Portuguese words for travellers to Brazil, Madeira and Portugal

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Portuguese - English

aguas - waters/rainfall

amor - love

apartamento (um apartamento) - apartment (an apartment)

avenida - avenue

barco - boat

bilhete - ticket / bilhete de volta - return ticket

carro - car

casa - house

castelo - castle

condominio - condo/condominium

de - of

doutor - doctor (this is from translate google, different results from Wiki phrasebook)

eu - I

Eu te amo - I love you (literally I you love, subject, object, verb)

jardim - garden

lago - lake/pond

livre - free

livro - book

mapa - map

mar - sea

Marca - March (noun, the month)

mercado/supermercado - market/supermarket

meu - me/mine

nova - new

perdido - lost

pinheiro - pine tree, pine tree forest (Place name)

piscina - pool/swimming pool

policia - police

ponte - bridge

porto - harbour

real - royal

rio - river

rua - street

sapato - shoe

torre -  tower

triste - sad 

English - Portuguese

apartment - apartamento

avenida - avenue

boat - barco

book - livro

bridge - ponte

car - carro

castle - castelo

condo/condominium - condominio

doctor - doutor

free - livre

garden - jardim

harbour - porto

house - casa

I - eu

lake/pond - lago

map - mapa

lost - perdido

love - amor

me/mine - meu

new - nova

of - de

old - velha (feminine) velho (masculine)

pine tree/pine tree forest - pinheiro

police - policia

pond/lake - lago

rain - aguas

return ticket - bilhete de volta

river - rio

royal - real

sad - triste (the same word in French)

sea - mar

shoe - sapato

street - rua

swimming pool - piscina

ticket - bilhete

tower - torre 

Useful Websites

FREE

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese_phrasebook

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Portuguese_phrasebook

UNDER ten dollars

https://shop.lonelyplanet.com/products/portuguese-phrasebook-4

https://shop.lonelyplanet.com/products/brazilian-portuguese-phrasebook-5

Italian words easily learned from art Works and Art Museums; house, museum and more

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It is easy to learn Italian words for foods from menus in restaurants or online and from recipes and good sold in supermarkets.
Another fun way to learn Italian is by looking at list of works by your favourite Italian artists. I just looked at works by de Chirico.

Some Italian words translated

Italian - English

A
amore - love

anatomico - anatomical

anniversario - anniversary

autoritratto - self-portrait

B
bagno - bath

bagni - baths

biscotti - biscuits

busto - bust

C
casa - house
cavalli - horses

con - with

D
del - of the

di - of

donna - woman

due - two

F
frutta - fruit

I
interno - interior

L
le - the

M
mare - sea

maschere - mask

metafisico - metaphysical
museo - museum

mysteriosi - mysterious

N
nudo - nude

P
principe - prince

R
rimorso - remorse
riposa - rest

ritratto - portrait

T
test - head

triangolo - triangle

English - Italian

Some Italian words translated

love - amore

A
anatomical - anatomico

anniversary - anniversario

B

bath - bagno 

Baths - bagni 

biscuits - biscotti 

bust - busto 

F
fruit - frutta

H
horses - cavalli
house - casa

I
interior - interno 
L
love - amore

le - the

M 
mask - maschere 

metaphysical - metafisico 
museum - museo

mysterious -  mysteriosi
N

nude - nudo 
O
of - di
of the - del
P
portrait - ritratto

prince - principe 
R
remorse - rimorso 

rest - riposa 

S
sea - mare
self-portrait - autoritratto

T
the - le
test - head

triangolo - triangle

two -due

W

with - con

woman - donna

Useful Websites

duolingo.com

wikipedia

wikivoyage


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Author, Author! About the Author
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Author of twenty books including: Quick Quotations; Who Said What When.
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Americanism and British English - still surprised xxx xoxo?

American English and British English are only slightly different, but I learn new things constantly.


An English author was asked by the copy editor to leave out xxx on the end of letters (mail and email) because Americans would not understand this mean kiss, kiss, kiss.


Americans and some Europeans think it means x rated. Readers are puzzled.

I have noticed but never understood xoxo. Apparently Americans use this to mean kiss hug, hiss hug.

What about Canadians?


Canadians follow British language habits more closely than the Americans.

I already knew what I thought were most of the Americanisms from living in the USA as well as the UK.

British English - American English
bargain basement/bargain shop - thrift store
condom/Durex - rubber
kindergarden - preschool
lorry - truck
Mum - Mom
nappy - diaper
primary school - elementary school
public school - private school
rubber - eraser
secondary school - high school
tip - hack
turn right - make a right

American English - British English
elementary school - primary school
eraser - rubber
hack - tip
high school - secondary school
make a right - turn right
Mom - Mum
on consignment - sale or return
preschool - kindergarden
private school - public school/fee-paying school
public school - state school/council school
truck - lorry
thrift store - bargain shop

Well, love to all of you.
xxx
xoxo

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Easy first steps in Chinese:- Say 'I love you,' and ask, 'was the food good?"

