
Using your Kindle device to learn Portuguese
With over 1,400 titles about Portuguese language written in English or in Portuguese, it has never been so easy to practise Portuguese at home or on the go, if you have a kindle device or a tablet. Since purchasing a Kindle device, I started to explore the possibilities to download tittles in Portuguese in order to catch up with the thriving literature of Portugal, Brazil and Angola. What I found was surprising: many tittles written in English about Portuguese language that I

Santos Dumont, the Aviation Pioneer
Who was the most famous person in Paris and in the world at the beginning of the 20th Century ? Alberto Santos-Dumont! Whenever Santos Dumont was spotted on the streets of Paris, the crowds would rush and pack the streets, eager to see what flight equipment he would test that time. Dumont would fly baloons of different shapes and propulsion, he would also make several attempts to put his 14-Bis airplane flying - which would many times make him end up on top of trees - in t

Book: O Menino Maluquinho
Today I would like to speak about this wonderful little book written by Brazil's most famous cartoonist and writer, Ziraldo, whose books have sold about ten million copies, have been translated to many foreign languages and adapted to the theater and cinema. O Menino Maluquinho (The Nutty Boy) is a series of comic book and comic strip published in 1980 that became a phenomenon during the decades 1990 and 2000, receiving movies, plays and TV series The stories revolve around