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10 unusual facts about Brazilian Portuguese


AutoCAD

AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD LT 2014 are available for English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Brazilian Portuguese.

Center for Marine Studies

The Center for Marine Studies (Portuguese: Centro de Estudos do Mar, CEM) is a satellite campus and marine research station of the Federal University of Paraná (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR), located in the municipality of Pontal do Paraná, Brazil.

ESPN Latin America

It is adapted to the demands of Spanish-speaking viewers, who tend to prefer football and Hispanic baseball players to the more Anglo-centric programming or athletes and Portuguese-speaking viewers who also tend to prefer football and prefer other popular sports in Brazil like basketball, futsal and volleyball.

Estudio Livre

Estudiolivre is unique as a collaborative Brazilian Portuguese speaking network, which researches and develops experimental and professional software livre for multimedia production.

James Geary

The World in a Phrase has also been published in Brazilian Portuguese — as O Mundo em una Frase — as well as Korean.

Jeremy Wade

He is also fluent in Portuguese, which he studied during the many years he spent fishing in Brazil.

Musician Wren

--Infonatura Rangemap--> In Portuguese it is known as Uirapuru or many other variants of this name, all based on the Tupi wirapu 'ru.

Priscila Machado

Supporters of other candidates, outraged by the victory of Miss Rio Grande do Sul, shouted insults against the winner, such as "peladona" (naked) and "marmelada" (a term used in Brazilian Portuguese to refer to a situation where someone cheats in a game or vote).

Seven-coloured Tanager

It resembles the overall greener Green-headed Tanager; a species confusingly known as the Seven-coloured Tanager (saíra-sete-cores) in Portuguese.

Tibouchina heteromalla

Tibouchina heteromalla, known by the common names silverleafed princess flower in English and quaresmeira in Brazilian Portuguese, is a species of evergreen flowering plant in the genus Tibouchina of the family Melastomataceae.


Chrysopogon aciculatus

Common names include amorseco (Spanish, "dry love") (not to be confused with the amor seco tree, Alchornea glandulosa), lesser spear grass, Mackie's pest, pilipiliula, and grama-amorosa (Brazilian Portuguese).

Conectiva

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Garua

In Brazilian Portuguese, the word garoa refers to the same, particularly around São Paulo, where it is deemed as a characteristic feature of local weather.

Goodnight Moon

The book has been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Catalan, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Korean and Hmong.

Sarará

The second most common non-Portuguese European group in Colonial Brazil were the French, with its cultural influence, represented by things such as the French artistic mission, that can be seen up to this day, with the greater number loanwords into Brazilian Portuguese coming from the French language.