Brazilian Portuguese

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.

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

This section is currently under construction, so information on the contents page may differ from content in each lesson

1. Lesson One Pronunciation How to produce nasal sounds

2. Lesson Two Theme: The Basics Grammar: Articles and pronouns Vocabulary: Greeting words

3. Lesson Three Theme: Numbers, date and time Vocabulary: Numbers, months, days of the week, seasons

4. Lesson Four Theme: Family and friends Grammar: Possessive adjectives Vocabulary: Family and friends

5. Lesson Five Theme: Food and drink Vocabulary: Food and drink

6. Lesson Six Theme: Questions Vocabulary: Question words

7. Lesson Seven Theme: An introduction to adjectives Grammar: Gender of adjectives Vocabulary: Adjectives

8. Lesson Eight Theme: An introduction to regular verbs Grammar: Conjugating regular verbs in the present tense Vocabulary: Verbs

9. Lesson Nine Theme: An introduction to irregular verbs Grammar: Conjugating irregular verbs in the present tense Vocabulary: Irregular verbs

WATCH THIS SPACE- Intermediate level lessons coming soon

More useful resources

• /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

See also

• Portal:Portuguese