The Walking Dead

There is something terribly wrong with Portuguese animals! Old ladies say it all the time: it is deadly for donkeys to have any brain activity (A pensar morreu o burro). Poor animals… I’ve never witnessed it, but I can picture a cute little donkey strolling around and suddenly drop like flies. Not everything is bad news, though: the young […]
Don´t play slim with me!

[Não te armes em fino comigo!] I heard it once: for a wise, half a word is enough (Para bom entendedor, meia palavra basta). Clearly, no foreigner learning Portuguese could have invented that saying! Did I get it right? Portuguese oranges are made of gold in the morning, turn into silver in the afternoon and kill […]