Throughout the 20th century, numerous efforts were made to establish common spelling in all Portuguese-speaking countries. The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 was ratified by Brazil in 2004 and implemented in 2009. After that, the Government allowed for a 6-year transition period where both spellings could exist within Portugal and this was finally enforced […]
Brazilian Portuguese: what’s the difference after all?
One of the most common misconceptions about languages is about language variants and how transferable they are. Language variants are the varieties of a language that develop in a specific place, such as US and UK English, and Brazilian and European Portuguese. Businesses sometimes choose one variety of Portuguese to speak to Portuguese speakers around […]
5 Gifts for the Portugal Lover in Your Life
Whenever I say I come from Portugal, I immediately see a light in people’s eyes. Living in a foreign country, I often come across people who have a trip to Portugal on their bucket list or have some amazing memories of their last visit and can’t wait to go back and delve deeper. It’s not […]
What the heck is European Portuguese?
European or Iberian Portuguese, or Portuguese from Portugal: these are the ways we can refer to the native language of Portugal. Just like Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian, Portuguese is a Romance Language, which means it evolved from Vulgar Latin, after the Romans arrived on the Iberian Peninsula bringing the Latin language with them. Even […]