in rio, the ability to communicate, if even just very basically with the locals can add an immensely valuable dimension to anyone's time in the city - getting to know the culture and establishing a connection can be one of the most rewarding aspects of discovering carioca culture.

spoken portuguese in rio de janeiro is quite different from portuguese spoken in portugal - as a matter of fact, rio portuguese can be very different from portuguese spoken in other parts of brazil, as here there is a strong musicality built in the language, and a marked accent on the pronunciation very distinctive of carioca portuguese.

rio's portoguese is the result of hundreds of years of mixing the original portuguese language with influences of  indigenous populations' tongue and of african languages spoken by the slaves, in addition to influences from countless traders from all over the world who established a presence in the city.