The Brazilian football confederation (CBF) announced this Monday that Brazilian National Team will have two friendly matches in the United States. The first match will be on May 31 in Seattle against Canada. Six days later, the opponent will be Venezuela, in Boston.

These are the only matches Brazil will play before the qualifies for 2010 World Cup, in June.

On May 14, Brazil will face Paraguay in Asunción-Paraguay, while on May 18 will receive Argentina, in Belo Horizonte-Brazil.

For who is interested in buy tickets to the matches in USA check out the links below:

Brazil vs Canada
Qwest Field, Seattle, WA
Sat, May 31, 2008 07:30 PM

Brazil vs Venezuela
Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA
Fri, Jun 6, 2008 06:30 PM

Have you ever talked to someone and had the impression that the person was thinking about something else?

This phenomenon happens all the time. The human being’s brain is always trying to process more than one type of information at the same time. Read this conversation and understand the process:

- Your friend call you and ask you to do him a favor

- You answer him that you’re sick and you can’t do this time.

- It was like if he wasn’t listening to you and say don’t worry this task is gonna take you just a little bit.

- You get back at him and say “I’d do if I weren’t sick” and for some reason his brain is blocked and don’t understand the message.

- Then he ask you one more time, “hey can you do the favor or not”?

- You just say “NO” and he gets mad because in his opinion you don’t want to help him.

The brain is so focused in achieve the goal that sometimes it blocks information not related to the main goal.

I was surfing the internet the other day and I found this interesting video of famous people trying to speak portuguese in interviews. The funniest one is Britney Spears trying to say “Altas horas”, a TV Show presented by Serginho groysman. Check out the video:

No wonder that Ferrari’s Felipe Massa loves Istanbul Park. On Sunday afternoon he owned the place, and nobody seriously looked like challenging him as he sped to his hat-trick of victories here to move into joint second in the driver standings.

Sure, Lewis Hamilton pulled what seemed a brilliant passing move on him for the lead on the 24th lap, but it transpired that the Englishman was on a three-stop strategy for McLaren, and soon the way was clear again for Massa as Hamilton stopped to refuel and retain hard tyres on the 32nd lap.

Hamilton had sufficient in hand over Kimi Raikkonen, however, to keep the Finn in third place and to reduce his championship points lead to seven as they sped to the line 3.7s adrift of Massa, and separated by only four-tenths of second. The MP4-23 had been sweet on the harder Bridgestones, but still clearly didn’t like the softer rubber that Hamilton had to don for his final 13-lap stint.

Into fourth and fifth places came the BMW Saubers of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld, which lacked the sheer pace to play anything other than leading supporting roles this time out.

Guest post by Raquel Prado.

There are many people who want to learn a new language to improve their life but many of them don’t achieve this goal. I have many friends who want to learn English, but they never have the compromise to reserve time for that matter.

It’s good to keep in mind that time flies, no matter what. My conception is the quicker you get it over with, the quicker you’re free to do whatever you please. For example, when moving to a foreign country, the very first thing to do is to learn the language spoke in the country, without which you’re life can become rather difficult.

I’ve been a U.S. resident for the past 4 years. And that was my first goal to accomplish in here. And so I did. One week after my arrival in the states, I signed up for English classes. It is certainly far from perfect, but allows me to communicate very well. I still have an accent, but that’s just something I need to work on.
I know it’s a lot easier said than done and many people choose not to follow it. Many come to U.S. looking for better lives and often forget the need to adapt into the countries culture in order to be successful. And of course there are people who built an empire without even knowing how to speak a little English. There’s an exception to every rule.

Anything is possible if you’re dedicated and hard-worker, as well as organized, which is very important for someone learning a new language. Only 30 minutes a day in a year can lead one to great improvement. Maybe a little less TV and a little more reading.

Next article on how to learn a new language, we’ll talk about some very interesting audio lessons for those who lack the time to go to school.