Dirty Portuguese: Everyday Slang from What's Up? to F*%# Off! - Paperback

by Alice Rose (Author), Nati Vale (Author), Pedro A. Cabral (Author)

Learn how to say all the Portuguese words you could never learn is school with this handy travel guide to slang, casual phrases and, let's be honest, curse words.

Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Portuguese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

- Cool slang
- Funny insults
- Explicit sex terms
- Raw swear words

Dirty Portuguese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Brazil:

What's up? -- Tudo bem?
Are those fake boobs? -- Você tem silicone no peito?
I need to take a piss. -- Preciso mijar.
That goalie is so weak. -- Esse goleiro é uma mãe.
I'm smashed. -- Tô bebum.
and more!

Author Biography

Nati Vale is a native of Puerto Rico with a Bahian swing in her step. She currently lives in Berkeley, California, where she attempts to finish her dissertation one paragraph at a time.

Alice Rose is a Brazil enthusiast who, while she is not working on her Bahian accent, is digging for dinosaur bones in her backyard in Oakland, California.

Pedro A. Cabral discovered Brazil in 1500. He spent most of his life in Salvador, Brazil. Due to GPS technology and Google Maps, Cabral has been forced to give up his love for exploration and has retired to the tame Oakland, California, where he has dedicated himself to the art of capoeira.