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Offering, accepting and refusing in Portuguese Posted by carol on Sep 23, 2017
[Oferecer, aceitar e recusar em Português] Communicating something at a basic level in a idioma estrangeiro (foreign language) is a great achievement, but the ability to do that in a colloquial manner or not, according to each occasion, is a setp further towards fluency. In case you are, or intend to go, to a Portuguese…
Verbs + their prepositions in Portuguese Posted by carol on Sep 14, 2017
[Verbos + suas preposições em Português] Ei, pessoal! Tudo bem? Hey guys! Are you ok? Just like in English, some verbs in Portuguese call for a specific preposition to come after the verb in a sentence. Don’t worry about memorizing any of them, just remember that the best way to improve your skills is to…
[Portuguese listening/reading practice] – Sobre cães e gatos Posted by carol on Aug 31, 2017
Ei, pessoal! Hi, everyone! This month’s Portuguese listening and reading practice is a text entitled Sobre cães e Gatos (About Cats and Dogs) by Portuguese comedian Ricard Araújo Pereira. It talks about the difference between the two animals and their relation to their owners and humans in general. I hope you like it! Let’s remember…
[Time tenses in Portuguese] – The present continuous Posted by carol on Aug 29, 2017
[Tempos verbais em Português] Ei, galera! Hey, guys! Possibly one of the greatest challenges for Portuguese learners is mastering the large variety of time tenses in our language. With that in mind, we are going to run a new post series with the aim of showing and explaining verbs in the past, present and future…
How to use the word ‘será’ in Portuguese Posted by carol on Aug 20, 2017
Que será, será. Whatever will be, will be. If you remember this sucessful Doris Day song, popular until today, you’ve probably wondered: but what does será means? Strictly speaking, the word será is the future form of the verb to be in the third person singular. Take a look at the conjugation of the verb…
[Portuguese listening/reading practice] – A melhor coisa do avião Posted by carol on Jul 31, 2017
Olá, pessoal! Hey, guys! Today we’ll have another installment of our Portuguese listening/reading practice series. Hope you are enjoying them! The text is called A melhor coisa do avião é o que ele ainda não tem (The best thing about an airplane is what it still hasn’t got) again by Brazilian comedian Gregório Duvivier from…
How to use the word “nossa” in Portuguese Posted by carol on Jul 29, 2017
Ei, galera! Hey, guys! Last post we covered the many possibilities of the adverb ainda. Today, we’ll move on to another very popular term in our language: nossa. It is, again, one of those words that is so common that Brazilians likely use it on a daily basis. Nossa is literally a possessive pronoun for…