Perhaps one of the most common misconceptions about Brazil is that Brazilians speak
Spanish and a sure fire way to get off on the wrong foot in Brazil is to assume
just this and start jabbering away in your best GCSE Espanhol to that seemingly
friendly...
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Perhaps one of the most common misconceptions about Brazil is that Brazilians speak
Spanish and a sure fire way to get off on the wrong foot in Brazil is to assume
just this and start jabbering away in your best GCSE Espanhol to that seemingly
friendly immigration officer.
They may be able to understand what you say, but that
doesn?t mean that they will be pleased, or grant you with the stamp in your
passport you had been hoping for.
Brazilians will joke that foreigners will go as far as to believe that Buenos Aires
is the capital of Brazil.
However, when you take into account that the rivalry
between Brazil and Argentina is akin to that between France and England, you begin
to realize that this is in fact no laughing matter.
Many people travel to Latin America with a smattering of Spanish and find that this
suffices to meet their needs.
Portuguese is a language the majority of foreign
visitors have no former knowledge of and to the untrained ear it can sound
indecipherable, even
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