DID YOU KNOW THAT THE ITALIAN ALPHABET HAS ONLY 21 LETTERS?



The Italian people are very good at keeping things simple and practical, and their alphabet is no exception. Yes, that's right, the Italian alphabet only has 21 letters, and it lacks j, k, w, x and y. Derived from the Latin alphabet, it is considered to be the closest to this "dead" language of all the languages spoken today. It shares all its letters with the English alphabet, but Italian uses a system of accents, and they are not pronounced in the same way.



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DID YOU KNOW THAT BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE IS NOT THE SAME AS PORTUGUESE FROM PORTUGAL?

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  The main difference between Brazilian Portuguese and  Portuguese from Portugal is phonetic, since the former has more open vowels, so its sound is much softer. Brazilian Portuguese is much more sonorous and sounds like it is being sung. On the other hand, the consonants in Portuguese Portuguese from Portugal tend to be much more stressed, so its sonority is harder and it seems much more closed. If we look for a comparison with Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese can be assimilated to Spanish in Latin America. In Brazilian Portuguese to form the verb tense of present continuous the verb ''to be'' plus the gerund of the verb we want to use is used. However, Portuguese from Portugal is used "to be" plus the verb and infinitive.
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