Brazilian Portuguese Translation Services

Brazilian Portuguese is a form of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil. It is spoken by most of the 180 million inhabitants of Brazil. Standard Brazilian Portuguese is strongly influenced by the dialects of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is also spoken through immigrants and their descendants in Canada, United States, Portugal, and Japan — where it is spoken by Japanese-Brazilian migrants.

There are various differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, such as the dropping of the second person in everyday usage and the use of subject pronouns (ele, ela, eles, elas) as direct objects. Portuguese people can understand Brazilian Portuguese well. However, Brazilians have some difficulty in understanding European Portuguese. This is mainly due to the fact European Portuguese tends to compress words to a greater extent than in Brazil -- for example, tending to drop unstressed /e/ -- and to introduce greater allophonic modifications of various sounds. For similar reasons, Portuguese speakers in general usually find it easier to understand Spanish than the reverse.

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
The formal term 'o senhor' is often used as a second-person pronoun in Portugal. In Brazil, this is not very common, although it still sometimes happens in very formal situations such as shopkeepers addressing customers -- similar to when the terms "sir" or "ma'am" are used in English. The EP custom of using a title or first name as a pronoun is not used in Brazil.

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