Brazilian Portuguese

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[edit] Introduction

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.