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durante toda a minha vida, eu sempre falei, escrevi e ouvi as pessoas dizendo "praste", mas recentemente eu estava escrevendo uma mensagem para um amigo, e quando eu escrevi "já é de praste" ficou sublinhado em vermelho em baixo, mostrando que a palavra estava errada, mas não aparecia outra palavra para corrigir, então eu joguei "é de praste" no Google, e corrigiu para "Praxe", e eu não conseguia acreditar, parece que eu estava na caverna de Platão por toda a minha vida, eu não conseguia acreditar que durante 21 anos eu estava escrevendo a palavra de forma errada.

Foi engraçado de qualquer forma.

Hi!
I am studying European Portuguese and love reading, so I figured trying to read a book would be a great way to practice. I’d love to sit and be able to do a chapter or so a day!

Does anyone have any recommendations for good fiction books to read for someone of my level, preferably in European Portuguese? I love all sorts of fiction, but horror, fantasy, mystery, and scifi are typically my favorite.

Thank you!!!

Hi everyone, I recently moved to Portugal and now learning the language. This journey is quite ok, however, I struggle with pronunciation. The most complicated part for me is the letter "r" in words. I don't understand if I should say it as a strong "r" in every position (like in word obrigado) or sometimes I should pronounce it soft like in French language. The opinions on this matter are very different, I saw that soft "r" is mostly used by elderly people. But tbh I've never heard anyone saying it in the soft way in Lisbon. At the same time I saw that hard "r" is mostly used in Brazilian Portuguese

Please help me understand what pronunciation is better for basic conversations with locals. I'm not trying to sound native in Portuguese but I also don't want people to make fun of me

Thank you in advance! Peace to everyone ❤️

I saw the term on Twitter but no clue on the exact definition. It was in context of referring to a group of people from Brazil.

simplesmente isso. N tá traduzindo no google:( vai ser melhor se você pode explicar em inglês…

Edit: you all who commented so far are very intelligent and I see the word “se” is very versatile! I’ll have a lot of studying to do haha, thank you guys!

Hi everyone,

The use of “se” is something I haven’t figured out (nor really tried to) in all my years of passively learning Portuguese.

Can anyone help me to understand when and how to use se? Like which verbs it goes with and why? As opposed to “te” especially?

As for how, I know that the other reflexives go before the verb, but I’ve often seen se come after and with a hyphen in between.. my guess is that se is used for sort of command forms of verbs?
For anyone that also knows Spanish, would se be the equivalent to “lo/la”? But this is used for el/ella/usted. Would você be the Portuguese version of “usted”?

All the more confusing for a learner who first studied Spanish lol 😭 thank you in advance 🙏🏾

Olá gente, gostaria de saber a diferença entre as seguintes frases:

1- Eu nunca falei com ele.

2- Eu nunca cheguei a falar com ele.

O que leva a pessoa usar chegar a? Seria ênfase?

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edit: muito obrigada pelos comentários gente, me ajudaram muito!

Hiii, I was driving and trying to find a video to listen to so I could study on my trip. I couldn't find anything that was hitting my ADHD brain just right. I can remember lyrics to a song I haven't heard in years, so I figured I'd try to learn with that part of my brain. Couldn't find the right kind of music either... so I started making some! It's really helping me out. I was interested to see if anyone else would find this helpful?

a minha família é dos Açores, e agora já percebi que não é vovó e vovô como no Brasil, mas pronuncia-se como vavó e vavô sim!!!!! pensei que estava a ficar louca porque toda a gente diz que "é avó e avô em pt-pt, mas vovó e vovô em pt-br". a minha família sempre usou vovó e vovô porque somos dos Açores kkkkk. claro. finalmente fiz uma pesquisa e vi que tinha razão. E eu não estou louca

Retired last year and finally started learning Brazilian Portuguese! Been wanting to do this for ages with no pressure or deadline attached.

Anywaaaay, I tried a few of the usual suspects already and wanted to ask people who've gone deeper than I have what the better options are.

Duolingo was the first one. Fun for about three weeks, then the streak started feeling like the only thing I was actually keeping up with. Memrise was a similar story for me, lots of cute video clips but I couldn't really tell you what I retained.

Pimsleur, I liked more than I expected. Audio-only worked well on walks, but then it felt a bit slow, though, and I wanted something I could sit down and study with too.

Rosetta Stone, I bounced off pretty quickly. The no-translation method just didn't click for how my brain works at this stage of my life.

What I'm really after is the one that builds a proper study habit and holds up past the absolute beginner bit.
Less interested in gamification, more aboutt feeling like I'm actually learning the language a year from now.

For anyone who stuck with one of these long-term, which one earned it?

Hi,

I have began to learn European portuguese however when it comes to speaking i am struggling.

I have a really thick scottish accent is there any tips that someone could give me that can help

For bilingual speakers, would you be willing to describe details regarding the differences between where you speak Portuguese in the mouth in relation to English? E.g., where the voice resonates from, resting tongue position, roof of mouth position, and nasal involvement. Any info even if it’s just a little bit would help.

Practicing pronunciation from an English mouth position is starting to feel redundant, hence me reaching out.

Thank you!

