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Resolvi fazer a minha participação neste blogue em língua estrangeira neste caso o Inglês com a tradução dos textos que já tinha publicado em Outubro, mais precisamente com os títulos de portugal no seu melhor, e Portugal no seu melhor parte 2 .Aqui fica em inglês .

Portugal at It´s best

Following up the subject of opinion started by Ângelo Teodoro about the Portuguese people depreciate their own country, I do think that in reality we should not have that feeling as have done and still do things that contribute worldwide and have left marks until nowadays as we can see:
1- Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world , the third most spoken in the western languages , after English and after Castellan, being the official language in nine countries and one administrative region distributed by four continents (american,african,asian and European),it´s used as the second language for 20 million persons .It´s the official language of 190 million and 235 million persons distributed by the following countries:
Angola (16,9 millions of inhabitants),Brazil (191 million),Cape Verde (500 mil),Guinea Bissau (1,4 million),Mozambique (20 million),Portugal (10,5 million),São Tomé e Príncipe (182 thousand),East Timor (1,1 millions) Equatorial Guinea (616 thousand) and in the special administrative region of Macau (538 thousands).
We should not forget as well the 4 million Galician and more than 3 million Galician emigrated in countries as Argentina, Uruguay, and Cuba, because the Galician is no more no less than a evolution of the Galician-Portuguese.

2- The Portuguese culture besides the language is present as well worldwide in countries as far as Iran or Brazil. Here is a comprehensive list of edifications built by Portugal in the world, 22 of them are world heritage, and as you can read we have twenty seven good reasons to elevate our ego for being Portuguese.

Fort of Hormuz –Hormuz, Iran
Historical city centre of Malacca –Malacca, Malaysia
Fort of Muscat – Muscat, Oman
Carmo monastery – Luanda, Angola
Old city of Santiago –Santiago, Cape Verde
New Gorgora - North bank of Lake Tana, Ethiopia
São Jorge da Mina Castle – São Jorge da Mina, Ghana
Fortified city of Mazagan – Mazagan, Morocco
Safi Fortress – Safi, Morocco
Church of Santo Antonio – Mozambique Island, Mozambique
Fortress of Jesus de Mombasa – Mombasa, Kenya
Fortress of Kilwa – Kilwa, Tanzania
Monastery of Santo Antonio and Ordem Terceira – Recife, Brazil
Monastery of São Francisco and Ordem Terceira – Salvador, Brazil
Monastery of São Bento of Olinda – Olinda, Brazil
Fortress of Principe of Beira – Banks of river Guapore, Brazil
Monastery of São Bento of Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sanctuary of Congonhas do Campo – Congonhas do Campo, Brazil
São Francisco da Penitência de Ouro Preto - Ouro Preto , Brazil
Colónia do Sacramento – Colónia do Sacramento , Uruguay




Sérgio Silva

TT 05/09