As they say "VIVENDO E APRENDENDO " in English?

The equivalent of the phrase "vivendo e aprendendo" is not generally used in the gerund. So, in English, prefer to say "LIVE AND LEARN". Check out the examples below.

• As the chairman has said, he made some missteps in a few media appearances. Live and learn. (CNN)
• Como disse o presidente, ele deu alguns passos em falso quando apareceu na mídia. Vivendo e aprendendo.
• But who knows anything at 19? So you just live and learn, and grow, and try to get on with your life.
• Mas quem é que sabe das coisas aos 19 anos? Então você vai vivendo e aprendendo, e vai tocando sua vida.

So this is personal "live and learn" !!!
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Instrumentos musicais em inglês

Em homenagem ao “Dia do Músico”, comemorado em 22 de novembro. Segue relação com os principais instrumentos musicais. Mais do que um parabéns aos músicos, este post é um agradecimento sincero a esses artistas que tornam nossas vidas mais alegres, reflexivas, saudosas, tristes, agitadas, dançantes, viajantes, engraçadas, complicadas, enfim, completas.

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• ACCORDION = acordeão, sanfona, gaita (RS)
• ACOUSTIC BASS GUITAR, ACOUSTIC BASS = baixo acústico, baixolão
• BABY-GRAND PIANO, BABY-GRAND = piano de meia-cauda
• BAGPIPES = gaita de fole, gaita de foles
• BALALAIKA = balalaica
• BANJO = banjo
• BASS DRUM = bumbo
• BASS GUITAR, ELECTRIC BASS, BASS = baixo elétrico, baixo, contrabaixo elétrico
• BASS TUBA = baixo tuba
• BASSOON = fagote
• BONGO DRUMS, BONGO = bongô
• BOW = arco (do violino, violoncelo etc.)
• CARILLON = carrilhão
• CASTANETS = castanholas
• CAVAQUINHO = cavaquinho
• CELLO, VIOLONCELLO = violoncelo
• CLARIN, CLARINO = clarim
• CLARINET = clarinete, clarineta
• CLAVICHORD = clavicórdio
• CONGA DRUM, CONGA = conga
• CONTRABASSOON, DOUBLE BASSOON = contrafagote
• COR ANGLAIS, ENGLISH HORN = corne inglês
• CYMBAL = prato
• DRUMS, DRUM KIT, DRUM SET = bateria
• DRUMSTICK = baqueta
• FIFE = pífano, pífaro, pife
• FLUGELHORN = fliscorne, flugelhorn
• FLUTE, TRANSVERSE FLUTE = flauta, flauta transversal
• GRAND PIANO = piano de cauda
• GÜIRO = reco-reco
• GUITAR = violão; guitarra
• HARMONICA, MOUTH ORGAN = gaita
• HARP = harpa
• HARPSICHORD = cravo
• HIGH-HAT, HI-HAT = chimbau
• HORN = trompa
• KETTLEDRUM, TIMPANI, TYMPANI = tímpano
• KEYBOARD = teclado
• LAP STEEL GUITAR = guitarra havaina
• LUTE = alaúde
• LYRE = lira
• MANDOLIN = bandolim
• MARACAS = maracas
• OBOE = oboé
• ORGAN, CHURCH ORGAN = órgão
• PIANO = piano
• PICCOLO = flautim, piccolo
• PORTUGUESE GUITAR = guitarra portuguesa
• RECORDER, ENGLISH FLUTE = flauta doce, flauta de bisel
• SAXOPHONE = saxofone
• SEVEN-STRING GUITAR = violão de 7 cordas
• SHAKER = chocalho
• SHEKERE = xequerê
• SIDE DRUM, SNARE DRUM = caixa
• SITAR = cítara
• TABLA = tabla
• TALKING DRUM = tambor falante
• TAMBOURINE = pandeiro
• TENOR GUITAR = violão tenor
• TIMBALES = timbales
• TOM-TOM = tom-tom, tambor (da bateria)
• TRIANGLE = triângulo
• TROMBONE = trombone
• TRUMPET = trompete, trombeta
• TUBA = tuba
• TUBULAR BELLS, CHIMES = carrilhão de orquestra, sinos tubulares
• UKELELE = ukelele
• VIBRAPHONE = vibrafone
• VIOLA = viola (instrumento de orquestra pertencente à família do violino)
• VIOLIN = violino
• WOODBLOCK = bloco sonoro
• XYLOPHONE = xilofone

War in the Korean!!

North Korea says the region is on the brink of war

United States sent aircraft carriers after bombing the South Korean island on Tuesday (23)



North Korea accused on Wednesday (24) South Korea to lead the region to the "brink of war."
The note, released by the official news agency KCNA said North Korea, said Seoul maintains a "reckless military provocation" and delays the delivery of humanitarian aid to the North.

- South Korea is undermining the process of improving inter-Korean relations, blocking the talks mediated by the Red Cross and driving the situation to the brink of war by following a policy of confrontation with North Korea.

Pyongyang's accusations came a day after an exchange of gunfire on the island of Yeongpyeong that left four South Koreans dead - two soldiers and two civilians - and 18 wounded.

Seoul accuses North Korea of having fired some 200 shells at the South Korean island, while the North's communist government claims that only responded to an attack.

Most of the international community, however, blamed the violence in the region to the North Koreans, who use their nuclear arsenal as a form of blackmail to get outside help in food, fuel and money.

The shooting happened two days after an American scientist has revealed a new uranium enrichment program in North Korea, which increased the tension and concern in the United States and its allies.

The Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, said the new plan gives North Korea the potential to build more nuclear weapons.

Americans and South Koreans held next Sunday (28), military maneuvers near the border of North Korea.

