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Este foi um vídeo interessante, mostrando maneiras informais e formais de cumprimentar as pessoas em português. É interessante ver as diferentes maneiras de cumprimentar as pessoas no seu dia-a-dia e acho que é uma parte essencial do aprendizagem da língua e da interação com o idioma.

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este artigo é sobre a diversidade do mundo lusoferico. primeiro fala sobre as semelhanças do português africano com o português europeu. Enquanto no Brasil, também havia muita influência africana em português através do iorubá e também do tupi guarani nativo.

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Brazilian, European, and African
Portuguese, while all the same language, have each been forged by unique historical forces. Languages contain history, the effects of cultural movements, the explosive narrative of political upheaval as well as the geological and biological influences of location. Population movements are legible within syntax and heard in pronunciation. Brazilian and African versions of the language were created and shaped by colonialism and the meeting of European settlers and various disparate peoples on continents far from Europe. Speakers of all three variations of Portuguese are considered Lusophones and are part of the Lusosphere, the greater world community of speakers. Within that world is an amazing diversity of culture and history.

African Portuguese is the most similar to European Portuguese

African Portuguese has a more recent genesis and is actually the most similar to European Portuguese. This is because Portugal maintained its rule over its African colonies longer than it did Brazil and these countries still look to the European variety as a standard. Today, Portuguese is spoken in the African countries that were colonized by Portugal as well as others where Portuguese speaking populations migrated. These include Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe. These nation-states are referred to as PALOP (Paises Africanos de Lingua Oficial Portuguesa). South Africa has a sizable population of 300,000 Portuguese speakers, mostly settlers from Angola, Mozambique or Madeira. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, and Zambia have also absorbed Portuguese speakers who fled from the Angolan war and the civil war in Mozambique. Brazilian ex-slaves from Africa also traveled back from slavery in Brazil to the African continent, settling in places like Togo, Nigeria, as well as Angola - and spreading the language wherever they landed.

Today, Portuguese is a post-colonial language in Africa and one of the working languages of the African Union. It is a language of written and broadcast journalism. Like French and English in Africa knowing Portuguese gives you a passport to beautiful locations rich in culture and history. European Portuguese is the prestige norm for African Lusophones. The elites of the former African colonies send their children to Portugal for post-secondary education where European Portuguese remains the standard taught in Europe.

Brazilian Portuguese is nearly its own language

Of the three, Brazilian Portuguese is the most singular, tracing its origins from 16th century Portuguese to the present cornucopia of influences. Words from a broad amalgam of languages including American Indigenous languages, other European languages, various African languages, and even a bit of Japanese are now all heard in Brazilian Portuguese.

Brazilian Portuguese is actually so different from European Portuguese that it has begun to take on an identity of its own. Many foreigners call it Brazilian or Brasileiro. Certainly, Brazilian Portuguese remains Portuguese but there are many unique features. Vowels tend to sound longer and wider, nearly exaggerated in comparison to their pronunciation in European Portuguese where they are annunciated with a nearly closed mouth and with less clear emphasis on the vowel sounds. The "s" sound varies in Brazilian Portuguese depending on the region of Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, the "s" is similar to the pronunciation in European Portuguese - which is a "shh" sound - like a shushing. Whereas in Sao Paulo it is clipped as in the word "super".

Many African and Amerindian words are in Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese also carries the influence of Africans who came as slaves to Brazil's shores from the 16th to 19th centuries. Yoruba is one of the languages they brought with them. Yoruba is the liturgical language of a popular Brazilian variation of an African Diaspora religion - Umbanda. A visitor to Brazil may catch glimpses of small boats being carefully placed into the ocean by devotees of Umbanda as an offering to Yemoja, a female Orixa or divine energy who is the divine Mother and associated with the ocean. Yoruba and Bantu words, originating in Nigeria and the Congo region respectively, are scattered throughout Brazilian Portuguese along with American Indian words. Much of the language for the flora and fauna of Brazil is from the Native tribe Tupi-Guarani. In fact, when Brazil was first settled by Europeans, for many years the Jesuits used a lingua franca that was based on Amerindian languages and African languages spoken by African slaves, this composite language was called Lingua-geral. It was used widely in Brazil until the end of the 18th century when expanding colonization of the interior of the country brought in many more Portuguese settlers, expanding their reach and deepening their influence. As European Portuguese became the country's most important and numerous ethnic group, Portuguese became the national language.

Orthography of Portuguese varies and is standardized today

European Portuguese is more formal than Brazilian Portuguese. African Portuguese retains this formal aspect. Certain verb tenses are also different in Brazilian Portuguese.

To standardize the orthography of Portuguese, that is the conventions for writing the language including capitalization, spelling and punctuation, the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 was created and signed in Lisbon in December, 1990. While still somewhat controversial the document has endured. Brazilian, African and European Portuguese retain their distinctive qualities yet remain one language.

Here at Chang-Castillo and Associates we will help you navigate these variations. Contact us today!

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A língua portuguesa possui uma relevante variedade de dialetos, muitos deles com uma acentuada diferença lexical em relação ao português padrão - o que acontece especialmente no Brasil entre os países que falam o português. Tais diferenças, entretanto, geralmente não prejudicam a inteligibilidade entre os locutores de diferentes dialetos. No Brasil, o dialeto do Rio de Janeiro e o de São Paulo são dominantes nos meios de comunicação.

