"I live in Brazil" means that you currently live there. (significa que você atualmente mora lá.) but "I am from Brazil" means that you were born there or grew up there. (significa que você nasceu lá) There is a difference in meaning. Boa pergunta!

Examples: "I live in England." (This means I reside there.) "I am from the USA." (This means I was born there, and/or reside there, and is likely where a significant time of my life was spent, particularly the early years.) **"I am from Norway."/ "My family is from Norway." (This means the origins of the family come from somewhere else.) **Sometimes, there are people who loosely use the word "from" when it comes to where their family migrated from prior to their birth. You may have seen Ancestry.com commercials starring Kelly Ripa. Ms Ripa makes the claim, "I'm from the big toe of that sexy Italian boot!" Ms Ripa has Italian ancestry, but make no mistake about it -- she was born and raised in New Jersey, USA. This is often something Americans and Canadians do when they bypass their actual origins and tell people (for example), "My family's from Scotland." The truth is, they are *not* from Scotland (and chances are, neither are their parents) but their ancestry means enough for them to make this claim.

"I am from Brazil" usually means "I grew up in Brazil, I spent my childhood in Brazil, I went to school and worked in Brazil, and I am Brazilian" "I live in Brazil" just means that you are in Brazil now. An American can live in Brazil for 6 months and say "I live in Brazil." It doesn't mean that he is Brazilian, though. It just means that he is in Brazil temporarily.

When you say Ï live in Brazil" it means you are in Brazil now. When you say I am from Brazil it means you were born, or at least raised, in Brazil but you may not be there now. For example, I was born in Singapore, raised in England and now live in the USA. I was born in Singapore. I am from England. I live in the USA. Some places have different definitions of where you are from. In the USA, in my experience, it is generally where you were born, whether you were raised there or not. Cheers! Robbo

These two sentences almost sound interchangeable, but there is some minor differences. I "live" in Brazil - means that is the place you are residing in right now. I am "from" Brazil - means you were born in Brazil