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Review: Asking Questions in Portuguese – The Answers! Posted by Adir on Oct 10, 2014
Hello there! Here are the answers to the review we posted earlier this week. Check your progress and if you didn’t get many answers right, try again! 1. Eles moram em São Paulo. — Onde eles moram? 2. Tem doze meses no ano. — Quantos meses tem no ano? 3. O avião chegou às dez…
Review: Asking Questions in Portuguese Posted by Adir on Oct 6, 2014
Salve, pessoal! Today we have a little grammar exercise: asking questions. Below you have several sentences. You have to ask a question starting with the question word I provided, ok? Post your answers in the comment are. The answers will come in a couple of days! Vamos lá! 1. Eles moram em São Paulo. —…
How To Say “I Had Done” in Portuguese Posted by Adir on Sep 30, 2014
Olá, pessoal! In today’s post we are going to learn how to say “I had done”, “I had gone”, “I had worked” etc. It’s simple: use the verb “ter” in the imperfect form (tinha, tinha, tinha, tínhamos, tinham, tinham) + the past participle of the main verb. Here’s an example with regular verb trabalhar (to…
How To Use “Há” or “A” Posted by Adir on Sep 15, 2014
Hello there! If you’ve been studying Portuguese for some time you may have noticed that we have a lot of homophones – those words that sound the same but are written somewhat differently (homo = same; phono = sound). As these words are confusing, many people don’t get them write when they write them. Such…
Grammar: Contractions with Countries and Cities Posted by Adir on Sep 12, 2014
Olá pessoal! Portuguese has some preposition + article contractions that foreign students don’t always get right. So first let’s review the most common contractions with em (at, in, on) and de (of, from). Em em + o = no em + a = na em + os = nos em + as = nas De…
Pronunciation Practice: A Outra Noite Posted by Adir on Sep 9, 2014
Olá, pessoal! In this post we’re going to practice our pronunciation and reading in Portuguese. Below you have a text called “A Outra Noite”, by Rubem Alves. I recorded the text in regular speed (not too slow and not too fast) so you can follow with the text. My study tip is: listen to the…
Dialogue: Life Without Computers Posted by Adir on Aug 20, 2014
A good way of learning a foreign language is studying the same dialogue over and over again. That way you’ll be able to see the same structure and end up noticing some patterns in grammar, vocabulary and also pronunciation. So were we go! Listen to the audio many times and *MASTER* this conversation! A Vida…