Sunday, May 12, 2013

Museu da Lingua Portuguesa March 30th

During our last few days in São Paulo Anders and I visited the famous Portuguese Language museum located in the Estação da Luz..  To be honest, at first it sounded like a very boring place to go.  However, I was interested to know that this museum is the only interactive language museum in all Latin America.  Although we didn't spend too much time there, I was fascinated by the interesting details I learned about the Portuguese language and its origins.  At the museum were interactive monitors that displayed the pronunciation and origin of each word.  It was interesting to see how many Portuguese words came from the native Indians languages and African languages.