Vamos ver as características de cada um

1 - CAIPIRA - O dialeto caipira é falado no interior do estado de São Paulo, leste e sul do Mato Grosso do Sul, sul de Minas Gerais, sul de Goiás e norte do Paraná e zonas rurais do sul do Rio de Janeiro. a fonética caipira é marcada principalmente pelo R caipira e trocar o LH por IÉ.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: enxovar (enxoval), mir reais (mil reais), muié (mulher), oiá (olhar), Apeá(descer), saracoteá (provocar os outros), rumá (tomar um rumo), coió (bobo).

2 - COSTA NORTE - por vezes chamado de dialeto cearense - é falado basicamente no Ceará, no Piauí e em parte do Maranhão e Rio Grande do Norte.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: aperrear (encher o saco), chamego (carinho), urubuzar (agourar), racha (pelada de futebol), muriçoca (pernilongo).

3 - BAIANO - O dialeto baiano ou baianês foi um dos primeiros dialetos eminente brasileiros, cujo falantes têm como região geográfica os estados da Bahia e de Sergipe, além do extremo norte de Minas Gerais e do leste de Goiás e Tocantins. Tem como costume abreviar palavras e acabar criando outras com significado que pode ser até diferente do inicial.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: Oxe (ô gente), opaió (olhe para aí), buzu (ônibus), mainha (mãe), painho (pai), retado (Depende do contexto, pode ser bravo ou muito bom).

4 - FLUMINENSE - dialeto usado principalmente na região sul, noroeste e norte do estado do Rio de Janeiro, no estado do Espírito Santo, e com falantes em regiões de Minas Gerais, extremo leste de São Paulo e extremo sul da Bahia.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: perdeu a linha (ato inconsequente), pela-saco (pessoa chata), mó (aglutinação de maior), Ja é (concordância).

5 - GAÚCHO - O dialeto gaúcho ou dialeto guasca predominantemente no Rio Grande do Sul, contudo falado em regiões de Santa Catarina; Fortemente influenciado pelo espanhol, por força da colonização espanhola, e com influência mais reservada do guarani e de outras línguas indígenas.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: campear (procurar), capaz (de jeito nenhum), baita (grande), chimia (geleia de frutas), cusco (cachorro), piá (guri), talagaço (golpe).

6 - MINEIRO - O mineiro ou montanhês é utilizado principalmente nas regiões central e leste de Minas Gerais.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: Sa passado (Sábado passado), ó só pcê vê (olhe só, para você ver), Ês penss qu'ôns é dês (Eles pensam que o ônibus é deles), blusdifri (blusa de frio).

7 - NORDESTINO - é utilizado em Pernambuco, Sergipe, Alagoas, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, na porção sul do Ceará, e em algumas regiões da Bahia, do Piauí e do Maranhão.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: Abirobado (maluco), calibrado (tonto), chupeta (menino chorão), gabiru (aproveitador), gaitada (gargalhada).

8 - NORTISTA - utilizado em todos os estados da bacia do Amazonas (excetuando somente a região do arco do desflorestamento). Considera-se que tenha até quatro sub-dialetos: o cametaense, o dos cocais, o metropolitano e o bragantino.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: G ala seca (idiota), migue (mentira), parlando (se exibindo), ééééégua (muito espanto).

9 - PAULISTANO - utilizado na Macrometrópole de São Paulo (com exceção de alguns municípios que utilizam o dialeto caipira);

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: meu, da hora (legal), truta (amigo), miar (algo que não deu certo), se pá (talvez), canhão (pessoa feia).

10 - SERTANEJO - utilizado nos estados de Mato Grosso, centro-norte de Goiás e noroeste do Mato Grosso do Sul.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: donde (onde, aonde), diacho (exclamação de raiva), de quebra (brinde), dar pinote (fugir correndo), emperiquitar (se arrumar).

11 - SULISTA - utilizado no Paraná, em praticamente todo o estado de Santa Catarina, no noroeste do Rio Grande do Sul e no extremo-sul do estado de São Paulo.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: tri (bastante), guisado (carne moída), cacetinho (pão francês),Bah(interjeição multiuso), cupincha (camarada), borracho (bêbado), pila (dinheiro).

12 - FLORIANOPOLITANO - O dialeto florianopolitano ou manezinho da ilha - é um dialeto utilizado na região metropolitana de Florianópolis e em regiões do litoral de Santa Catarina.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: a bastança (fartura), avião de rosca (helicóptero), atoxei (encher muito), Zóio (olhos) Zorelha (orelha), topeira (ignorante),.

13 - CARIOCA - O sotaque carioca apresenta algumas semelhanças com o português lusitano (de Portugal). Entre tais semelhanças, percebe-se a pronúncia do "S" chiado e as vogais abertas em palavras como "também", é falado na região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, e em áreas próximas;

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: 0800 (gratuito), beleza (cumprimento),bolado (preocupação), coé (qual é), conto (unidade monetária sem plural. "Essa parada custa 10 conto").

14 - BRASILIENSE - dialeto utilizado em Brasília e na sua área metropolitana, resultante dos inúmeros fluxos migratórios ocorridos a partir de 1955, quando se iniciou a construção da nova capital federal;

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: Aff (interjeição), baú(ônibus), camelo (bicicleta), lombra (preguiça/relaxamento).

