Top Gestures used by Portuguese People

No, this has nothing to do with Portuguese sign language.  But linguists argue that only about 30% or so of our real communication is directly through words. The rest is a combination of other linguistic elements such as intonation, pitch, volume, facial and body language.

So a few months back we started gathering what we think are the most commonly used gestures by the Portuguese.

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Obrigada, Carla