This week you’re going to learn how to start a conversation in Portuguese. My intention is to make the lesson as easy as possible. I put the phonetics for everything word in Portuguese I use in the lesson, so everyone is going to be able to read and speak as well. Soon I’ll post the real conversation in mp3 and maybe some videos as well.

This is a conversation between an American man and Brazilian woman, the conversation takes place in Brazil.

Bom dia senhor means Good morning sir
[bõd'ia] [señ'or] - phonetic for the text above

Como você está ? means How are you?
[k'omu] [vos'e] ['Ɛstə] - phonetic for the text above

Muito bem, obrigado means I’m good, thanks
[m'ujtu] [b'ẽj], [obrig'adu] - phonetic for the text above

Você fala português? means Do you speak Portuguese?
[vos'e] [f'alə] [portug'es]? - phonetic for the text above

Um pouco, eu ainda estou aprendendo means A little, I’m still learning
['u] [p'owku], ['ew] [a'ĩdə] [estow] [aprẽdẽdu] - phonetic for the text above

Voce é americano? means Are you american?
[vos'e] [Ɛ] [amerik'ʌnu] - phonetic for the text above

Sim means Yes
[s'ĩ] - phonetic for the text above

Você fala muito bem o português means You speak portuguese very well
[vos'e] [f'alə] [m'ujtu] [b'ẽj] [ɔ] [portug'es] - phonetic for the text above

Obrigado means Thanks
[obrig'adu] - phonetic for the text above

Hope everybody understood the lesson, wait for more next week.

According to Central Bank (Banco Central) the results of this Monday was the best of all time since the history series was created in 1947. The results were of US$ 3,083 billions breaking the record of foreign investment in the first period in Brazil.

On the Year to Date numbers the value is US$ 8,799 billions, being the best for the first trimester as well.

Just to reinforce the idea, Brazilian law gives the same protection and guarantees to foreign capital investments that it gives to investments made by Brazilian nationals. So don’t worry if you’re thinking of invest money in Brazil.

Brazilian waxing refers to a removal of almost everything, front to back except for a thin strip of hair on the pubis. An extreme form of bikini waxing, it involves a complete removal of hair from the buttocks and adjacent to the anus, perineum and vulva (labia majora and mons pubis). Waxes that completely remove the pubic hair are known as a full Brazilian wax, full Bikini wax, Hollywood wax or the Sphinx. While mainly associated with females, genital waxing also has a male clientèle.

In spite of the name, Brazilian waxing is not particularly popular in Brazil, where it is considered extreme. There is no name or nickname for Brazilian waxing in Brazil, where it is simply referred to as “removing all the hair”, or as “complete groin”. The waxing style which leaves a small strip of hair is known in Brazil as cavado, a word that means “to miss peripheral material” and is also applied to small bikinis. In Brazilian Portuguese, “to wax” is depilar, which means “to remove hair” regardless of the method.

This is a type of psycholinguistic test that poses some difficulty because the portion of the brain that handles language has the conflicting tasks of verbalizing the color of the written words while ignoring the meaning of words representing colors.

In this test DO NOT READ the words, say aloud the COLOR of each word.

Not even 50% of the people who try that can read it right at the first time. Please don’t kill yourself if you can’t read it.

The right part of the brain tries to say the color but the left part of the brain insist on reading the name.

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