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It鈥檚 good you are studying portuguese.

If you鈥檙e from California perhaps you speak spanish which will help you master portuguese faster. If you plan on working in Brazil it will be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to work with the Brazilian population without portuguese. The country is mono-lingual by design. It鈥檚 very uncommon to meet any natives who speak other languages. So a level of fluency is required for business and government interactions.

All this will become very apparent after your first few days in Brazil. Also, the Brazilian Real Estate sector is NOTHING like in the USA. No MLS etc..So, you may have to do some additional local learning 馃槻.

In any event, the first thing you will be doing is checking the place out, everything else will fall into place as it comes.

Good luck!

05/02/25 Welcome, @kittykattyyy!聽 As @bepmoht wrote, studying Portuguese is a necessity for anyone who hopes to live here.聽 Coming on a student visa to learn the language is an especially good idea.聽 It's a relatively easy way to get to stay in Brazil for a while, and you'll have time to get to know the country and figure out if you'd like to find a way to stay, or to return as a resident.聽 Foreigners in Brazil on student visas are not allowed to work for pay while studying, so you should arrive with your finances secure for whole period of your stay.

Finding a job in Brazil as a foreigner without either sponsorship from a Brazilian employer or permanent residency through other means (e.g., marriage) is practically impossible.聽 Brazilian salary levels are also quite low as compared to the US.聽 Take advantage of your time here as a student to network with your teachers and other Brazilians you meet, and you may be able to develop a permanency plan, if you decide that's what you want.聽 Even if it isn't, you'll have a memorable experience.

@kittykattyyy Good Idea. This is a question for @abthree. So apparently my聽 thread was old and did not initially have @abthree's response.

I will only emphasis that hardly anyone speaks English in Brazil

so, the more you learn ahead of time the better. I teach English and I would

greatly recommend what I call "Functional Vocabulary" It is nice to say it is sunny etc.,

but you want to learn the vocabulary to function (find the bathroom, eat, find a doctor etc.) first.

I do not live in the big glamourous cities, but far out in a small village in Northeastern Brazil.

The farther you get away from the Big Cities, the harder it is to find someone who speaks English.

The other note that was not mentioned is that coming from

California to Brazil is like winning the lottery. California is well known

for being expensive. Brazil has an exchange rate of聽 5 or 6 reis to 1 dollar.

I just went to the Supermercado (grocery store.) It cost me

R$ 424 Reis for my purchases. The amount converted from my

American bank account was just $74.

Roddie in Retirement馃暤

05/02/25 @kittykattyyy Good Idea. This is a question for @abthree.聽 So apparently my thread was old and did not initially have @abthree's response.

Roddie in Retirement馃暤 - @roddiesho

Sometimes I do miss one.聽 What old thread is that?聽 馃槂

@abthree kittykattyyy's thread came across my computer with NO responses. As I started to respond the other responses came on. 馃槑

@Kittykattyyy welcome! I live in Niteroi across the bay from Rio. I prefer it and feel safer here but I know only one other US 暗网禁区 here. I came here from San Francisco and ironically live a handful of meters from the S茫o Francisco neighborhood. Where in California are you from?

I completely agree with @Bepmoht, @Abthree and @Roddiesho about learning Portuguese. For what it's worth, I have found Duolingo very effective if you're not already using it. Best of luck with your adventure.

@bepmoht

Thank you so much for your help!! I really appreciate it ) yes I know a good amount of Spanish due to living here, plus I have studied abroad last summer in Barcelona! I know I definitely have to know a good amount of Portuguese to live there. could you please clarify what you mean by no mls? Do you have to find listings yourself, or a different system? Thank you so much!

@ibdegen

Orange County!

would it be better for me to work remotely since it鈥檚 very hard to find a job in Brazil? I would like to visit and study first before seeing if I would like to do anything further!! any advice about anything related to this is super appreciated. Thank you all for your help so far! 馃榿