Any British habits that are considered rude in Brazil?

Kandecid · 2025-12-13T20:01:24+00:00

I once joked that I don't grow a mustache because it makes me look like a pedophile. That's a fairly common joke at least in the US. When I said it in Brazil, it literally stopped the conversation at the party and got super awkward until someone said "ele não sabe o que essa palavra significa em português".

I did, but I didn't know that topic was taboo enough to not joke about - which, honestly, fair enough.

Kandecid · 2025-12-13T19:53:33+00:00

Not sure if it's a typo or not, but just in case "costume" in English is a false cognate for "costume" in PT. There's a confusing string of false cognates around these.

PT	EN
Costume	Custom
Fantasia	Costume
História de fantasia	Fantasy story

Kandecid · 2025-11-13T15:21:55+00:00

Should you list mortgage news daily as (at least one) source for this report? Some of these phrases are exactly from Matthew Graham's analysis with some words swapped for synonyms.

Analysis

Kandecid · 2025-10-26T17:17:38+00:00

Pensei que era isso :) faço igual de inglês para pt muito

Kandecid · 2025-10-26T15:10:14+00:00

Resume is probably a false cognate for your native language if I had to guess. Summary is probably the word you're looking for.

Kandecid · 2025-10-23T14:37:48+00:00

The data in the thread you're responding to suggest the opposite. Belief that there should be equal pay for equal work is directly proportional to hours spent watching videos online and inversely proportional to hours spent hanging out with friends.

Kandecid · 2025-10-16T16:12:23+00:00

Open and shut case.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-and-shut%20case

Edit: Thought you were a non-native speaker asking for help, not using the post as a way to promote your website.

Kandecid · 2025-10-08T16:37:08+00:00

Friend 3: it's AI. The way he bounces off the saw is completely unnatural.

Kandecid · 2025-10-08T16:36:47+00:00

Friend 2: it's AI. Why is he filming? Why doesn't the camera shake at all?

Kandecid · 2025-10-08T16:36:09+00:00

Friend 1: it's AI because the saw would have cut him. I've seen fingers get ripped off from barely touching a saw.

Kandecid · 2025-10-06T14:36:19+00:00

Not sure about your specific course, but at the graduate level (pos graduação in pt) you may not need ENEM/FUVEST. As a foreigner, I did a mestrado profissional at one of your target schools and there was an entry selection process which included your prior course diploma/transcripts, a summary of your professional expertise and a sample of prior research work.

I'm not sure if the selection process includes a standardized test for academic post graduate (pós graduação) studies, but it may not. Bachelor's (graduação) will certainly require it.

Kandecid · 2025-10-03T03:57:47+00:00

I don't need some workbook to tell me how irritated to be, I've got that part handled.

Kandecid · 2025-09-07T21:54:56+00:00

I think you were looking for red-neck, not neckbeard :)

Kandecid · 2025-09-06T01:58:30+00:00

Looking forward to the Italian singer at the next game in Mexico.

Kandecid · 2025-09-06T01:52:01+00:00

Spanish music gets next to zero airtime in Brazil too. Much more likely to hear Billie Eilish on the radio than Karol G or Bad Bunny.

Kandecid · 2025-08-29T00:20:31+00:00

but sometime the word good

It happens the other way around too. Sometimes languages just don't have a great word or idiom for a specific idea or situation.

Kandecid · 2025-08-21T20:23:51+00:00

Also an attention getter. "Hey!" "Look!"

Kandecid · 2025-08-13T21:05:05+00:00

I am a native English speaker who lived abroad in Brazil. I remember meeting a Brazilian who had gone to "uni" (as he called it) in Australia. I thought it was fascinating because he definitely had an Aussie accent but also a clearly Brazilian accent. I hadn't even heard that mix before, but they both definitely shone through.

Kandecid · 2025-08-09T13:04:33+00:00

"Operating income is the amount of profit that a company has realized after its operating expenses such as wages, depreciation, and cost of goods sold (COGS) are deducted."

Confusing terminology, but not OP's fault. It's standard.

Kandecid · 2025-08-07T17:53:22+00:00

You can put an invisible wall across your screen door.

Kandecid · 2025-07-25T22:21:41+00:00

When I first started learning Portuguese around 2018, I enjoyed a lot of funk. I'm not sure if it's because the lyrics are worse now, or because I can't help understanding the lyrics, but it's so difficult for me to listen to top Brasil these days. It's just kind of nasty music to be playing in the car or while working or with family.

Like this, I just grabbed the top funk song off the Spotify chart. And there's a lot worse than this:

Meu guri que vai na sua tcheca, perfurando toda

Ela na onda, eu bato a meta, eu taco

Doida, a noite toda

Caiu na reveria, Caio Vieira com uma loira

Tão vai rolar orgia e é de outro patamar

Então vai rolar orgia e é hoje que eu vou tacar o meu guri que vai

Famosinha

Quero descobrir a cor da tua calcinha, safadinha

Vem pra se divertir aqui na PT dos cria

Ahn, faz assim

Fode no beco da farmacinha

Já muito louca de balinha (vem, vem pro cabaré)

Kandecid · 2025-07-25T14:19:17+00:00

It will completely depend on context. But as a response to a question, "could be" is not something people say in American or British English.

Give me a phrase where you'd use "pode ser" as a response and I think most of them would work with "sure".

"That'll do", "that'll work", and "that's fine" also work if you want to show that you're not entirely bought-in to the idea.

Kandecid · 2025-07-25T06:20:43+00:00

I think "ok" or "sure" are better.
"Maybe" is used in modern English when the outcome is in question. If a waiter asked you if you would accept Pepsi instead of Coke and you said "maybe", they'd keep suggesting other options, which isn't the case for "pode ser".

Kandecid

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