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Title: Visiting Rio for the Olympics? Get your Portuguese ready
Post by: AngelOfThyNight on July 19, 2016, 07:24:41 AM

Visiting Rio for the Olympics? Get your Portuguese ready

RIO DE JANEIRO        (AP) -- If English is the language of world commerce, Brazil hasn't gotten the memo - only a small fraction of its 200 million people have a basic proficiency. Fluency is also rare for other languages such as German, French and even Spanish, despite Brazil being bordered by seven Spanish-speaking countries....
Source: Visiting Rio for the Olympics? Get your Portuguese ready (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OLY_BRAZIL_PORTUGUESE_ONLY?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)