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Down And Out In Porto and London

I translated my CV into portuguese today to apply for a job in Porto. Long story, to do with Brexit and dual citizenship. TBH, it’s unlikely to happen (although not quite as unlikely as the job in Germany someone tried to get me onto last week), but I’m someone who believes in flying a lot of kites and seeing which one gets me electrocuted.

Anyway, it was very interesting and involved trawling through a lot of tech manuals looking for words specific to the tech niche I live in. Here are a few, which I think I’ll need to turn into a memrise deck at some point.

Base de dados (banco de dados in Brazil) Database
Código VB VB Code
Implementação Implementation
Depurar Debug
Sistema Informática Information system
Migração de dados Data migration
Integração de dados Data Integration
Requisitos da empresa Business requirements
Desenvolvedor Developer
Coordenar Coordinate
Sistema financeiro Financial system
Procedimentos armazenados Stored procedures
Relatório Report – also works for a BI (SQL) report.
Pasta Folder
Autarquia local Local authority
A equipa de limpar dados The data-cleansing team
Reestruturar Restructure
Tecnologia Informática (TI) Information Technology (IT)
Teletrabalho Remote Working
Rede Virtual Privada Virtual Private Network
No curto/longo prazo In the short/long term
Ofertas de Emprego Job offers
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Cash

Words and phrases related to money

Estar teso / Ficar liso = to be skint

Bagatela = a bargain

Puxar os cordões à bolsa = control spending [“pull the purse strings”]

Abrir os cordões à bolsa = foot the bill

Massa/nota/pastel/guito = money

Cheio de nota = loaded with cash

Pipa de massa = a moneybags

Caloteiro = deadbeat – someone who doesn’t pay what they owe

Ao preço de a chuva = very cheap [“at the price of rain”]

Custar os olhos na cara = cost an arm and a leg [“cost the eyes in your head”]

Levar fiado = buy on credit

 

 

 

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O Vocabulário de Negócios

I’ve just put together a Memrise deck with vocabulary from Portugues Empresarial in case anyone’s interested in vocabulary related to business. I think I’d like to do more of these theme decks in future – maybe one for computing hardware and software, for example. It’s a bit more useful, I think, than the long lists of nouns and verbs I’ve done in the past.

Business portuguese

 

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Dawn of the Dedo