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Brazil Spill
This is meant as a resource for learning tidbits about Brazilian culture, history, and everyday life.
Keep in mind that oral tradition, slang, and even food vary greatly from area to area. My personal area of "expertise" is from the point of view of someone from the state of Minas Gerais. I also have a YouTube account called PaddySnuffles where i translate songs from Portuguese to English. So check that out too! :)
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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
Reblog to increase sample size!
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Adventures in Librarian-ing
Today, while reading "Up, Up, Down" by Robert Munsch to a class of Grade 3s, I taught the kids how to say "Ouch!" in Portuguese (Ai!; pronounced AH-ee).
So for the rest of the story, every time a character said "Ow! Ouch! Ow! Ouch!" they'd replace it with "Ai! Ai! Ai!" in choreographed unison.
They started doing it entirely unplanned yet somehow unanimously.
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The Beast and the Bethany - Brazil
Beauty comes at a price. And no one knows that better than Ebenezer Tweezer, who has stayed beautiful for 511 years. How, you may wonder? Ebenezer simply has to feed the beast in the attic of his mansion. In return for meals of performing monkeys, statues of Winston Churchill, and the occasional cactus, Ebenezer gets potions that keep him young and beautiful, as well as other presents.
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The Brazil 1st world media doesn't show
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Salvador, Bahia
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais
Manaus, Amazonas
Recife, Pernambuco
Macapá, Amapá
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
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@howiethespacebiker Maned wolves are SUPER chill and shy. It wouldn't even come close if any adults were standing too close for comfort to the food.
This is why in Brazil we don't think of wolves as dangerous -- our only reference is the maned wolf, which is so gentle I was once able to feed a wild one by hand during a nature reserve event when I was 5.
All the grownups had to move away and a single wolf shily edged closer, gently took the meat, and ran back to the rest of the pack.
The only adults who could feed them by hand were he Franciscan monks that fed the wolves every night.
Maned wolf in Brazil
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...Brasil?
Vocab in Portuguese: Food (2/?)
Barbecue - Churrasco
Beans - Feijão
Beef - Bife
Bread - Pão
Cake - Bolo
Cheese - Queijo
Cheeseburger - Xisburger
Chicken - Frango (When in reference to the cooking or already cooked animal; the live animal is "galinha")
Egg - Ovo
Juice - Suco
Rice - Arroz
Noodles - Macarrão (instant noodles are called miojo)
Omelette - Omelete
Pancake - Panqueca
Pie - Torta
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Americans are taking this shit way too lightly. It should be at LEAST pre-trial jail if not worse.
Trump has never earned special treatment through good works, good will.
It's all due to threats of violence, tampering, and defamation. #WhiteNationalism
Detain this fascist traitor. Shut him up.
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Either that or a very confused seriema trying to figure out why its usual killing strategy for prey isn't working.
Follow for more ❤️
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Brazilian taxi drivers would definitely be on New Orleans' side
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
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This is most Brazilians on coffee.
Do we drink it a lot? Yes.
But this is why we need a lot.
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Vocab in Portuguese: Food (2/?)
Barbecue - Churrasco
Beans - Feijão
Beef - Bife
Bread - Pão
Cake - Bolo
Cheese - Queijo
Cheeseburger - Xisburger
Chicken - Frango (When in reference to the cooking or already cooked animal; the live animal is "galinha")
Egg - Ovo
Juice - Suco
Rice - Arroz
Noodles - Macarrão (instant noodles are called miojo)
Omelette - Omelete
Pancake - Panqueca
Pie - Torta
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@howiethespacebiker
Well, it is now because he legally added it to his name later on, but his birth name is Luiz Inácio da Silva.
So by North American standards, he should be referred to as President da Silva.
Me about non-Brazilians
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Me about non-Brazilians
#president lula#brazil#brazilian portuguese#portuguese#portuguese language#langblr#the real life of me#brazilian culture#portuguese langblr#world politics#they don't know
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While the maned wolf is a canine, it is not actually a wolf! They're their own unique thing!
Maned wolf in Brazil
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Fun fact about me
My great-grandfather was a journalist who first started in the industry as a typesetter when he was 12.
That is, his job was to put the letters in the correct order to print the newspaper, back when uppercase and lowercase letters were literally kept in the upper case and lower case.
Because of this, he knew a lot about typography.
His first official job as a journalist was to write a piece on... the sinking of the Titanic.
He worked at the same newspaper (Hoje em Dia, a major Brazilian newspaper) until the day he died at 102 years old. When he died, the newspaper added an entire section in the newspaper all about him to honour his work (he was also one of the oldest residents in our city, having lived there since it had barely been established).
For his 100th birthday, he asked for a computer so he wouldn't have to retype everything on the typewriter every time he had a typo.
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I love blend words (words made up by smooshing two words together).
They’re nearly always cute and/or entertaining:
Aborrescente - adolescente (teenager) + aborrecer (to annoy/to irritate) + aborrecido (grouchy, ill-tempered)
Adorkable - adorable + dork
Arabish - Arabic + English
Hinglish - Hindi + English
Mãeditora - mãe (mom) + editora (editor)
Mãetorista - mãe (mom) + motorista (driver)
Monicão* - Mônica (Monica) + cão (dog)
Portuglês - Português (Portuguese) + Inglês (English)
Portuglese - Portuguese + English
Portunhol - Português (Portuguese) + Espanhol (Spanish)
Spanglish - Spanish + English
Streetza** - street + pizza
Voluntold - volunteer + to be told [to do something]
* The name of a character from a famous Brazilian comic book series, who is a dog whose owner is named Mônica
** What my classmates and I dubbed the individual pizzas you could buy from street vendors in Santiago de Cuba when I lived there.
What are some good ones in your language? :)
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