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As a foreigner whose first language isn’t Portuguese, it’s easier to visit the more touristic areas as the likelihood to find people and staff at the establishments who speak English is bigger. Granted that visiting the most popular places in Portugal is a great experience to have in order to know more about the culture (…)
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It’s true that the Portuguese that is spoken in Brazil originated from Portugal, however, centuries passed and the language evolved since then in different ways depending on the country and its culture. You can rest assure that, if you learn a variant of Portuguese and become fluent in it you can still understand the other (…)
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When we think of Portuguese traditional music, we immediately think of fado. However, despite fado actually being a remarkable genre of music with several variations that can be heard from North to South of Portugal, there are other traditional music that don’t fall much behind fado. In fact, when it comes to music, Portugal is (…)
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