South Korea also announced it will move to new batteries of artillery bombarded the island by North Korea.

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Did you know?

Did you know that learning to think in another language is not just a mental process. It is an ability that depends on respiration, motor coordination, ventilation in the brain, and the speed of thought? As an illustrative example, we can analyse the famous sentence “The book is on the table” which means “O livro está sobre a mesa”, in Portuguese. Compare the number of letters in the two sentences – 19 letters in English and 20 in Portuguese. Also compare the number of syllables – 6 in English and 10 in Portuguese! Taking respiration into account, the sentence in Portuguese is longer, since it has more sounds (syllables) than the English version. If we coordinate thought with language, we certainly have to think more rapidly to think in English since the sentence is spoken in less time (fewer syllables). And this change in the speed of speaking and thought is what is most difficult in developing competency in learning and thinking in English, since it is necessary to alter an old conditioning and accelerate the speed of one’s thoughts.

Research sources:

http://www.englishexperts.com.br/2006/10/13/did-you-know/

Pensar e Sonhar em Inglês

Tente pensar em Inglês o tempo todo, essa é a melhor forma de fixar o idioma em seu cérebro – aconselham os professores aos seus alunos. Eu realmente acredito que isso funciona, sempre que passo muitas horas estudando e depois saio para fazer uma outra atividade, eu tento manter aquela “voz interna” falando em Inglês, isso me ajuda muito. Essa história de voz interna parece coisa sobrenatural, mas pode ficar tranqüilo que eu não vou começar a falar de fenômenos paranormais. Quando digo voz interna, refiro-me àqueles comandos internos que nossa mente dá ao corpo antes de executar alguma tarefa. Por exemplo, quando a gente acorda segunda-feira de manhã e ainda está morrendo de sono, qual é o primeiro pensamento que vem à mente, ainda antes de sair da cama? Provavelmente é um “putz eu tenho que levantar agora. Ninguém merece”. Ao invés de pensar em Português tente pensar em Inglês: “what the hell, I have to wake up now. Nobody deserves it”. É claro que o exemplo acima é só pra descontrair um pouco, mas e idéia é exatamente esta. Comece a exercitar a sua mente pensando sempre em Inglês, ou pelo menos o máximo de tempo possível. Ao invés de pensar “eu estou subindo as escadas” pense “I’m going up the stairs”. Como sua mente vai rapidamente se acostumar a pensar no idioma que está aprendendo, em pouco tempo você vai começar também a sonhar em Inglês e isso é sinal de que você está a um passo da tão sonhada fluência.

That’s all folks,
I hope that helps.

Research sources:

http://www.englishexperts.com.br/2007/08/19/pensar-e-sonhar-em-ingles/

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Days of the week in English

Hello, some people have doubt of where the names of the days of the week had appeared, then we go to more know a little on the sprouting and the influence of this in the English. In the whole world the names of the days make reference to direct or indirect reference the planets, and this started with the old Romans who identified the days being based on the galaxy.

We can notice that the English received this influence in the formation from the names of the days. They see below:
Sunday (Sunday) - Sun, Day of the Sun.

Monday (Second) - Moon, Day of the Moon.

Tuesday (Third) - Tiw God of the War and the Sky, associated Mars.

Wednesday (Fourth) - Woden King of the Deuses, associated the Mercury.

Thursday (Fifth) - Thor God of the Thunder, associated Jupiter.

Friday (Sixth) - Frigg Woman of Woden, associate Venus.

Saturday (Saturday) - Saturn God of Agriculture, associated Saturn.

The working days we call weekdays, and the end of week of weekend. The names of the days always must be initiated with capital letter and be followed of the definite article “on”.

Ex.: I don't work on Monday.

Ex.: There ploughs many parties on Fridays.

Curiosity: Some curious ones can have a doubt, “Because the days of the week are so different in Portuguese”. The lusitanos had the custom to make commerce in streets and squares, and the region that they would make the “fair” was in the order of second region, third and so on. The first day was not as “First-Fair” for them to dedicate the first day of the week to the God of the Sun.

Research sources:

http://www.englishexperts.com.br/2008/09/03/dias-da-semana-em-ingles/

How Nerdy Are You?

Nerd is a term that refers to a person who avidly pursues intellectual activities, technical or scientific endeavors, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests, rather than engaging in more social or conventional activities. A nerd is often excluded from physical activity and considered a loner by peers, or will tend to associate with like-minded people.
Below is a test to find out what you've got a nerd, after all, we all have a bit of a nerd, either in computing studies, games, etc..
Do Nerdtest 1.0 and find out if you're more or less geeky, the Nerdtest 2.0 to find out if you are facing is more science / math, for computers / technology, sci-fi/comic is, or is sci-fi/comic is dumb / dork / awkwardness, and The Nerd (Brazil) Test to see how much nerd in general, school nerd, Nerd vices or Non-nerd you are.

To enjoy - Central Park

Central Park is a large park (with 341 hectares) within the U.S. city of New York, the state of the same name. It has an area of 3.4 square kilometers and is located in the district of Manhattan.

The park, which existed for 150 years, is considered by many New Yorkers, an oasis within the great forest of skyscrapers in the region. It is a place where people can slow down the frantic New York: people can sit on a bench and read the newspaper, chat with friends, play games, ride a bike or playing with children.
With approximately twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited park in the city and appears in many movies and television programs, making it known worldwide.
It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who later created Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Although the park looks natural, it is in fact almost entirely landscaped and contains several artificial lakes, hiking trails, two ice rinks, a living shrine and diverse fields.

Research sources:

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park

"What genre of film that you fit in?" - Result

      In the poll this week, the film genre was crowd favorite: Comedy. With 44% of the vote, earning laughter.