15 - SERRA AMAZÔNICA - O dialeto da serra amazônica ou como as vezes é chamado, dialeto do arco do desflorestamento, conhecido na sua região geográfica como "sotaque dos migrantes", não é um dialeto coeso, justamente por sua peculiaridade de formação. Esse dialeto existe no sudeste do Pará, sudoeste do Maranhão, norte do Mato Grosso, em Rondônia e no Tocantins. O termo "Serra Amazônica" ou "Amazônico da Serra" foi cunhado pela primeira vez para identificar este dialeto nos trabalhos do I Colóquio de Letras da FPA em 2010.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: broco (sem equilíbrio), cê (você), lapada (pancada), catiroba (pessoa mal-cuidada consigo mesmo), mé (cachaça).

16 - RECIFENSE - O dialeto recifense é um típico da Região Metropolitana do Recife e das regiões da Mesorregião da Mata Pernambucana, no estado de Pernambuco.

Algumas palavras, gírias ou expressões: bote fé (demonstra consentimento), fi de rapariga (origem de todos os insultos universais, rs), sermão (meu irmão), abestalhado (pessoa boba), gera (farra), bença (fechando com chave de ouro, bença é o vocativo universal de todos e todas. Não há no Recife e região uma única pessoa que não possa ser chamada de bença).

Fontes:
revistaescola.abril.com.br/lingua-portuguesa/fundamentos/como-surgiram-diferentes-sotaques-brasil-492066.html Cunha, Celso e Cintra, Lindley. Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo. 12.ª edição. Lisboa. Edições João Sá da Costa. 1996. ISBN 972-9230-00-5 Cintra, Luís Filipe Lindley. Estudos de Dialectologia Portuguesa. 2.ª edição. Lisboa. Livraria Sá da Costa Editora. 1995. ISBN 972-562-327-4 Teyssier, Paul. História da língua portuguesa. 6.ª edição. Lisboa. Livraria Sá da Costa Editora. 1994. ISBN 972-562-129-8 brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/diferencas-entre-lingua-idioma-dialeto.htm "Sotaque branco". Meia Maratona Internacional CAIXA de Brasília G1. "G1: Linguajar cuiabano é tombado como patrimônio imaterial de Mato Grosso". Consultado em 15 de novembro de 2015 "SEDTUR TURISMO | Conheça aqui o Linguajar Cuiabano". SEDTUR TURISMO | Conheça aqui o Linguajar Cuiabano. Consultado em 15 de novembro de 2015 Almeida, Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago; Cox, Maria Inês Pagliarini (2005). Vozes cuiabanas: estudos lingüísticos em Mato Grosso. [S.l.: s.n.] ISBN 9788588504127 "Diferentes "dialetos": as expressões regionais brasileiras". Portal Educar Brasil
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Prepositions are those little words that often follow a verb and describe how the verb relates to whatever it is acting upon - words like de, em, a, com, para, por, sobre.

One of the trickier things about romance languages is remembering what prepositions to use with each verb. Sometimes they make sense to us English speakers ( falar de/sobre), sometimes they don't ( pensar em??), and sometimes you have multiple options to express different nuances in meaning and language registers.

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acabar de fazer algo (to have just finished doing something)

começar a fazer algo (to start doing something)

With all this complexity, it's amazing how many textbooks and dictionaries barely say anything at all about verb-governed prepositions, or just teach you to say ir a with no further comment (and this is one reason why having a good, up-to-date grammar reference is essential).

If you have a good dictionary, usually it will have some example sentences to help you figure out what preposition to use with a verb in each context. But often you need more detail. There are two great online resources for this: the Corpus do Português, and Linguee.com

Corpus do Português

The screencast below shows how to use the Corpus do Português to find out what preposition to use with an example verb, deparar-se.

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Correct use of prepositions is just one of those things you have to learn through experience. There are places where prepositions are required in Portuguese where they wouldn't be in English, and vice-versa. As you begin to become familiar with whole phrases, you will get a feel for how prepositions work in Portuguese, and will begin to use them correctly almost sub-consciously.

To get you started though, here are some examples of phrases which require a preposition in Portuguese that is different to that used (if any) in English:

Puritans of English grammar often say that a sentence should not end with a preposition, because this was the case with Latin. These days though, it is generally accepted that this rule does not apply to English, because to follow it requires some verbal gymnastics - for example, whereas we find it quite natural to say 'he knew what I was talking about' (which ends with a preposition), if you wanted to phrase that without ending with a preposition, you end up with 'he knew about what I was talking'.

Sir Winston Churchill is often credited with saying 'to say that a sentence should not end with a preposition is blatant pedantry, up with which I shall not put!' - as an ironic example of how ridiculous this rule is when applied to English.

However, as Portuguese is much more closely related to Latin than English, I'm afraid this rule does apply to Portuguese. This means learning the gymnastics of rewording your sentences so that they do not end with a preposition. Sorry about that.

Although incorrect use of prepositions will make you sound 'foreign' to a Portuguese speaker, you will still generally be understood, so don't worry about them too much.

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I know how confusing it can be to use the verbs Ser and Estar correctly when you come from a language that doesn't distinguish between the two verbs. That's the case of English, for example. Both Ser and Estar translate as the verb To Be. However in Portuguese we have two verbs and they are not interchangeable.

