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In fact, some Brazilian tourists in Portugal say they can’t understand a word that’s spoken there! The situation is similar to a conversation among English speakers from Texas, South Africa, and Ireland: It would probably sound like they were speaking three different languages. No doubt they’d struggle to understand each other.  \nWithin Brazil, there are also regional differences in the way people speak—just as accents differ in various regions of the U.S. Think about the accents of people in Alabama, Minnesota, and New York. So it is in Brazil. People in São Paulo (sahooh pah-ooh-loh), Rio de Janeiro (hee-ooh dee zhah-nay-roh), and the touristy city of Salvador (sahl-vah-doh) have different twangs to their speech, but it’s still pretty easy to understand all of them if you know Portuguese.  \nWritten Portuguese, however, is pretty standard, especially the writing you find in a newspaper or other type of publication. A Brazilian can understand a Portuguese newspaper or read the works of Portugal’s Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago (zhoh-zeh sah-rah-mah-goh), no problem.  \nThe Portuguese in this book is Brazilian Portuguese, as opposed to the Portuguese spoken in Portugal and countries in Africa, including Cabo Verde (kah-boh veh-jee) (Cape Verde; islands off northwestern Africa), Moçambique  \n10 Part I: Getting Started    \n(moh-sahm-bee-kee) (Mozambique; on the coast of southeast Africa), GuinéBissau (gwee-neh bee-sah-ooh) (Guinea Bissau; in western Africa), Angola (ahngoh-lah) (in southwestern Africa), and São Tomé e Príncipe (sah-ooh toh-mehee preen-see-pee) (Sao Tome and Principe; islands off western Africa) .  \nExploring the Roots of Portuguese  \nThe beautiful Portuguese language belongs to a linguistic family known as the Romance languages. Back when the Roman Empire was around, Rome was the center of a wide swath of Europe, northern Africa, and parts of Asia. With Rome’s influence came its language—Latin.  \nThe closer a place was to Rome, the more likely it was to absorb Latin into its language. This was the case with Portugal—where the Portuguese language originates—as well as the language of places like France, Spain, and even Romania.  \nSo how did Portuguese get all the way to Brazil? A Portuguese conquistador named Pedro Álvares Cabral (peh-droh ahl-vah-reez kah-brah-ooh) landed in modern-day Brazil on April 22, 1500, and is the person credited for having“discovered” Brazil. Many indigenous people were already living in the area, of course, many of whom spoke languages that are part of a linguistic family today called Tupi-Guarani (too-pee gwah-rah-nee) .  \nBrazilian Portuguese uses some Tupi-Guarani words, which commonly appear as names of towns in Brazil—Ubatuba (ooh-bah-too-bah), for example, is a pretty beach town in São Paulo (sah-ooh pah-ooh-loh) state. 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