How do we pronounce Rio de Janeiro?
Is Rio pronounced HIO?
Which brings us to
Rio, which as you’ve probably just guessed, is not
pronounced “
Rio” at all. It’s more like “
Hio“. Seriously, that’s how you
say it. “
Hio” de Janeiro.
What does Rio de Janeiro mean in English?
The name
Rio de Janeiro, which translates in
English to literally ‘January River’, was the result of a mistake by Portuguese explorer Gaspar
de Lemos. Lemos left Portugal in 1501 on an expedition and arrived at a huge bay in Brazil, known nowadays as Guanabara Bay, the following January.
How do you say Rio de Janeiro in Brazilian Portuguese?
