{"id":2344,"date":"2011-06-03T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2011-06-03T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T14:43:57","slug":"the-pronunciation-of-the-ending-ao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-pronunciation-of-the-ending-ao\/","title":{"rendered":"The pronunciation of the ending -\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, there! I&#8217;m Adir Ferreira, your new video blogger from Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to have one video every week and we kick things off by practicing the sound of the ending -\u00e3o in Portuguese. This sound gives English speakers a really hard time so I decided to make a video about it.<\/p>\n<p>For the video I chose five very common words ending in -\u00e3o: <em>m\u00e3o <\/em>(hand), <em>mam\u00e3o <\/em>(papaya), <em>p\u00e3o <\/em>(bread), <em>n\u00e3o <\/em>(no, not) and <em>ch\u00e3o <\/em>(ground, floor). I also provided some example sentences with the words ending in -\u00e3o so you can practice it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that we are only able to produce difficult sounds after listening to them many times, so watch the video, stop it, watch it again and you&#8217;ll see that it gets better every day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pronunciation video: words ending in -\u00e3o\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UNnVG1oTkeA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nos vemos em breve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, there! I&#8217;m Adir Ferreira, your new video blogger from Brazil. We&#8217;re going to have one video every week and we kick things off by practicing the sound of the ending -\u00e3o in Portuguese. This sound gives English speakers a really hard time so I decided to make a video about it. For the video&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-pronunciation-of-the-ending-ao\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}