Last week I published a lesson teaching you eight situations in which to use the verb Ser like a pro. Make sure you get the lesson here.

Today you will learn when to use the verb Estar. I will show you:

The simple present conjugation of the verb Estar

The two main situations in which we use Estar instead of Ser

10 useful expressions with the verb Estar

A tip to speak Portuguese like a Brazilian

Practice exercises with Ser and Estar

In this lesson I will use the simple present tense of Estar. Here's the conjugation:

Eu estou

Você está

Ele/Ela está

Nós estamos

Vocês estão

Eles/Elas estão

I have a flashcard app for Android devices that will help you practice the present and past tenses of power verbs Ser, Estar, Ter, and Ir. Get the app here.

I am working on a PDF, expanded version of the app. Stay tuned! Sign up to receive my newsletter so you learn about the flashcards as soon as I launch them.

1. Temporary Characteristics

We use the verb Estar to express conditions, characteristics, or states that are transitory or not permanent, such as how you feel at a certain moment.

One way to see if you need Estar instead of Ser is to translate the verb to "is feeling", instead of simply "is". If using the verb "to feel" makes sense, then you need Estar in Portuguese. For example:

A Ana está triste porque o André terminou com ela. = Ana is feeling sad because André broke up with her.

This will not apply to every situation, of course (see example 2 below), but will help you in many instances.

Here are examples using the verb Estar to describe temporary characteristics, conditions, or states:

1. Oi, tudo bem? Como estão as coisas? = Hi, how are you? How are things?

2. Tiago está muito cansado hoje. = Tiago is very tired today.

3. Você está linda com esse vestido! = You look great in this dress!

4. Joana está muito feliz porque recebeu uma promoção no trabalho. = Joana is feeling very happy because she got a promotion at work.

2. Location

We use the verb Estar to talk about the location of people, animals, and objects, that is, the location of things that move or can be moved.

Examples:

1. Maria está em casa. = Maria is at home.

2. Lorena está na praia. = Lorena is at the beach.

3. Onde está a chave do carro? = Where is the car key?

Check out my lesson on four different ways to ask "where is" in Portuguese to learn when to use Ser and to use Ficar to express location.

Which sentence is correct below, the one with the verb Ser or the one with the verb Estar?

Both are correct. They express different ideas.

In the first sentence, with the verb Ser, I mean that Juliana is a happy person in general. That's just who she is.

In the second sentence, with the verb Estar, I mean that she is happy at the moment. Maybe she's got good news, or maybe she is enjoying this beautiful, sunny day. The fact is that she is feeling happy at the moment.

All you need to do to customize the expressions below to your needs is conjugate the verb Estar according to the subject of your sentence. The expressions marked in bold below remain the same.

1. Estou com fome. = I'm hungry.

2. Todos estão com fome. = Everyone is hungry.

3. Helena está com sede. = Helena is thirsty.

4. Estou com frio. = I feel cold.

5. Estou com calor. = I feel hot.

6. Márcio está com sono. = Márcio is sleepy.

7. Nós estamos com pressa. = We are in a hurry.

8. Mariana não está com medo. = Mariana is not scared.

9. Ela está com ciúme do namorado. = She is feelings jealous of her boyfriend.

10. Ele está com inveja de você. = He is feeling envious of you.

In spoken Brazilian Portuguese and in informal written Portuguese, we rarely pronounce the full word for the verb Estar. We usually drop the first syllable - "es".

Here are examples:

1. Tô muito feliz hoje. = I'm feeling very happy today.

2. Tá tudo bem com você? = Is everything all right with you?

3. Quem tá com fome? = Who is hungry?

There's no secret to speaking any language fluently and with ease. What you need is lots of practice.

To get even better results, book a lesson to practice with a Street Smart Brazil instructor. We offer Brazilian Portuguese lessons via Skype. It's a simple, convenient, and highly effective way to learn Portuguese.

Fill in the blanks using the verbs Ser or Estar in the present tense. The answers are at the end of the post.
1.
Sueli e Ana _________ boas amigas. Sueli _________ americana e Ana _________ da Argentina. Neste momento elas _____________ no escritório. Elas não _____________ de férias.
2.
Antônio _________ meu amigo. Ele _________ do Brasil, mas agora __________ nos Estados Unidos. Antônio _________ dançarino. Ele _________ muito talentoso.
3.
Meu carro _________ azul. Ele não _________ novo, mas também não _______ velho. Agora ele não _________ na garagem. Ele _________ na rua e ____________ sujo.
4.
EDU: Oi João, tudo bem? Onde você _________? _________ em casa?

JOÃO: Não, _________ no trabalho. Por quê?
5.
Otávio _________ um homem muito ocupado. Ele __________ brasileiro. Agora ele ______________ no aeroporto e _____________ preocupado com seu trabalho. Ele _____________ cansado e por isso _____________ um pouco nervoso.

6. Olá! Meu nome __________ José. Eu __________ brasileiro. Você também _________ brasileiro?

7. Paloma _______ cantora. Ela _______ talentosa.

8. Com licença. Como _________ seu nome? Eu ______________ Manoel.

9. Seu Antônio e Dona Cláudia ___________ casados há 25 anos. Eles ____________ em casa agora.

10. Glória _________ professora. Ela ___________ na escola agora.

11. Hoje ______________ ensolarado e ___________ quente.

12. O dia _____________ lindo hoje.

13. Hoje _____________ chovendo. ______________ muito frio.

1.

