Brazil is a great place for shopping. There, you will be able to find from gigantic shopping meccas in big capitals to small shacks selling handcrafts or produce by the side of roads. Continue reading
Types of Shopping in Brazil
Category Archives: Food
Uma água de coco, por favor!: Ordering drinks in Brazil
To show you have mastered a language, sometimes it’s not enough to order food and drink, you have to know how to do it, the little quirks that will land you just what you want. Here are some sentences that … Continue reading
The Five Senses at a Feira, Street Market, in Brazil
Ir a feira, going to the street market, in Brazil is a stroll that intensifies all your sense perceptions. Continue reading
The story and traditions behind Dragon Boat Festival
In Chinese, the name for Dragon Boat Festival is 端午节 [duān wǔ jié], which is not a literal translation of Dragon Boat Festival, but rather is an ancient phrase that relates to the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The festival is always celebrated on 五月初五 [wǔ yuè chū wǔ], the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which this year falls on June 2. Continue reading
Types of Restaurants You’ll Find in Brazil
Brazilian cuisine is as varied as the number of immigrants it has embraced throughout its more than 500 years of history, and to go with this diversity, there are many different types of restaurants. Continue reading
Joyeuses Pâques! Celebrating Easter in France
Joyeuses Pâques! (Happy Easter) La fête de Pâques (Easter holiday) celebrates the return of Spring with l'œuf (the egg) as an important symbol of germination. As in other western cultures, decorated eggs - mostly edible, en sucre ou en chocolat (made with sugar or chocolate) -, are a traditional gift given during Easter. Continue reading
How to impress an Irish bartender
Do you have the Gift of Gab? You don’t have to travel all the way to Ireland and hang off of the side of a castle to get it. Living Language will help you impress everyone at the pub … Continue reading
It’s Chai Time
Chai (चाय) is central to Indian culture. It is a morning ritual, an offering to welcome guests, a cure for maladies ranging from fevers to sore throats and indigestion and an excuse to break. Continue reading
10 Japanese Chopstick Don’ts
If you’ve read our post, How to Use Chopsticks with Elegance, you can now skillfully use chopsticks with ease. Great! But wait… did you know that there are 10 things you absolutely must not do with chopsticks? They are so … Continue reading
Le Kig Ha Farz: a Hearty Recipe from Brittany
Perfect for wintertime, Kig Ha Farz (pronounced keeg ah fahrs) is un plat copieux breton (a hearty meal from Brittany), more precisely for the Finistère department. Literally, the name means viande et pâte (meat and dough). Continue reading
