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Hi all. I'm a Brazilian Systems Engineer who speaks english and portuguese and wants to learn french. I'm also available for some conversations in portuguese for those of you learning my native language :)
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    Some violent reactions just happened in front of Sao Paulo's mayor office. Violent demonstrators (probably less than 5% of demonstrators) just tried to take it over but the police stopped them. It's estimated that 50 thousand demonstrators are on the streets right now.
    I'm really curious about how things will be tomorrow: lots of demonstrations are planned to happen during Brazil's match, even inside the stadium.  

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    June 18, 2013
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    June 18, 2013
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    Na parte B, estão expressões utilizadas na língua portuguesa. Neste exercício, estas expressões estão fora de ordem, e vc precisa criar a relação correta. Por exemplo: 2. devagar + j = "Devagar se vai ao longe", o que significa algo como "tenha paciência", "Be patient, you'll get to your objectives sooner or later". 10. + a = "Mais vale um pássaro na mão que dois a voar". Significa "Você já tem o que é preciso, não arrisque perder o que tem para tentar conseguir mais.", "You already have what you need - do not risk losing it just for getting a few more" Todas são expressões conhecidas e usadas diariamente.
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    June 18, 2013
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    June 12, 2013
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    Examples for "ainda": 1)"Eu ainda não terminei meus exercícios." That implies that the speaker hasn't finished his exercises yet. 2) "Eu ainda acredito" That means "I still believe", "I keep believing" An example for "já": "Eu já terminei meus exercícios." That implies that the speaker has already finished his exercises. Hope that helps.
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    June 12, 2013
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    I think Lucas has depicted most of the commonly used expressions in a very good way. We could go deeper and start exploring expressions related to each region in Brazil - as this is a continental area country, we have lots of different expressions depending on where you are - even expressions written and spoken the same way but with totally opposite meanings. Example: "fodido". That could mean "very good" or "very bad", depending on the region of the country. Plese do not use that expression everywhere. That is a slang, sometimes offensive. "Sua bicicleta é fodida" could mean "sua bicicleta é excelente" or "sua bicicleta é um lixo".

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    June 11, 2013
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    The umbiguity seems to be in that context on purpose as this expression has the two possible meanings as explained by Cupcake.
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    June 11, 2013
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    It's the same as saying "Good bye", "Bye bye".
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    June 11, 2013
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