Sueli e Ana são boas amigas. Sueli é americana e Ana é da Argentina. Neste momento elas estão no escritório. Elas não estão de férias.

Antônio é meu amigo. Ele é do Brasil, mas agora está nos Estados Unidos. Antônio é dançarino. Ele é muito talentoso.

3.

Meu carro é azul. Ele não é novo, mas também não é velho. Agora ele não está na garagem. Ele está na rua e está sujo.

4.

EDU: Oi João, tudo bem? Onde você está? Está em casa?

JOÃO: Não, estou no trabalho. Por quê?

5.

Otávio é um homem muito ocupado. Ele é brasileiro. Agora ele está no aeroporto e está preocupado com seu trabalho. Ele está cansado e por isso está um pouco nervoso.

6. Olá! Meu nome é José. Eu sou brasileiro. Você também é brasileiro?

7. Paloma é cantora. Ela é talentosa.

8. Com licença. Como é seu nome? Eu sou Manoel.

9. Seu Antônio e Dona Cláudia são casados há 25 anos. Eles estão em casa agora.

10. Glória é professora. Ela está na escola agora.

11. Hoje está ensolarado e está quente.

12.O dia está lindo hoje.

13. Hoje está chovendo. Está muito frio.

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I know how confusing it can be to use the verbs Ser and Estar correctly when you come from a language that doesn't distinguish between the two verbs. That's the case of English, for example. Both Ser and Estar translate as the verb To Be.

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Categories: English Language Learners - Evaluation and Therapy

Determining Differences and Disorders

Understanding Portuguese Speech and Language Development and Structure will help us know which students have a speech or language impairment and which ones have a speech or language disorder.

Portuguese Facts

Number of speakers: Approximately 215 million worldwide. The largest population of Portuguese speakers is in Brazil followed by Portugal.

Writing system: Latin alphabet; written accents denote irregular stress patterns as well as vowel quality.

Language Family: Romance language; closest relative is Spanish

Official language in: Brazil, Portugal; Portuguese is also spoken in some Asian and African countries. Different dialects are spoken in each of these places.

Let's compare English and Portuguese Speech and Language Development

Brazilian Portuguese mostly uses /tʃ/ for T and /dƷ/ for D before the letter [i]. Examples: tíbia [tʃ'ibja] and dígito [dƷ'iʒitu]. These are allophonic variations of [t] and [d] and not additional phonemes. In other words, while in English you have the word "tip" and "chip," where [t] and [ch] result in different meanings, in Brazilian Portuguese those two sounds do not differentiate meaning.

There is also a third sound for the letter R in Brazilian Portuguese: /ɹ/ before a consonant and at the end of a word. Example: cartógrafo [kɐɹt'ɔgɾɐfo].

Portuguese Developmental Norms

Age Group

Consonants

Consonant Clusters

Vowels

3;0-3;5

/p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, ɲ, f, s, ʃ, v, R/

/a, ɐ, i. e. ɛ, o, ɔ, u, ē, ī, ō/

3;6-3;11

/ ʃ (syllable-final position), l, ʎ/

4;0-4;5

/z, ʒ, ɾ/

/pl, kl, fl/

4;6-4;11

/ɾ (syllable-final position)/

/fɾ, vɾ, bɾ, pɾ/

5;0-5;5

/ʄ (syllable-final position)/

/kɾ, tɾ, dɾ, gɾ/

(Lousada, Mendes, Valente, & Hall , 2012)

Comparing Portuguese and English Language Structure

Feature

Portuguese

English

Examples of Errors

Word Order

Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Verb-Object

No expected errors

Possessives

Object+of+Person

Possession marked by 's

The car of my mom is blue*/ My mom's car is blue.

Adjectives

Noun adjective

Adjective noun

The ball big bounced.*/ The big ball bounced.

Present tense verb inflection

5-6 forms, determined by subject:
Eu como Tu comes Ele/Ela come Nos comemos Eles/Elas comem

2 forms:

I eat

You eat

He eats

We eat

They eat

She talk to me.* / She talks to me.

Use of subject pronouns

Pro-drop language (pronoun is dropped before verb once subject is established)

Pronoun or subject is always required

Looks for the frog* / He looks for the frog.

Double negative

Can be used; multiple negative elements occurring in the same clause do not cancel one another but instead reinforce each other

Cannot be used

I don't want to do nothing*/ I don't want to do anything.

Question Formation

Rising intonation is used with word order remaining the same or a question word is used at the beginning of the question with rising intonation.

Questions marked by word order inversion, question words, or addition of do

You give me a sticker?*/ Will you give me a sticker?

What you think?*/ What do you think?

We can go?* / Can we go?

If you want to hone your skills with English Language Learners, take a look at our CLD Essentials Package that will be available on December 1st. It will includes two online courses and a copy of Difference or Disorder? Understanding Speech and Language Differences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students.
More Languages!

