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Kyle
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Mar 9, 2018
Great job, Magno. Your English is great. We were able to add a few new vocabulary words and expression and work out some pronunciation. The more you speak, the better you will get. See you next time.
Kyle
English
Feb 27, 2018
Great talking with you again, Magno. Your summery of the Ted Talk and your English in general is impressive. I'll be sending something new (and hopefully more difficult) tonight. See you next time!
Adam James
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Feb 24, 2018
Great to meet you Magno. You have a good knowledge of English, so I'm confident that your speaking will improve quite quickly with regular practice.
Kyle
English
Feb 23, 2018
It was great talking with you, Magno. Your English is very good, and as we discussed in class, you just need more opportunities to speak and build confidence. I'll be sending you some material and detailed instructions today through Skype. See you next time.
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  • Answered
    A Brazilian guy will have a good conversation with a Portuguese, but some words and expressions are different. For example: In Brazil we have the expression: Legal! (the same as cool! ) but in Portugal they use the expression: Fixe! We have some others differences but it is very hard to say exactly what is this differences. I know that presunto (ham) in Portugal is know as fiambre (Or something like that) but in Brazil just some elders could understand that. The accent is completely different and that is the easy way to identify if someone is from Portugal or Brazil. The way that we structure the sentence is different too. People from Portugal sounds like an old guy talking for a Brazilian because the way that they structure theirs sentences. Finally, I think in Brazil we have a great range of accent and someone from Fortaleza will sounds totally different from someone from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro while all the Portuguese seems to have the same accent (at least from a Brazilian point of view).
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    June 5, 2018
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    November 27, 2017
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    I think that is what we call "figura de linguagem". It happens mainly in written (text, books etc). It is a way to say something and given a deeper meaning to the sentence. Many authors use it a lot. In this sentence if the author had used the word "escuro" probably the sentence would not have caused the same impact as using the word "negro". But, as Aline said, both have the same meaning. When the author use the word "negro" give us the sensation that there was really really dark. He couldn't see absolutely nothing.
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    November 27, 2017
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  • Answered
    A diferença é bem sutil. Sabonete é utilizado no banho para lavar o próprio corpo e sabão é utilizado para lavar panelas e outros objetos. Sabonete: you use it in the bathroom to take a shower. Sabão: you use it to wash things like pan. You can use sabão to take a bath too, but you never would use sabonete to wash things .
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    November 25, 2017
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  • Commented

    Nice!  I had never thought about it. 

    And you can say cara meaning the same as dude too (sometimes we can say Cara, or we can say: Mano).

    I mean: "Dude, what happened here?"  we can say in portuguese like this:

    "Cara, o que aconteceu aqui?" or  "Mano, o que aconteceu aqui?"


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    November 22, 2017
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