Category Archives: Grammar

Pop Quiz

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Lauren

I took a Portuguese placement exam recently, and it was full of multiple choice questions like this: Eu estou ______ português. a) estudo b) estudar c) estudando d) estuda Puta, please. As long as we are going to maintain the … Continue reading →

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Through the looking glass: the deep grammar of everyday Portuguese

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Lauren

Being here in Bahía, working as part of a large team, has made me realize how much of my past language study was really a solitary endeavor, cut off from the living language. At home, I feel starved of exposure … Continue reading →

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Te ligo!

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Lauren

While I’m in Salvador, I’d like to do a few posts on the language that I’m hearing and the things that I’m picking up on during my second trip to Brasil. And one thing that I’ve been hearing everywhere is … Continue reading →

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Making your Portuguese flow

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Lauren

À proposito… (By the way,) Aconteça o que acontecer… (Whatever happens,) De qualquer forma… (In any case,) Using short connecting phrases like these really goes a long way towards enriching your speech by connecting one thought to the next and … Continue reading →

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A Linguistic Dissection

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Lauren

So, I came across this sentence today in a book on rural development in Brazil: A pesquisa de Willems é fonte importante de referências para que se compreendam as principais características socioeconômicas e culturais da communidade rural de Cunha, na … Continue reading →

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