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Did
you know that there are lots of
languages in Brazil? Language, my culture elements, isn’t a
material element because you don’t touch it. You use it to talk with
other people. Are you more curious about language? Language is like a
way of talking only that language is from a place. Talking with people
in a specific way, communicating with others, exchange ideas, feelings,
emotions, these are all language. Language helps use communicate with
others; and understand others so we can have a better time understanding
what others are trying to tell us.
In Brazil we speak many languages and write them in different ways. There are many languages used in Brazil like Portuguese, French and some English. But English is taught in some private schools. There are some immigrants from Japan and Korea which means Japanese and Korean languages are also here in Brazil. Yet, there are over 50 languages used in Brazil because of the Indian languages. The main Indian languages are: Gê, Carib, Arawak and Tupi Guarani.
The
way of talking is different from the talking way from Portugal, the
rules are different. By the way, the sound of Portuguese from Portugal
is different from Brazil. In Portugal the accent is different. The sound
from Brazil is softer than the one from Portugal because lots of African
slaves were brought in to Brazil that they changed a little of the
language. The Italians that immigrated to Brazil also changed a little
of the language. As an example, “Biscoito” (cookie) in Brazil sounds
like “bees-cOy-tu”. In Portugal, “Biscoito” sounds like “beesh-cOiy-too”.
Some Brazilians may understand Portuguese from Portugal but the words
are very different. As an example, “água-viva” (jellyfish) in Brazil
it’s like that. In Portugal, it is “alforreca, medusa and água-viva”. In
Rio de Janeiro, a city in Brazil, most of the people who live there talk
with an accent, for an example: “onibus” (bus) in São Paulo sounds like
“O-nee-buss”. In Rio, they say “O-nee-bush”. They say the letter “s” in
a sound like “sh”.
In Brazil we speak many languages; most of them are the Indian languages.
--AK