PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE by Sofía Gonzalez https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0 Paola Sofía Sanjur González 4-737-1050 / Welcome to the beautiful ROMANCE language en-us 2023-08-10 02:10:20 UTC 2023-08-11 03:16:28 UTC hello@padlet.com OVERVIEW OF THE LANGUAGE gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659776770 Portuguese language, developed or originated in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC.  Portuguese owes its importance as the second Romance language, after Spanish, in terms of numbers of speakers largely to its position as the language of Brazil, where in the early 21st century some 187 million people spoke it. ]]> 2023-08-10 23:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659776770 PORTUGUESE PRONUNCIATION gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659782691 2023-08-11 00:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659782691 VOWELS AND CONSONANTS gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659789669 2023-08-11 00:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659789669 LOOK AT THIS! gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659790714 2023-08-11 00:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659790714 LISTEN! gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659819445 Portuguese is a pluricentric language and has some of the most diverse sound variations in any language.  There is a maximum of 9 oral vowels, 2 semivowels and 21 consonants; though some varieties of the language have fewer phonemes. There are also five nasal vowels, which some linguists regard as allophones of the oral vowels. 
 
]]> 2023-08-11 01:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659819445 PORTUGUESE VS ENGLISH gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659826421 2023-08-11 01:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659826421 CONSONANTS TRANSCRIPTION EXAMPLES gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659828981 /b/        beiço, âmbar
/d/        dedo, lenda     
/f/        fado, café
/ɡ/        gato, signo
/k/        cor, dica, 
/l/         lua, alô            
/ʎ/        lhe, velho        
/m/       mês, somo      
/n/        não, sono        
/ɲ/        nhoque, sonho           
/p/        pó, sopa
/ʁ/        rio, carro
/s/        saco, isso
/ʃ/         chave, achar
/tʃ/       tchau, atchim  
/t/         tempo, átomo  
/v/        vela, livro
/ʒ/        já, gente
/z/        casa, os amigos. 
]]> 2023-08-11 01:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659828981 VOWEL TRANSCRIPTION EXAMPLES: gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659829573 /ɐ/        falámos, 
/e/        venho, sê         
/ɛ/        prémio, sé
/i/         si, dia,
/ɔ/        formosa, formosos, avó
/o/        formoso, alô    
/ow/     Sousa
/u/        rua, lúcido
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Subject+Verb+Object. Both have the same order. 
Portuguese:  O Pedro comprou um carro.
English:        Peter bought a car.

·Grammar Terminology. Both languages use similar terminology and conceptualize grammar and syntax in the same way for example: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

DIFFERENCES
·Articles and Possessives pronouns. In Portuguese, and contrary to English, possessive pronouns are normally preceded by an article:

Portuguese: A minha casa é branca.
English: My house is white.
 
Portuguese: O meu casaco is castanho escuro.
Englsih: My jacket is dark brown.





]]> 2023-08-11 01:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659833860 Sample text in Portuguese gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659839189 Todos os seres humanos nascem livres e iguais em dignidade e em direitos. Dotados de razão e de consciência, devem agir uns para com os outros em espírito de fraternidade.

]]> 2023-08-11 01:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659839189 SAMPLE TEXT IN ENGLISH gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659840621 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.]]> 2023-08-11 01:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659840621 Why this research has been academically beneficial for you as a student at a Postgraduate level? gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659846607 Portuguese is the seventh most spoken language in the world, for me as a postgraduate student it has been very interesting research on this wonderful language because I realized that just like English, Portuguese is crucial to access information in many of the specialized sectors that are particularly significant. in Brazil, such as finance, oil and gas, mining and information technology. However, not all of the population speak fluent English. Learning some Portuguese will certainly give you a great advantage when we travel. Or just to expand knowledge. ]]> 2023-08-11 01:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659846607 OPEN AND CLOSED VOWELS gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659848127 2023-08-11 01:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659848127 gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659850555 This amazing romance language like Portuguese has many curiosities. It´s an increasingly studied language that opens interesting professional doors, because, Portuguese is spoken in nine countries on four continents, mainly in Portugal and Brazil, but also in Africa, specifically in Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor. ]]> 2023-08-11 01:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659850555 LINKS gonzalezesg2662 https://padlet.com/gonzalezesg2662/89eh4sl3w4yrbr0/wish/2659854668 Posner, Rebecca and Sala, Marius. "Portuguese language". Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Jun. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Portuguese-language. Accessed 10 August 2023.


Portuguese language. (2023, August 9). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language



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