Of the roughly 176 million native Portuguese speakers in the world, 165 million live in Brazil.
Much like the difference between British and American English, the differences between Standard Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese mostly include pronunciation and vocabulary.
While the Portuguese spoken in Portugal and in Brazil are mutually intelligible, they are still quite different in some aspects.
Brazilian vocabulary includes a lot of loan words from languages like Italian, Spanish, German and even Japanese. The syntax of Brazilian Portuguese also differs from Standard Portuguese.
SOURCE: http://resources . globalizationpartners . com/blog/brazilian-portuguese-language-translation-ebook
