You probably don't need another reason to go to Brazil (gorgeous beaches, vibrant cities, wonderfully friendly locals, and the sheer craziness of Carnival). But if you were not already aware, Brazil ...

In native Portuguese there is no k, w, or y, although they appear in imported words, and under the recent spelling reform have become official letters of the Portuguese alphabet. Pronunciation in ...

Here's a fact: Some foreign words just really don't have equivalents in other languages. It's too bad -- people who don't speak the native tongue may never fully know the true meaning of these often ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, October 2. A few months ago, we provided our readers with some essential Portuguese words that all swimmers should know as they gear up for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Today, we’re ...

One of my favourite words in Portuguese is saudade which means 'miss' eg. in the phrase 'I miss you'. It describes a feeling of nostalgia, a longing for a person (or a thing) that is distant now, ...

Learn to spot these false cognates as soccer’s biggest party, the World Cup, begins. No, not a crack, and certainly not crack cocaine. A “craque” is a soccer star, the ace that you want in your ...