Once in a while. Portuguese does a lot with the word . It’s important to get up-to-speed on the way vez is used. Almost… none of it is intuitive – you need to memorize these. Think about how English uses time and once to say different things: The time of my life. Once upon a…

In English when we are talking about seating in an airplane, or a theater we just use the word seat. But when you want… to talk about assigned seating in Portuguese, there is a special word that you need to use: o assento. Whenever it’s a reserved seat situation it’s called um assento. Qual é…

You can safely use the letter s to make words into the plural, but not always. When forming the portuguese plural for M and… ÃO endings, you have to follow the rules. For words that end in an m, replace the m with an ns. Like this: a bagagem > Quantas bagagens o senhor tem?…

Brazil recently had a very big scandal in which – for the first time, high-level politicians were convicted and actually imprisoned. Imprisoned! It’s a… big deal. The scandal made international news and is referred to as the mensalão scandal. Aside form the sociopolitical aspects of this, the word itself: mensalão …is very, very interesting. In…