Brazilian Portuguese
South American tongue
Brazilian Portuguese is the variety of Portuguese spoken in Brazil, distinguished from European Portuguese by differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
Brazilian speakers tend toward open vowels and clearer consonants, making it sound more melodic to many ears.
Some words differ entirely: Brazilians say trem for train while the Portuguese say comboio.
With over 200 million speakers, Brazilian Portuguese dominates the language numerically and culturally through music, television, and film.
Afro-Brazilian celebratory dance
- bossa novaLyrical Brazilian jazz-samba blend
- capoeiraBrazilian martial dance form
- feijoadaSmoked meat bean stew
- futebolFootball in Portuguese
telenovela · cachaça · caipirinha · açaí · novela · churrasco · favela
Greek warrior women
- Rio de JaneiroBrazilian coastal metropolis
- São PauloBrazilian economic capital
- BahiaBrazilian coastal state
- Iguazu FallsVast Argentine-Brazilian cataract system
Copacabana · Ipanema · Christ the Redeemer · rainforest · northeastern · southern · coastal · equatorial
Smooth linguistic command
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- vocabularyOne's word collection
idioms · syntax · phonetics · dialects · intonation · diminutives · gerund · subjunctive
Afro-Brazilian celebratory dance
- bossa novaLyrical Brazilian jazz-samba blend
- maracatuAfro-Brazilian ceremonial percussion tradition
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- percussionSound through impact
samba
Afro-Brazilian celebratory dance
- bossa novaLyrical Brazilian jazz-samba blend
- capoeiraBrazilian martial dance form
- feijoadaSmoked meat bean stew
futebol · telenovela · cachaça · caipirinha · açaí · novela · churrasco · favela
Amazon
Greek warrior women
- Rio de JaneiroBrazilian coastal metropolis
- São PauloBrazilian economic capital
- BahiaBrazilian coastal state
Iguazu Falls · Copacabana · Ipanema · Christ the Redeemer · rainforest · northeastern · southern · coastal · equatorial · biodiversity
fluency
Smooth linguistic command
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- conjugationVerb form variation system
vocabulary · idioms · syntax · phonetics · dialects · intonation · diminutives · gerund · subjunctive · slang
samba
Afro-Brazilian celebratory dance
- bossa novaLyrical Brazilian jazz-samba blend
- maracatuAfro-Brazilian ceremonial percussion tradition
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- Portuguese varietiesAzorean
- languagesEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, German, French
- BrazilRio, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Amazon River
- Spanish/PortugueseSpanish, Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Basque
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- dialectsregional dialect, local dialect, patois, vernaculars, vernacular
Brazilian PortugueseMexican Spanish
North American Iberian dialect