Thanks to the great feedback we have gotten from those using the Difference or Disorder book, we've set out to make a second
edition that will include Filipino/Tagalog, Cambodian, Urdu/Hindi, Ibo, Amharic, Portuguese, Turkish, Hmong, Albanian, Thai, Kinyarwanda, Pashto and Romanian. If there are other languages you would like to see, please let us know. For those not familiar with our current book, we've already compared and contrasted English with Spanish, Vietnamese (see post about it), Hebrew, Korean, German, Czech, Japanese, Farsi, Mandarin, French, Russian, Arabic, and the African-American English dialect.
Other Resources:

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Este vídeo inclui informações sobre os diferentes sotaques no idioma português. O que é muito importante para o estudo da lingüística por adiamento da pronúncia na localização. Neste vídeo, o cara (que fala português de Portugal) reage aos diferentes sotaques brasileiros.

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Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation, Video 2: Portuguese Vowels

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Este artigo identifica ditongos. Mais especificamente, esses artigos ajudam a ilustrar como usá-los. Isso é importante para o entendimento da pronúncia.
Vi que ditongos são alguns dos tópicos mais recorrentes sobre os quais falamos na aula.

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A guide to learning Portuguese pronunciation and grammar, in plain English.

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Spanish fluency can go a long way towards helping you learn Portuguese. Here's how.

So, you have mastered Spanish and are ready for the next linguistic challenge. Do you learn Chinese, Arabic, or Pashtun? Language acquisition (LA) is like any other skill, the more you practice, the better you get.

Before committing to a thousand hours of Chinese classes, try honing your skills with a smaller step towards Portuguese. This way, when you do commit to some of the more complex languages, your language learning ability will be well-practiced and streamlined.

Portuguese is a logical next step. It is different enough from Spanish that you will learn new LA skills, but so similar that you will be fluent extremely fast.

Not convinced about learning Portuguese? Read the following paragraph in Portuguese from the Brazilian magazine Veja, edition 2120, Year 42, No. 27, Panorama Section. Then read the Spanish.
Portuguese: Condenado a 150 anos de prisão o financista americano Bernard Madoff. Aos 71 anos, ele é o autor confesso de um dos maiores golpes da história. Madoff montou um esquema de pirâmide, no qual remunerava clientes antigos com o dinheiro dos novos, sem produzir rendimento reais. A eclosão de crise econômica no fim de 2008, revelou a fraude. Spanish:
Condenado a 150 años de prisión el finaciero americano Bernard Madoff. A los 71 años, el es el autor confesado de uno de los mayores golpes en la historia. Madoff montó un esquema pirámide, el cual remuneraba clientes antiguos con el dinero de los nuevos, sin producir rendimiento real. Al comienzo de la crisis económica al fin de 2008, reveló la fraude.

See how close they are to each other? About 30% of the words are the exact same in spelling and/or pronunciation. Another 25% are close to each other. Without knowing any Portuguese, you can probably read 50% of this paragraph. It helps to read it out loud, since some Portuguese words may look a bit different but sound close to Spanish. Imagine what a few hours of focused study, applying the following suggestions, could achieve for your Portuguese fluency.

The tips here are broken into vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation comparisons between the two languages. Before moving further there is a quick hint to keep in mind. When looking at Portuguese, new, funky letters like ç ã â à õ may confuse you. Normally these symbols are extremely important and may change the meaning of a word. However, at the beginning, ignore them.

That's right, Portuguese teachers the world over just cringed. But we want rapid language acquisition, not perfect fluency. Ignoring these letters at the beginning will not greatly affect your reading comprehension and only slightly your speaking and listening skills. Just remember that the letter Ç has the same sound as the English S in SALE.

Vocabulary

The first area to compare between Spanish and Portuguese is vocabulary. Since with some simple hints your Portuguese comprehension will increase dramatically, most of this article is about vocabulary. These hints are divided into sections on word endings, false friends and true friends.

Word Endings

Here are word endings (followed by a sample word) in Spanish and their Portuguese equivalent. You will see the close similarities in both words, once you understand the ending equivalents.

Spanish Portuguese

-ción, sección -ção, seção

-sión, prisión -são, prisão

-able, saludable -avel, saudável

-dad, universidad -dade, universidade

-miento, descubrimiento -mento, descubrimento

-gia, tecnología -gia, tecnologia

Look for these and other word ending similarities as you learn Portuguese. Understanding these word ending equivalents will help you make the connection between the Spanish words you already know and their Portuguese counterparts, increasing your vocabulary immediately.

False Friends

False friends are words that look the same or similar, BUT have different meanings. As an example, in Spanish the word años means years, but the word anos, without the tilde, means anuses. The Portuguese word for years is anos, exactly like the Spanish "anuses". You can see where confusing the words may be embarrassing. Other examples follow:

* Dos in Spanish is the number "two". For Portuguese dos is a contraction of de and os, or "of the" (de los in Spanish).
* Mudar in Portuguese may mean "to change" while in Spanish it is only "to move".
* Estufa in Portuguese may mean "greenhouse", but in Spanish it is always a "stove".
* Graça is "grace" or "free" (de graça) in Portuguese but "grease" or "fat" in Spanish with the word grasa.
* Conosco in Portuguese is "with us", but in Spanish conozco is "I know".

There are also false friends between Portuguese and English. The Portuguese word time is written exactly like the English time but the meaning is completely different. In Portuguese time means team. Looking for false friends will help you avoid common errors as you transition to Portuguese fluency.

True Friends

True friends are words that look or sound the same or similar, AND have the same meaning. An example of a true friend between Spanish and Portuguese is the Spanish word comenzar. In Portuguese it is almost the exact same, começar. When you say them out loud, the similarity is even more obvious. Other examples, this time between written English and Portuguese, are crime=crime, film=filme and present=presente (as in a birthday present).

