Portuguese - At least I know one word. Pelo menos conheço uma palavra em Português.

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Portuguese is the 5th most spoken language in the world, the 3rd most spoken in the western hemisphere and the most spoken in the southern hemisphere of the planet.
In Portuguese, we embrace the world. We have words from ancient languages, such as Aramaic. Akkadian, spoken in Assyria and Babylon. We say words like Semites, Syrians and Palestinians, Greeks and Romans. We say words as Africans from so many nations say. As the Arabs say. As they say in Southern America Tupi and Guarani. As they say in India and China, Malaysia and Japan... and in so many other places.

The International Day of the Portuguese Language is celebrated on May 5th.

O Português é a 5ª língua mais falada no Mundo, a 3ª mais falada no hemisfério ocidental e a mais falada no hemisfério sul do planeta.

Em Português, abraçamos o Mundo. Temos palavras de línguas antigas, como o Aramaico, o Acadiano, falado na Assíria e na Babilônia. Dizemos palavras como as disseram Semitas, Sírios e Palestinos, Gregos e Romanos. Dizemos palavras como as dizem Africanos de tantas nações. Como as dizem Árabes. Como as dizem no Hemisfério Sul Tupis e Guaranis. Como as dizem na Índia e na China, na Malásia e no Japão... e em tantos outros lugares.

O Dia Internacional da Língua Portuguesa é comemorado no dia 5 de Maio.

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Comment by Heleen de Vaan on December 4, 2021 at 2:05am: Melro (in Dutch: merel) singing 'Cio da Terra'

(the Pássaro preto is a Brazilian bird and different from the European Melro and Corvo, https://www.wikiaves.com.br/wiki/passaro-preto )

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on December 3, 2021 at 11:53am: Two words:

Pássaro preto

Black bird (literally: Bird black)

See http://heleendevaan.blogspot.com/2010/12/merel-blackbird-passaro-pr...

And http://blackbirdproject.blogspot.com/2012/10/heleen-de-vaan-holanda...

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on November 5, 2021 at 8:23am: Cidadão do Mundo

Quote inspired by the song ‘Janela para o mundo’ by Milton Nascimento.

Comment by Bruno Chiarlone on November 4, 2021 at 7:05am

Comment by Bruno Chiarlone on November 3, 2021 at 7:42am

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on November 3, 2021 at 2:34am: Here is another word I know in Portuguese. My name!
I learned this from Patricio, one year when he sent me mail art,

to Mim from mim. That made us both have a good laugh.

Comment by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on November 2, 2021 at 10:03pm: I know those Portuguese words which have been borrowed and entered the Russian language.

marmalade – мармелад

flamingo – фламинго

madeira – мадера

coco (nut) – кокос

port (wine) – портвейн

guinea – гвинея

caste – каста

mandarin – мандарин

All the words are more understandable to me, but I've never tasted wine called madeira, and I have a vague idea about port wine. I have also never held a coin called Guinea.

Comment by Sabrina S on November 2, 2021 at 1:10pm: I only know one word in Portuguese. I visited Portugal once. Back then I was 13 years old, I think. Nearly every day we visited a playground near our apartment so my little sister, still a toddler, could play there.

One day (I remember) a very pretty Portuguese girl gifted candy to some children there – and saw that I looked in her direction. I did not think much of it, just was curious but she came over and handed me and my sister some candy, too! Not only pretty, but a sweet person, too she was! I said: "Danke!" Just to feel embarrassed the next moment as I realized that she most likely did understand nothing and that I did not know how to say thank you in Portuguese. Such a simple important phrase! So I asked our host the next day, and so I learned how to say "Obrigado"!

The picture shows me and my sister at said playground.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 2, 2021 at 8:21am: Beautiful Portuguese: obrigada

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on November 2, 2021 at 3:15am: We were in Portugal many years ago.
We bought this wood hand at a flea market

and learned the word mão.

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