Tag Archives: informal Portuguese
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…
É assim não! Posted by Rachel on Dec 17, 2008
One of the most important things to bear in mind when learning Portuguese is that there is a big difference between written Portguese, which is more formal and sticks to the grammar books, and oral Portuguese, which is a whole different story. One place where this becomes apparent is the use of the word “não”…