Here are a few other True Friends between Spanish and Portuguese:

Spanish Portuguese

un, una um, uma

ciudad cidade

cada cada

frecuentar frequentar

cabello cabelo

Comparing the two languages, as in our magazine excerpt above, you will find that true friends are extremely common.

Pronunciation

Reviewing Pronunciation differences between Portuguese and Spanish is the next step in rapid Portuguese fluency. By learning just a few Portuguese sounds, your listening comprehension will increase drastically, as will your spoken Portuguese.

Here they are:

o R at the beginning of a word is an English H sound, as in Hat
o words ending in a vowel and M, as is viagem are really closer to an N sound in pronunciation, like viagen
o The Portuguese ganhou has a similar pronunciation to the Spanish ganó, and both mean the same.

Spend a couple hours learning other pronunciation differences between the two languages. This will drastically raise your level of listening comprehension and spoken fluency.

Grammar

For Grammar, much of the Spanish Grammar is again the same or similar in Portuguese. Sentence structures are close enough that in the beginning you may assume they are the same.

The usage of verb tenses is almost always the same. Written verb tenses are similar, as for example with the Spanish Imperfect tense ending in -aba for AR verbs, like compraba or pintaban. In Portuguese, this tense is written -ava or avam (pronounced similar to -avaN). Compare other Spanish and Portuguese verb tenses to find similarities. You will learn verb tenses much quicker this way than by studying each verb tense alone in Portuguese.

In Spanish the articles un and una have the same gender as the noun. For instance un zapato or una casa. In Portuguese, with um and uma, the rule is exactly the same. For two of something, dos in Spanish, there is no gender difference, dos gatos or dos casas. However, for Portuguese, there is a difference. The number adjective is "conjugated." For example, dois sapatos or duas casas. Fortunately this only applies to the first and second numbers. After that, there is no gender differences for numerical adjectives.

As you continue to learn Portuguese, keep looking for more examples to add to the above sections. Within a couple months you should be mastering your third language. Once you are fluent in Portuguese and are ready for language number four, think about Italian. You are already 20% fluent, I bet.

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How to: Use your Spanish to learn Portuguese

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Spanish fluency can go a long way towards helping you learn Portuguese. Here's how. So, you have mastered Spanish and are ready for the next linguistic challenge. Do you learn Chinese, Arabic, or Pashtun? Language acquisition (LA) is like any other skill, the more you practice, the better you get.

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Portuguese, português or língua portuguesa, belongs to the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. It is a widely-spoken macrolanguage and one of the world's largest languages, ranking sixth after Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, and Arabic. Ethnologue estimates the worldwide population of first-language speakers of Portuguese at around 204.3 million people, while other estimates place the number at 215 million ( Nationalencyklopedin).

After the Roman conquest of the Iberian peninsula, Vulgar Latin replaced the local languages. Along the Atlantic coast, it gradually evolved into Galician-Portuguese. After the incorporation of Galicia into Spain and the independent development of Portugal, it split into Galician and Portuguese.

In the 14th-6th centuries, Portuguese spread to many regions of Asia, Africa and America. By the 16th century, Portuguese had become a lingua franca in Asia and Africa where it was used for colonial administration, trade, and communication between locals and Europeans. Some Portuguese-speaking communities in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia preserved the language even after they were isolated from Portugal. Some of the latter eventually developed into Portuguese-based creoles.

Status

Portuguese spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th centuries as Portugal created a far-reaching colonial and commercial empire spanning countries in Asia, Africa, and South America. Today, Portuguese and Portuguese-based creoles are official, de-facto official, or co-official languages of Brazil (203 million), Portugal (10.8 million), Mozambique (24.7 million), Angola (24.4 million), Guinea-Bissau (1.7 million), East Timor (1.2 million), Macau (588,000), Verde Islands (538,500), São Tomé and Príncipe (190,400). Note that the above numbers are population estimates, not the actual number of first- and/or second-language speakers in these countries.

In 1986, Portuguese became an official language of the European Union (EU). In 1996, the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP) was created to promote cooperation and cultural exchanges among the member countries and to create a Portuguese standard.

on the MLA Interactive Language Map to find out where Portuguese is spoken in the U.S.

Dialects

Portuguese is a pluricentric language, i.e., one that has two standard spoken and and two standard written standards. There are two main groups of dialects: those of the Iberian peninsula (European Portuguese) and those of Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese). The differences between the two involve pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Portuguese varieties spoken in Africa and Asia are closer to those of Portugal than those of Brazil.

European Portuguese is divided into Northern and Southern varieties. The prestige norms are based on the Southern variety as spoken in the capital of Lisbon. The prestige norms of Brazilian Portuguese by-and-large follow those of European Portuguese. Although standard written Brazilian Portuguese was originally based on standard European Portuguese, there are differences between the two involving spelling, lexicon, and, to a lesser extent, those involving grammar.

Structure

Sound system

The sound system of Portuguese features a complex vowel and relatively simple consonant systems.

Vowels

Portuguese has the richest vowel system of all Romance languages. It includes monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, with some differences between the vowel systems of European and Brazilian Portuguese.

The two vowel charts below are based on Wikipedia. Nasal vowels are marked by a tilde. Nasalization is the result of the lowering of the velum, or soft palate, which allows air to escape through the mouth and the nose during the production of the sound.

