Brazilian Portuguese
Introduction
[edit | edit source]The Portuguese language is the 6th most spoken in the world, with over 200,000,000 native speakers in Brazil alone. (Another estimated 11 million in Portugal.) It's a Category I language, meaning that it is relatively easy for a native English speaker to learn. How easy is it? And how hard does it get?
Things you'll find easy about learning Brazilian Portuguese:
- Sentence structure is close to English
- Very similar to Spanish vocabulary-wise
- Phonetic (every word follows a pronunciation pattern)
The hard part?
- Producing nasal sounds
- Open and closed vowels (sounds intimidating but I'm sure you can master it in less than 30 minutes)
- Complex conjugation system
- The many verb tenses
| But that's just a heads-up warning. Let's not worry about what's hard just yet. These lessons , we're going to start out easy and slowly work our way up in difficulty. |
| How does this course work? I will provide lessons organized in chapters. And coming soon, I will provide activities and vocabulary sheets available in PDF format for you to print and work on. (Because I don't know about you but I like holding my vocabulary sheets in my hand and being able to highlight the words I know that I know.) |
| What do you need? Your brain mostly. Maybe a little bit of motivation on the side. But motivation isn't necessarily needed to learn something. But it helps a lot. |
And finally, this course isn't designed to be a chore! It's designed to be fun! Don't feel you have to drag yourself through bits you don't like or find boring. No one's looking if you skip a lesson. But at the same time, don't give up when it gets tough!
Contents
[edit | edit source]This section is currently under construction, so information on the contents page may differ from content in each lesson
1. Lesson One
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2. Lesson Two
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3. Lesson Three
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4. Lesson Four
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5. Lesson Five
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6. Lesson Six
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7. Lesson Seven
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8. Lesson Eight
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9. Lesson Nine
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WATCH THIS SPACE- Intermediate level lessons coming soon
More useful resources
[edit | edit source]- /Irregular verbs- Some common, irregular verbs conjugated in the present tense
- /Useful words- Some basic, yet important words that you should know
- /Portuguese-speaking countries- Information about Portuguese speaking countries, to help bolster your cultural knowledge
- /Verb conjugation table- The 3 regular verb conjugations and most-used irregular conjugations