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When you’re learning Portuguese, one really fun way to practice is to read the best-selling books you want to read anyway, but in the language you are learning! How about reading The Hunger Games, “Os Jogos da Fome” in Portuguese!

Os Jogos da Fome – Livro I

Num futuro pós-apocalíptico, surge das cinzas do que foi a América do Norte Panem, uma nova nação governada por um regime totalitário que a partir da megalópole, Capitol, governa os doze Distritos com mão de ferro. Todos os Distritos estão obrigados a enviar anualmente dois adolescentes para participar nos Jogos da Fome – um espectáculo sangrento de combates mortais cujo lema é «matar ou morrer». No final, apenas um destes jovens escapará com vida… Katniss Everdeen é uma adolescente de dezasseis anos que se oferece para substituir a irmã mais nova nos Jogos, um acto de extrema coragem… Conseguirá Katniss conservar a sua vida e a sua humanidade? Um…

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March 22, 2012

The Development and Funding Alert is a publication of NOPA, Inc. and is provided as a service to the community with the purpose of educating and informing elected officials, municipalities, civic and non-profit organizations about fundraising and grant opportunities to support programs that empower and improve the lives of Portuguese-Americans.

Listen to ten people from different parts of the Lusosphere read the same sentence about Dom Sebastao I. Perfect for someone trying to learn Portuguese to speak with the 250 million people across the globe who use Portuguese as their primary language.

There are nine countries whose official language is Portuguese: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. East Timor

195 million in Brazil alone
10.5 million in Portugal
3 million emigrant diaspora outside of CPLP nations

There are more then 40 Portuguese Dialects. Native speakers can tell where someone is from by the way they speak. There are distinct differences between accents, even within regions. The following exercise will help train your ear to recognize the difference between 10 speakers, from different areas of 4 Portuguese language regions.

Angolan, Luanda
Azorean, Povoação
Northern Portuguese, Porto, Litoral
Central Portuguese, Coimbria
Portuguese, Oeiras, Lisbon
Carioca, Rio de Jeneiro
Central Federal, Brasilia
Paulista, Guarjá, São Paulo
Southern Brazilian, Curitaba, Paraná
Southern Brazilian, Rio Grande de Sur

CPLP nations have a combined area of about 10,772,000 square kilometers (4,159,000 sq mi). Portuguese Social News helps create a bridge among countries separated by great distances and on different continents. Celebrate the 5 May as the Lusophone Culture Day (Dia da Cultura Lusófona in Portuguese)

The Battle was a skirmish fought July 25, 1581 in the Bay of Salga, in the village of San Sebastian, Terceira, Azores, a landing force of Castilian. Portuguese forces, on behalf of D. Antony I, defended the island as opposed to personal union with Castile, in the context of the succession crisis of 1580.

Geo-political framework

As soon as Philip II of Castile found himself in quiet possession of the Kingdom of Portugal, completely routed his rival D. Antonio, Prior of Crato, whom she did not know the whereabouts for more bodies that make, first took care of his acclaim and recognition of Prince D. Diogo, his son, as heir to the Portuguese Crown. This act done with the ordinary ceremonies of the country, opened the Board of the States April 17, 1581, with the aim of establishing the guarantees of the Portuguese Crown and to publish the broad amnesty that had promised those involved in supporting the Prior of Crato.

Posted amnesty, they saw the Portuguese, with great sorrow that, apart from not being generally included many provisions artful. And despite complaining about it, the King openly refused to change them, saying they never forgive D. Antony and the Count of Vimioso, the Bishop of Guarda (son of the Earl of Vimioso), and others, in number fifty-two people. Regarding the other graces required by Portuguese prosecutors, very few granted, denying some openly, and responding to others with doubtful hopes, than not both him and his ministers to impute guilt.

Undo the State Board, the King Philip went to Lisbon and Almada reaching, learned of the sick he was Terceira about it, because the island's population had declined to accept Ambrose de Aguiar Coutinho who had been sent by governor.

In consequence of these stories, just ordered the…

"The issue of who in America is Hispanic is unclear. Is it merely a description of conveniences for political expedience or is it a group of true affinity (Rodriguez, 2002)? The issue of who is Hispanic is particularly important to Portuguese-Americans because as argued in the blog posted on the Portuguese Foundations website PORTUGUESE-AMERICANS: THE LOST HISPANICS share all of their demographics and origins with traditional Hispanics are not often recognized as such. While America’s dictionary of record defines Hispanic as “the people, speech, or culture of Spain, Spain and Portugal, or Latin America (Gove, 1993),”and as a scholarly field, Portuguese are included as Hispanic (Hispanic Research Journal, 2004), American culture, reflected by the U.S. Census and other government agencies, has no mention of Portuguese as Hispanic and defines Hispanic as those who “trace their origin or descent to Spain or to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and many other Spanish speaking countries of Latin America” (Bureau of the Census, 1993). Portuguese-Americans themselves also seldom consider themselves Hispanic (Portuguese-American Historical & Research Foundation, 2004; Holmes, 1998). Therefore, we are left with operational definitions of Hispanics as inclusive of various peoples of Hispanic culture derived from European, Native American, African, or Asian ancestry (Rodriguez, 2002), but explicitly omitting Portuguese.

Is exclusion of Portuguese recognition of their distinction or instead a reflection of other realities?