In Singapore a bilingual English and Chinese speaking friend said three words in Chinese to the girl sitting beside me.
He used the words for the English question, 'Did you enjoy the food?'

The three Chinese words stood for: good food really?

I already knew the word for good because the Chinese for how are you is

Ni hao? = You good?

You - ni prounded like knee
good - sounds like 'how'

This phrase can be extended with the question word, ma.
ma - question word, which I translate as 'really?'

If you don't have a teacher, you will find lots of free first lessons on line.

My favourite video, is on YoyoChinese because the lady speaker is attractive and speaks good English as well as making Chinese simple.

From the video you will learn to say I love you and you love me.

Wo = I  ... you =  ni

'You love me' is : ni ... wo.
In Google translate I can find the word for love.

Add ma to ask, 'Do you love me?'

Love is written is ai or hai. Ask a Chinese speaking friend to say it and repeat it to them. Or listen to the translateGoogle.com translation.

我爱你
你爱我
你爱我吗

Wǒ ài nǐ
nǐ ài wǒ
nǐ ài wǒ ma

The Chinese and Japanese written language use the same symbols.

Useful Websites
Language learning video free introductory lesson
YoyoChinese.com



Also
Free online basic course multiple choice simple pictures, words and sentences.
Duolingo
duolingo.com

Free online learning basic course with your memory aids saved for yourself to re-use later or to share.
Memrise
memrise.com



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Hanoi Vietnam Tuong Theatre, Acrobatics and a song about mother's love

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In Hanoi we booked seats for the Vietnamese show My Village (Lang Toi in Vietnamese), which is at 6 pm and lasts an hour.

Opera House & Vietnam Tuong Theatre
The show is confusingly at two venues, one of which is the Hanoi Opera House. We were looking forward to seeing the opera house. We were surprised when out taxi driver took us in another direction. Our taxi driver fortunately knew that the show as on at the Hanoi Vietnam Tuong Theatre.

So we missed out on seeing the grand Hanoi opera house, built by the French in 1911. However, instead we got to see a smaller Vietnamese-style theatre with masks on the walls.

Free Tea
The event starts with a pre-show free drink of lemon grass tea. You walk through an alcove into a side room and pour yourself your tea from an urn made of porcelain.

The theatre lobby has red pillars and masks on the walls.


Colourful pillars at 'Hanoi Vietnam Tuong Theatre'. Photo by Angela Lansbury.




Masks in the lobby of the theatre. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Birdsong
We can hear birdsong recordings. The show was delightful, although it had no programme, no translation, no discernable plot.

Acrobatics And Poles
The main props are giant bamboo poles used to create x shapes which agile girls and boys climb. Feats of acrobatics. One girl must be double-jointed. She bends backwards and forwards. The most amusing moment was when she scratched her forehead with her toes, from a leg up her back!ll u

The later part of the show included some amusing juggling with three jugglers. Plus some singing.

Song of Mother's and Father's Love
Luckily we were with a friend who speaks Vietnamese. She was able to tell us later over dinner that one well-known traditional song was about a father's love being as high as Vietnam's tallest mountain. The mother's love is deep as the sea. Apparently this refrain is repeated many times.

You were not allowed to take photos during the show. but afterwards the performers came into the foyer.

Cambodia Show Plot
In Cambodia we saw a show with dancers and singers, much more colourful, with a plot, boy chases girl, girl rejects boy, rival boy courts her. he abandons her. Girl is consoled by attention of first true love. He marries her. Happy end with much joyful singing and dancing.

I can't help thinking that this whole show could be so much better.

We walked back to our hotel in the old quarter via the night market.

If you go to Hanoi, do see it. The other big show in Hanoi is the water puppets. The Lune Production group also has performances in Saigon (also now known as Ho Chi Minh city).

www.luneproduction.com
email reservation@luneproduction.com
tel:+84 1245 18 11 88
For reviews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City#Museums_and_art_galleries
https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/ShowUserReviews-g293925-d4542125-r195747380-A_O_Show_Lune_Production-Ho_Chi_Minh_City.html

For hotels
booking.com
Comparison site:
https://www.clicktripz.com/rates/search/index
For airlines
travelok.com
vietJetair.com (Comprehensive list of budget airlines in Wikivoyage.)
For transport
https://www.grab.com/vn/en/

Language
Duolingo.com 
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Happy Train Travel - Blow-up Giraffe and Balloon

Always somebody or something to admire. I asked where she got her blow-up giraffe and balloon. She said artbox. She and her half a dozen friends amused themselves at that spot taking photos before setting off for another photo frame spot.

Portuguese words for good fish sandwich snack

Problem

Portuguese for Brazil is similar to Portuguese for Portugal and islands such as Madeira which was a shipping stop in the Atlantic. Madeira wine gets its name from the wine which heated up during transport and was fortified to protect it during the sea journey. Portuguese is easy to learn if you speak English and more so as it is similar to Spanish and Italian and the root romance language, Latin. How do you remember words you have just learned from Duolingo, the free language learning ap?