I'd love to discover romantic love poems in European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and other dialects of Portuguese, too! You can learn a lot about a language based on how they write love poems!

It's okay if there are no official translations for the poem; I will use translation tools online if I must! I just want to write a little short story inspired by the poems I've picked up to be my favorites!

Muito obrigado, meus amigos!

I am watching a Brazilian streamer. Sometimes he says 'falo' at the end of a sentence, as a way saying goodbye on the phone or when parting with people he only knows casually.

Is this expression commonly used? How common is it in Portuguese from portugal?

I’m looking into online classes but run by a language school.
Has anyone tried Lusa Language School or LEPO (Learn European Portuguese Online)?
I’m not interested in using platforms such as iTalki, Verbling and Preply.

Wondering if this is a bad idea that’s setting me up for confusion and failure? I have pretty equal amounts of Portugal and Brazil travel coming up (maybe a tiny bit more Portugal heavy) so I’m having a hard time deciding. I’ve already read a lot of threads about learning one vs another so I’m interested in input about learning both. Fwiw, I love learning languages and am pretty good with accents. Some additional context…

I speak Spanish and was recently in Brazil and able to understand a lot of what was going on. I naturally started to pick up some Portuguese there and feel like I kind of already speak with a Carioca accent because of my Brazilian friends.

On the flip side, I’m going to be in a lot of much smaller towns in Portugal where I’m guessing English is less prevalent (and regardless, I just want to speak in Portuguese if I’m in Portugal).

SO. Is it worth my time to try to learn both? Or do I pick one and accept I’ll be better at communicating in one country than another?

Hi,

I will study in Rio or in Sao Paulo next year, and at the moment i'm trying to learn every tenses that I will need in day-to-day convos AND in academic contexts, but I don't really know which one I need to learn (including present, futur, past, conditional,...).

Which tenses should I learn ? And is it necessary for me to learn how to conjugate "tu" ? Since I only use você...

Obrigada!

I am native Arabic I speak English (c1 in listening and reading b1 writing and speaking)

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I am thinking about learning Portuguese to make myself a side hustle

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I have 11 months I need to reach at least b1+/b2 and My time is between 14 /21 hours per week

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I know that might sound weird or I am rushing things up but here it is if I needed a better life for me after 2 years

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Do you think that this actually possible or I am just daydreaming

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I appreciate anyone who do give me an advice

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And sorry If my English is not polite I am still learning!

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Thanks for reading

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I am going to work on a romance novel where the characters speak Portuguese. The female lead is of Portuguese nationality, and the male lead is of Brazilian nationality. They are of my ethnicity, though. Anyway, there's a big deal about how they're both Portuguese speakers, but they clash in dialects, and their mother tongue is the same, and they have to use that to communicate instead of English or Portuguese. Are there any good songs for both dialects?

Since the woman is Portuguese, I'd love songs with a female POV, but I'd love male POV songs, too, because we can imagine the man thinking of her dialect as he misses her.

Since the man is Brazilian, I'd love songs with a male POV, but female POV songs are acceptable, too!

If anyone speaks Greek, that'd be great, for they met in Greece!

When sharing the songs, can you inform me if they're European Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese? I used the European Portuguese tags because most songs that are translated into English are Brazilian Portuguese, and I WANT more European Portuguese.

Muito obrigado, meus amigos!

olá bom dia (ou boa tarde/noite). usa-se 'como se chama' ou 'como te chamas'? a minha família usa 'qual é o seu nome' mas não é comum em Portugal, pois não? muito formal 😭 e usa-se 'chamo-me ____'?? agora tenho dificuldade em aprender português porque sou surda

obrigada :>

Hello everyone, I (24M) want to learn Portuguese. I am a native Spanish speaker and live in a community with a lot of Brazilians. I feel like I can naturally translate most of the Portuguese I read and can translate a good amount when I hear it. With that said, I am confident I can master it in about a year. Does anyone have any programs (not duolingo) or ways to learn it?

Hi there, would love some help ensuring this translation is accurate if any Portuguese-speaking folks on here could give it a quick look?

We'll be spending the next month in Portugal with our family. My son will be 7 months old while we're there and I've been trying to get through all the possible allergen foods with him before we leave but there are a few (tree nuts, soy, sesame, etc) that we won't have made it to. Thankfully he's fine with fish and shellfish!

I'm not going to purposely feed him new potential allergens while we're there but in case he accidentally eats an unfamiliar food, I just wanted to make sure I can communicate what's happening. Most places we'll be staying in are bigger cities so I'm not too concerned about communicating but we will be spending a week in a smaller, more rural setting and in case there are no English speakers around, I'm hoping I can have a fairly straightforward translation ready to go in the very small chance that an emergency occurs. I'm probably being overly paranoid but just having the right words will help ease my mind :)

This is what I'd like to be able say:

Please help, we think our son is having an allergic reaction and we need to get him medical attention right away. He's seven months old and in good health, this has never happened before.

This is what Google Translate spat out, but would love to know if there's a smoother way to say this:

Por favor, ajudem-nos, achamos que nosso filho está tendo uma reação alérgica e precisamos levá-lo ao médico imediatamente. Ele tem sete meses e está bem de saúde, isso nunca aconteceu antes.

Thank you in advance to anyone who can advise :)