Portuguese – For Reading Addicts

Word of the Day

November 4, 2020

Word of the Day – Saudade

Saudade (noun) (Portuguese) sow-da-da A feeling of absence. A profoundly melancholic longing for something that…

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Language Literature

March 2, 2017

Did a 19th Century Phrasebook Inspire Monty Python?

In the 1800s a Portuguese man named Pedro Carolino gave a brave attempt to write a…

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Language

May 17, 2015

15 Words That Don’t Translate Into English

The English language contains over a million words so it seems hard to believe that…

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