Answer

Find a hook to hang the word on. Then repeat the reminder to yourself all day and every day until the word is firmly in your memory. No time or energy for that? Never mind. I find that when I come back to repeat a half-done lesson or revision, the word comes to mind much faster than it did when I first learned it.

English - Portuguese

food - comida (ah - food) (if you prefer a word ending in o, to match food, use alimento like the alimentary canal in your body) 

good - bom as in Bombay (Now Mumbai)

kitchen - cozinho (like cuisine, with an H like kitchen, ends with Oh! excitement, mouth open as you walk into the kitchen and see the cuisine)

pasta - massa - I eat a mass of pasta

snack - lanche (like light lunch, snack lunch)

fish - peixe (i before e in English except in fish pe, fish pee, pe, ixe, start and end with vowels e peixe, x in the middle of the word like fish fins)

sandwich - sanduiche (almost the same but change the w to u, just like the w sound but shortened in shape)

Verbs

I drink - bebo (like imbibe)

I eat  - como (I eat)

I like - gusto de (have a liking for, de is of or for)

I write - escrivo

Portuguese

The o ending goes with I just like the Latin. At school I learned Latin, amo, amas, amat, meaning I love, you love, he, she or it loves.

amo (Latin for I love)

bebo - I drink (Portuguese for I drink)

comida - food

escrivo - I write

eu - I

gusto - I like (add de before a noun, rather like our English phrases I have a fancy for, liking for)

lanche - snack

pesce - fish

sanduiche - sandwich

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A few more Malay words

Malay - English
c i n t a - love
d a n - and
d a r a - virgin
g e g a r - shake
ikon - icon
k u k e j a r cinta - chased love
k u k e j a r - chased
k u l i n e r - culinary
n u s a n t a r a - archipelago (a group or string of islands)
r a i k a n - celebrate
u d a - younger

English - Malay
and - d a n
archipelago - nusantara
celebrate - r a i k a n
chased - k u k e j a r
culinary - k u l i n e r
icon - ikon
love - c i n t a
shake - g e g a r
virgin - d a r a
younger - u d a

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Valentine's Day Heart Shaped Treats

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Heart shape pendant

Heart shape toast, using a heard shape cutout (or fold the bread and use a piece of paper as a template).

Heart shape crumpet sold in supermarket.

Heart shape crumpet white plate.

Sainsbury's website had some great ideas for heart-shape foods. My favourites are:
1 Fried egg cooked in a heart-shape hole cut in toast.
2 Lightly boiled egg squeezed into heart shape by pressing base into v-shape card, and making an  indentation on top with a chopstick, washed pencil or similar
3 Heart shape bread for biscuit with red topping. (Savoury eg beetroot or sweet eg jam (called jelly in the USA), jelly (called Jello which is a brand name in the USA) and/ or red squashed or pureed fruit.

Travelling the UK
If you are travelling around before Valentine's day, look for some special dinners in restaurants, themed pubs, and heart shape crockery displays in department stores.

After Valentine's day look for discounts on the heart-shape crockery. In Brent Cross shopping centre try Fenwicks department store crockery department.

Travelling In Singapore
If you are planning a trip which takes place before or during Valentine's Day, you can spend time during your rest at the airport or on the plane noting down in your diary some Happy Valentine's Day stories.

Toastmasters International Clubs
If you go to a speakers' club in Singapore not just on Valentine's Day but during the month of February, meetings will have the themes Love and Valentines. You may be asked:
What will you do on Valentine's Day?
What do you do if you don't have a Valentine?
What was your best Valentine's Day.
What was your best present?(Given received, seen in shops.)
What was your worst present? (Given, received, seen in shops.)

If you are looking for something on a budget, try Daeso, Valu, or even the pharmacies such as Guardian and Watson.

Popular bookstore has items such as heart-shape notebooks or Post-its. Now everybody seems to be in on the festival of love, not just courting couples but married couples, children and teachers, children and parents, brothers and sisters. You can buy not only cards showing hugging bears but pairs of hugging stuffed toys.

Daiso Stores
Here's a heart shape espresso cup and saucer I bought in Daeso in Singapore for only two (Singapore) dollars, the same price charged for every item in Daeso.

Daiso is a Japanese brand store, everything the same price. I found branches in Ion in the centre of Singapore and in the mall a couple of blocks away from the last stop going north at the end of the Downtown line, Bukit Panjang. You can see two malls, Junction 10 and Bukit Panjang Plaza.

In Daeso I saw a set of cookie cutters in the four playing card shapes, clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts. I think they also sold a set of three heart shape cutters in varying sizes, nesting inside each other.

UK - Lakeland stores
In the UK the place to find this sort of thing is Lakeland cookery utensil stores. They have a branch in Watford and a website. They stock a huge variety of cookie cutters as well as seasonal items.

https://www.homemadebyyou.co.uk/articles/tips/4-hopelessly-romantic-breakfasts-for-valentines-day

Angela Lansbury travel writer and photographer.