<P> Você is used for educated, formal and colloquial respectful speech in most Portuguese - speaking regions . In the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, você is virtually absent from the spoken language . In Portugal, it may be considered disrespectful to treat a stranger as você, so the pronoun is either replaced by the name of the person (or a title) or it is omitted, since the verbal conjugation allows the distinction between formal and informal treatment . Riograndense (or Gaúcho) Portuguese normally distinguishes formal from informal speech by verbal conjugation . Informal speech employs tu followed by third person verbs, formal language retains the traditional second person . </P> <P> Conjugation of tu has three different forms in Brazil (verb "to see": tu viste?, in the traditional second person, tu viu?, in the third person, and tu visse?, in the innovative second person), the conjugation used in the Brazilian states of Pará, Santa Catarina and Maranhão being generally traditional second person, the kind that is used in other Portuguese - speaking countries and learned in Brazilian schools . </P> <P> The predominance of Southeastern - based media products has established você as the pronoun of choice for the second person singular in both writing and multimedia communications . However, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the country's main cultural centre, the usage of tu has been expanding ever since the end of the 20th century (see, a linguistic research on the topic in Portuguese), being most frequent among youngsters and a number of studies have also shown an increase in its use in a number of other Brazilian dialects . </P> <P> Modern Standard European Portuguese (português padrão or português continental) is based on the Portuguese spoken in the area including and surrounding the cities of Coimbra and Lisbon, in central Portugal . Standard European Portuguese is also the preferred standard by the Portuguese - speaking African countries . As such, and despite the fact that its speakers are dispersed around the world, Portuguese has only two dialects used for learning: the European and the Brazilian . Some aspects and sounds found in many dialects of Brazil are exclusive to South America, and cannot be found in Europe . However, the Santomean Portuguese in Africa may be confused with a Brazilian dialect by its phonology and prosody . </P>

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