Comments on: Why I love Brazilians (& Br. Portuguese)

By: Sr. Lipeh Gustavo

Sr. Lipeh Gustavo — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:47:00 +0000

I’m Brazilian ( from Curityba, South ) and I love read about the my country, good job!Just a tip : The most pop football teams: São Paulo, Flamengo, Santos Corinthians.

By: Mariangela Proença

Mariangela Proença — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:35:00 +0000

Oi Benny,
Amei, sou brasileira e fico muito feliz em saber que você gosta do meu país. Adoro viajar também e conhecer outras culturas, é realmente incrível.Parabéns pelo texto.beijos
Mari

By: Benny Lewis

Benny Lewis — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:06:00 +0000

Não consegui ir pra Parana… e gosto de tantas cidades – não tenho favorita!

By: Benny Lewis

Benny Lewis — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:00:00 +0000

Here’s some Irish culture fi3m.com/fleadh
Glad you enjoyed the post!

By: Rachel Nishioka

Rachel Nishioka — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:15:00 +0000

Desejo muito sucesso a você e, como brasileira, fico muito feliz em saber desse seu carinho por nós. Estou fazendo um intercâmbio cultural e, atualmente, moro nos EUA (aperfeiçoando o inglês!)…estou morrendo de saudades do meu país. Ler seu texto acalmou um pouco meu coração!

By: Dolores Mitchell

Dolores Mitchell — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:06:00 +0000

Excellent write up on Brazil!

By: maggie flinn

maggie flinn — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:12:00 +0000

I actually live in a Brazilian community in the Seattle area. I have focused more on helping the Brazilians speak and understand English rather than learning the language but have picked up quite a bit from listening for familiar words to get the idea of a conversation. What surprised me is the similarities to English in the written language but different pronunciation. They are beautiful, strong, hardworking people. I would say about 80% are in the category of HOT!!!

By: Aline Oliveira

Aline Oliveira — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:02:00 +0000

P.S Why a picture with a bunch of Gremistas? Don’t you know Corinthians won the Brazilian Soccer League this year??? hahaha

By: Aline Oliveira

Aline Oliveira — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:59:00 +0000

Hey!!!! So nice to hear something good about us, and above all someone who respects our culture and love so much our language.
Nowadays, I’m living in USA but I do miss my country…I miss my every sunday soccer match, my friends hugs, my food…
I appreciated so much what you said about the brazilian girls, it’s something I really hate to be through here in USA. Everytime I say I’m brazilian, people change the way they look at you, and people here I mean men. As you just wrote, we’re friendly and warm people. Unfortunately we’re misunderstood when when smile, give a hug or kiss the cheeks.
And we don’t live in trees…I loved it!!!
Hope you can learn brazilian portuguese the way you expect to, I just want to know what’s the accent you want to speak br portuguese: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul ( my favourite, though I’m from São Paulo), Bahia?
Muito obrigada pelo artigo e por apreciar tanto assim nossa cultura!!!

By: Beatriz Morgado

Beatriz Morgado — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:49:00 +0000

Adorei Obrigada pelas lindas palavras e seja sempre muito bem-vindo no nosso país!
Loved it! Thanks for these beautiful words and you will be always more than welcome in our country!

By: Karina

Karina — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:18:00 +0000

Hey, I’m a Brazilian girl and I loved your post!!!
I agree, Brazil is amazing and I love there!!!! The people is friendly and you’ll never be alone!!! Hahaha