Consonants

Stress

Primary stress may fall on any of the three final syllables of a word, but mostly on the last two. The final syllable is usually stressed when it contains a nasal, a diphthong, or a close vowel. Some vowels tend to change their quality in unstressed positions.

Grammar

The grammar of Portuguese is Latin-based. As a result, it exhibits many similarities to the grammar of other Romance languages.

Nouns, adjectives, articles, and pronouns

Portuguese nouns are either masculine or feminine. Masculine nouns usually end in -o, -e, or a consonant, feminine nouns usually end in -a. There are some exceptions.

There are no case markings.

There are two numbers: singular and plural. Plural is formed by adding -s.

Adjectives and pronouns agree with the nouns they modify in gender and number.

Definite and indefinite articles agree with nouns in gender and number, e.g., o carro 'the car' - os carros 'the cars', a casa 'the house' - as casas 'the houses,' um carro 'a car' - uns carros 'cars', uma casa 'a house'-umas casas 'houses'.

Prepositions contract with articles, e.g., de + o = do, de + a = da.

Verbs

Verbs agree with their subjects in person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and number (singular, plural).

Pronoun subjects are normally dropped since the verb endings carry information about person and number, e.g., canto 'I sing'.

There are three regular conjugations that can be identified by the infinitive ending, for instance, cantar 'to sing', comer 'to eat', rir 'to laugh'. There are also many irregular verbs.

There are three tenses (present, past, future). Compound tenses are formed with the auxiliary verbs ser 'to be' or haver 'to have'.

There are four moods: indicative, conditional, subjunctive, imperative.

Word order

The most common order in Portuguese is Subject- Verb-Object. Adjectives follow the nouns they modify, e.g., casa branca 'white house'.

Vocabulary

Portuguese vocabulary, for the most part, is derived from Latin with some borrowings from German, Arabic, as well as from Asian, Amerindian, and African languages with which Portuguese explorers and settlers came into contact. Today, English is the major source of borrowings, primarily in the area of science, politics, and technology.

Below are some common Portuguese words and phrases.

Below are the numerals 1-10 in Portuguese.

Writing

Written materials in Portuguese date back to the late 12th century. Literary works appeared in the 13th and 14th centuries. Portuguese is written with a modified version of the Latin alphabet which is given below.

Below are some notable features of Portuguese orthography:

k, w, y are only used for writing borrowed words, e.g., Darwin.

ç = [s], e.g., direção 'direction'

The letter h after consonants indicates palatalization, e.g., ninho 'child' is pronounced as [ninyo].

Brazilian Portuguese uses an umlaut over the letter ü to indicate diaeresis, i.e., that it is pronounced as a full vowel rather than part of a diphthong, e.g., freqüencia 'frequency'.

Acute accent over the vowels í, é, á, ó, ú and circumflex accent over â, ê, ô indicate that the vowel is stressed.

Grave accent over à indicates the contraction of two consecutive vowels in adjacent words, e.g., a + aquela = àquela.

Tilde over the vowels ã and õ represents nasal vowels before other vowels, at the end of words, or before a final -s. It usually coincides with the stressed vowel, unless there is an acute or circumflex accent elsewhere in the words, e.g., direção 'direction.'

-am, -em, -ém, -âm, -en, -én represent nasal diphthongs at the end of words or before final -s.

ou is pronounced as [o].

Modern Portuguese has two orthographic standards: one for Portugal, and one for Brazil. The most notable difference between the two orthographies is that in Brazil the first c in cc, cç, ct, and the first p in pc, pç, pt were eliminated since they are not pronounced. Below are some examples.

Take a look at Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights in Portuguese

Declara ção Universal dos Direitos Humanos
Artigo1
Todos os seres humanos nascem livres e iguais em dignidade e em direitos. Dotados de raz ão e de consci ê ncia, devem agir uns para com os outros em espirito de fratemidade.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Did You Know?

English has borrowed a number of words from Portuguese. A few of them are listed below.

Difficulty

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Portuguese Language - Dialects & Structure - MustGo

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Portuguese, português or língua portuguesa, belongs to the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. It is a widely-spoken macrolanguage and one of the world's largest languages, ranking sixth after Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, and Arabic. Ethnologue estimates the worldwide population of first-language speakers of Portuguese at around 204.3 million people, while other estimates place the number at 215 million ( Nationalencyklopedin).

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Este vídeo foi um bate papo entre duas pessoas. Uma pessoa é portuguesa enquanto a outra é brasileira. Eles estão discutindo a diferença de morar em cada lugar e o vocabulário diferente usado. Eles são capazes de se entender e parece que ele tem muita experiência com o português do Brasil, pelo menos foram capazes de entender um ao outro.

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Brazilian Portuguese vs. European Portuguese | Speaking Brazilian

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Este é um pequeno vídeo explicando a expansão e o poder de Portugal, que essencialmente levam à disseminação da língua. Eu nunca aprendi sobre a conquista portuguesa eu achei muito interessante. A partir disso, vi que, como os portugueses não conquistaram muita terra, mas se concentraram no comércio, tornaram mais difícil a difusão do idioma. A longo prazo, a Espanha detinha mais poder.

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Ten Minute History - The Early Spanish and Portuguese Empires (Short Documentary)