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E agora - and now - the question is, What makes a noun masculine or feminine? If you have been perceptive, you may have picked up on some of the patterns. Let's look at the following examples: DETERMINATION OF GENDERMasculine---When? Feminine---When?gato=

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Some Advice First Portuguese grammar is not too difficult to learn compared to other Romance languages. There are fewer "idiomatic irregularities," if you will, than there are in French or Italian. The syntax is also generally much closer to English. It has been traditionally thought that building a basic knowledge of the grammar

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É meu e vosso este fado(This fate is yours and mine)destino que nos amarra(Destiny that binds us)por mais que seja negado(No matter how much it is denied)às cordas de uma guitarra(To the strings of a guitar)Sempre que se ouve um gemido(Whenever one hears a lament)duma guitarra a cantar (Of a guitar singing)fica-se logo perdido(One is instantly lost)com vontade de chorar(With a wish to cry)Ó gente

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Letter Portuguese example English approximation Pronounced like this whenb basquetebol(basquetebol) bake as in English_c construido(constructed) case before a,o,u sounds like c in casec cenoura (carrot) bicycle before e,i sounds c in bicycle_ ch

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Nasal sounds are not as difficult to pronounce as you hear them in Portuguese or other languages like French, because they are not foreign to the English phonology at all. All words with a -ng suffix in English are nasalized, such as bring, hang, and song, same for the sound of (Ng) in Cantonese. The

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Some say that Portuguese pronunciation is among the most difficult to learn of Romance languages. It does have many rules, but there are very few exceptions. Below is a table of the Portuguese phonetic sounds. The actual alphabet is just like in English but without k, w, and y, and with the addition of ç, ã, and õ.VOWELS ( AND DIPHTHONGS )There

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Brazilian Portuguese is an offshoot of the language of the mother country, Portugal. With eighteen times the population of Portugal and 5,254,630 square miles (8,456,510 km2), Brazil is significantly larger than Portugaltelenovelas), a fact that may explain why European Portuguese have an easier time understanding spoken Brazilian than the other way around, although there's no such thing as a

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I know a lot of people who tend to say that music has really helped their language learning experience in a positive way or is helping them to get a grip on their target language ( It helped me a bit with my English ). I agree with them, although I have to say that you must not rely too much on songs for language learning. Usually words are changed in a way that they sound nice, but they're not

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The Portuguese alphabet consists of the following 23 latin letters :Majuscule Forms ( also called as Upper case or Capital letters ) :ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVXZMinuscule Forms ( also called as Lower case or Small letters ) :abcdefghijlmnopqrstuvxzAlthough not used in vernacular terms, the letters K, W, and Y may appear in borrowings and personal names, and in words derived from them.Letter =

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NUMBERS ( Written form and how to pronounce it )0 = Zero ( Zehro )1 = Um ( oohm )2 = Dois ( Doh-ysh/ Doh-yz [bp] )3 = Três ( Tray-sh/ Tra-yz [bp])4 = Quatro ( Kwah-troo/ Kwah-troh [bp] )5 = Cinco ( Sink-oo / Sink-oh [bp] )6 = Seis ( Saysh / Sayze [bp] )7 = Sete ( Seh-te / Seh-chee [bp] )8 = Oito ( Oy - too )9 = Nove ( Noh-ve / Noh-vee [bp] )10 = Dez ( De-sh / Dez [bp] )---------------------------

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In 1542 the three Portuguese became the first Europeans to visit Japan, when their ship sailed off course and reached the southern tip of Japanese Archipelago. This initiated the Nanban ("southern barbarian") period of active commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West.Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese jesuit priests introduced

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A Lusophone is someone who speaks the Portuguese language natively or by adoption. As an adjective, it means "Portuguese-speaking". The word itself is derived from the name of the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which covered an area that is today Portugal.The definition of "Lusophone" reaches beyond the dictionary definition of "Portuguese speaker". The term refers to people whose cultural

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Just in case there's anybody out there still wondering "why should I learn Portuguese?" - here are some boas razões ( Good reasons )!To speak with over 200 million people around the globe who speak PortugueseTo enjoy traveling throughout Portuga, Brazil, & some african countriesBecause bilingual people are more marketable and have more career choicesBecause learning Portuguese is fun! It's a

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IntroductionWelcome to this brand new weblog called "Learning Portuguese 101".As the title states this weblog is about learning Portuguese. But it doesn't sum up to the language aspects, it's my intention to cover also some particularities of the tradition, culture, music and food of the lusophone countries.If you have come to this blog, changes are that you are interested in learning the

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