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Portuguese Possessive Pronouns and Determiners
Portuguese possessive pronouns and determiners indicate possession. In English, these are words like my, your, his, her, our, their (possessive determiners) and mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs (possessive pronouns). Both possessive pronouns and determiners look exactly the same in Portuguese. However, possessive determiners precede…
25 Portuguese Tongue Twisters to Improve Your Pronunciation Skills (audio included)
Portuguese tongue twisters are a great way to work on your tongue’s muscle memory and improve your pronunciation skills. Put it another way, tongue twisters help you overcome those thorny sounds and sound transitions you might be struggling…
Portuguese Prepositions “Para” vs. “A”: Know When to Use Either
Language learners often struggle to discern between the prepositions a and para, especially when both are used as prepositions of movement. That’s hardly surprising. When in English we use to, we can either use a or para to…
Portuguese Regular Verbs in the Present Tense
It is true that Portuguese verbs are more cumbersome to learn than, say, English. Being a Romance language, Portuguese is not short of verb forms to keep track of. Fortunately, there are plenty of regular verbs as well,…
Portuguese Conjunctions and Linking Words
Without conjunctions, we would sound rather clumsy and inarticulate: I like apples. I like pears. I don’t like bananas. No one speaks like that. In avoiding the choppiness of several short sentences, conjunctions (also known as linking words)…
50+ English-Portuguese False Friends to Keep an Eye Out For
There are many English-Portuguese false friends (or false cognates if you will). Looking quite similar, these are words that people often assume to have the same meaning. Except that they don’t! See, there are thousands of English and…
How to Get Better at Portuguese – 38 Quick Tips to Improve your Portuguese
Do you wonder what is the best and fastest way to get good at Portuguese? Well, there’re a number of things you can do to achieve that. Today, I am giving away 38 quick tips to improve your…
Portuguese Demonstrative Pronouns and Determiners
Demonstratives are those words that help with pointing out a person or object as well as their location in relation to both speaker and hearer. Portuguese demonstratives work along the same lines as the English, that is, they…
Best Podcast Shows for Portuguese Language Learners – Beginner through Advanced Levels
The more input in Portuguese you get, the faster and further you’ll develop your language skills. That’s a fact. In what follows, I will list 16 podcast shows you can use to work on your listening comprehension and…