Language in Brazil - Why You Need Certified Translations

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Language in Brazil Why You Need Certified
Translations

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• What language do they speak in Brazil?
• Many people, especially in the United States,
  believe that Spanish is spoken in Brazil due to
  the fact that Spanish is the official language of
  every other country in South and Central America
  as well as Mexico (many people believe that
  Mexico is in Central America, but that is a point
  for another time). What language is spoken in
  Brazil? To clear up all the confusion, let us
  state once and for all that the official language
  of Brazil is Portuguese.
• Why Portuguese?
• Some historical background Brazil was colonized
  by the Portuguese and the Dutch. Eventually, the
  Dutch left, and the Portuguese dominated. They
  held the area which is now Brazil and had various
  conflicts with the Spanish colonizers, but
  managed to maintain their grip. This is the
  reason why all of Central and South America speak
  Spanish, but that the language spoken in Brazil
  is Portuguese. Portuguese is also spoken in a
  number of other countries around the world with a
  relationship to Portuguese colonizers, including
  Portugal, Mozambique, Angola, Equatorial Guinea,
  Guinea-Bisseau, Macau, and others.

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• Language spoken in Brazil
• However, the Portuguese spoken in these countries
  are not necessarily the same. As is true with all
  languages, any non-native language which becomes
  local to an area will have local customs,
  culture, vernacular, climate, and attitude
  adopted into the language itself. This changes
  everything from vocabulary to intonation.
  Brazilian Portuguese, for example, uses different
  pronouns and a myriad of local idioms in
  comparison to Portuguese from Portugal, as well
  as a different cadence and pronunciation.
• Within Brazil, other languages are also spoken,
  as the indigenous populations have their own
  languages. Many of these indigenous people do not
  speak Portuguese and require translators when
  communicating with non-indigenous Brazilians.
  Different regions of Brazil, as is the case with
  most countries, will have local slang and accent
  that differs from other regions of the country.

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The Necessity of Translation The United States
remains an incredibly popular destination for
Brazilians. At the moment, Brazilians must go
through a gauntlet of official paperwork in order
to enter the United States, including visas and
proof of vaccination or testing. A Brazilian who
wishes to live in the United States must produce
even more documentation, and although a Brazilian
who wishes to live in the USA very likely speaks
at least some English, it is not enough to be
able to translate the many official documents
which require translation in both English and
Portuguese. Although English is taught in schools
it is rarely used in day-to-day life, and so many
people who have studied English in their youth do
not speak English at all. Americans who are
seeking Brazilian long-term visas or are involved
in legal proceedings in Brazil have a worse
problem--Portuguese is not taught at all in
American schools. Not to mention those involved
in doctorate programs overseas or who are
conducting doctorate or academic research in
Brazil. Translation is necessary to proceed in
all kinds of official matters--but not all
translations are created equal.
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• Why Certified Translation?
• There are a number of pitfalls when it comes to
  translating Portuguese into English. Many words
  which have one meaning in Portuguese have an
  entirely different meaning in English despite the
  word sharing a common Latin root. These words are
  called false cognates, and there are many shared
  between the two languages---especially in
  academic language. A particularly demonstrative
  example is the word idiom, which in English
  refers to a phrase in which separate words have a
  different meaning in connection to the phrase and
  can only be understood through context, i.e.,
  'it's raining cats and dogs' or 'he has finally
  seen the light'. In Portuguese, the word idioma
  literally means "language". One could easily make
  the mistake of exchanging one word for the other
  interchangeably, but the meaning would most
  certainly be lost.
• In addition to this, Brazilian Portuguese has a
  sharp contrast between spoken language and
  academic or legal language, and english to
  portuguese translation service or a person who
  speaks casual and conversational Portuguese does
  not necessarily have the ability to translate
  legal documents or academic papers.
• These reasons demonstrate the necessity of
  certified translations which can be relied upon
  to deliver accurate meaning and context to local,
  regional, or national vernacular, grammar, and
  idioms. There are certain phrases in one region
  of Brazil which a person from another region may
  not be familiar with for example, in the region
  of Minas-Gerais it is common to substitute the
  word "thing" for the word for "train". It is
  necessary to have certified translation to ensure
  that a legal document recording the testimony of
  a Mineiro reflects this slang so that the person
  reading the translation does not conclude that
  the speaker has an abnormal interest in rail
  transport.

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phrases in one area can be foreign to the next.
Legal and academic Portuguese is vastly different
than spoken Portuguese--and legal and academic
language is especially important to get right.
Legal proceedings, visa requirements, doctorate
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