You know we have a lot of English words used in our day-to-day  here in Brazil. Some of them are so embedded (incorporada) in our idiom that we didn’t notice that are foreign words.

The  English language is spoken as mother language in the: Reino Unido,  Estados Unidos, Canadá, República da Irlanda, Austrália, Nova Zelândia, África do Sul, Caribe Anglofônico and as a second language in several other countries.

See some of them: on-line or online, off-line, shopping, outdoor, chat, design, fast-food, notebook, lan-house, ipod, laser, fast food, pet shop, performance, drag queen, flash, milk shake, personal trainer, airbag, ketchup, pole position, hot dog, cowboy, mouse, home theater, software, hardware, e-mail or email, office-boy, skate, piercing, remix, desktop, reality show, day off, show room, casual day, full time, part time, single, room service, check in, check out, happy hour, free time, home office, delivery, revenue, saving  and so on.

Now see some of them in phrases:

You can chat to other people who are online (or on-line).

Most software programs allow you to compose programs emails (or e-mails) offline.

When a racing car is in pole position, it is in front of the other cars at the start of a race.

James works as assistant chef at a fast food restaurant.