When famous people try to speak Portuguese
Sometimes I am so sorry for what stars have to do to please their crowds. First, teen starlet Miley Cirus trying to sing in Portuguese. […]
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Learn Portuguese for free online
There are some 250 million Portuguese native speakers out there – can you communicate with them? It is is, indeed, a crowd: 190 million in […]
Slavery, according to Elza Soares
To remember the slavery days and celebrate the (official) abolition anniversary, a great but disturbing Elza Soares video clip, where she sings that “the cheapest […]
Musical families
A sample of the talent of the Caymmis, the Buarque de Hollandas, the Assads, the Camargo Marianos, the Velosos, the Gilbertos… The Velosos (Caetano, Bethânia […]
Sinatra sings the excesses of Brazilian coffee
No commodity says Brazil as much as coffee. This year, the country’s coffee exports should reach US$ 7 billion and the internal sales will be […]
Delicate bilro lace
In the early eighties, when the beautiful dunes of Canoa Quebrada, in the Northeastern state of Ceará, where still ignored by the masses and […]
“English as she is spoke” – the best Portuguese/English translation ever
“What news tell me? All hairs dresser are newsmonger” – a phrase that you could use to insult a barber. “It is a noise which […]
Easter in Nova Jerusalém
Since the sixties, the small town of Brejo de Deus, in the dry lands of the state of Pernambuco, promotes an Easter presentation depicting the […]
The best colection of 19th century Brazilian art
One of the greatest art museums in the country, Rio’s Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, just reopened after a three-year remodelling. Its Modern and Contemporary […]
Carlos Saldanha, the soul of Rio (the animation film)
Rio, the animation that just took in $40 million on its opening weekend (that is, last weekend) in the USA, after accumulating $168 million in […]