Beijos lol

By: Bahia

Bahia — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:07:00 +0000

Cara, realmente o seu site me comoveu. Ja lí em outros sites pessoas que falam bem do Brasil, mas voce passou da conta. Isto é muito bom. Sou brasileiro e passei a amar ainda mais o meu país, pela visão dos estrangeiros. Tenho um amigo alemão, Karlos, que é louco pelo Brasil, tanto que no curso de medicina, resolveu fazer residencia medica aqui no Brasil, na Bahia.
Outro amigo meu alemão rodou o mundo e parou na Ilha de Itaparica e nao saiu mais. Tenho um amigo Americano que veio para o Brasil, criticou e depois nao largou mais o osso. Tenho dois amigos italianos que vieram passar ferias e ainda nao voltaram para Italia. Até hoje lá fora na Europa só vejo os Portugueses falarem mal do Brasil com muita convicção. Criticam em sites e blogs e tentam a todo custo nos inferiorizar. Aí conheci seu site e voce fez até agora os melhores elogios ao Brasil. Talvez voce não saiba, mas voce já é um pouco brasileiro também.

By: Pri

Pri — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:52:00 +0000

Awwwnn you are so nice!!! I think that we Brazilians just try to live our lifes the best way we can! We do have problems yes, but I rather face them with a smile face!! a frowny face it only get you wrinkles!!
I wish you all the best, and when you come back to Brazil, make sure to stop by Curitiba – PR hehe

Beijos

By: brad

brad — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:38:00 +0000

I recently fell in love with Brazil and know exactly what you are talking about. Thank you for putting my sentiments into words. Great article and points!

By: Samid Buriel

Samid Buriel — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:24:00 +0000

Aproveite também visite nossa grande cidade: Recife – Pernambuco
Isso claro se não tiver visitado

By: Benny Lewis

Benny Lewis — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:54:00 +0000

Depends on your OS, but the easiest way by far is to just set your keyboard to Spanish or Portuguese and you’ll have those accents. It’s not like you’ll NOT be able to write a character for English.

Best of luck with Portuguese!

By: C Van Munster

C Van Munster — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:35:00 +0000

Tks for your discription about Brazil and natives. Very true and kind of you.

By: Matt Horne

Matt Horne — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:30:00 +0000

Wow you’re incredibly annoying.

The grass is always greener on the other side.
You view other countries as being better because of your ideals.
However those from other countries and cultures won’t see things the same way.

- The UK has a terrible rate for teen pregnancy.
- Binge-drinking has become a national past-time.
- The weather is terrible, and the lack of daylight in Winter is unbearable.
- The national health service and the police are so bogged down with paper work that even simple tasks seem to take them forever to process.
- Food, especially meat, is expensive.
- The people (though not rude) are generally fairly cold/distant.
- In my experience many of the people that claim benefits from the government don’t genuinely deserve it.
etc

You may not have a problem with the points I brought up. Similarly, I don’t really have issues with some of the points you brought up.

Your insistence that your opinions are fact is incredibly arrogant, and your attempt to piss on a guy’s positive experience just makes you look like a complete dick.
Good enough reasons to call you immature.

By: Matt Horne

Matt Horne — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:06:00 +0000

I’ve been dating a Brazilian girl for two years (long distance), and spent a total of 3 months there.

(But unfortunately before I found your site, and so I didn’t make enough of an effort to speak the language).

I relate completely to your experience there. I felt more at home in Brazil than I do in the UK!
Their churrasco alone is enough to make me want to visit again, and back at home I need my occasional beans and rice fix.

As for learning the language, I’ve been attempting to speak more (not a whole lot, but at least something) and I’ve progressed so much faster than before. I’m gradually learning to put my vocabulary from reading books, to practical use.
Learning by having a go really is the best way to learn to speak a language.

Thanks for the inspiration to get over my fear of talking in a foreign language

Also, a quick question.
Do you know of a good way for typing accented characters using a UK keyboard?

By: Matt Horne

Matt Horne — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:06:00 +0000

I’ve been dating a Brazilian girl for two years (long distance), and spent a total of 3 months there.

(But unfortunately before I found your site, and so I didn’t make enough of an effort to speak the language).

Thanks for the inspiration to get over my fear of talking in a foreign language

Also, a quick question.
Do you know of a good way for typing accented characters using a UK keyboard?