Useful videos to help you speak European Portuguese like a Native
For the inaugural video of the new “Basics of European Portuguese” Series, we tackle the very basic sounds, or phonemes, of European Portuguese. We plan to make a follow-up video that will expand on this soon. Obrigada, Carla Ready to become fluent in European Portuguese? For the last decade, we’ve been working on putting together…
Well, we’re back with a new series of European Portuguese lessons. We’ve been working on these new episodes for a few months now and it has taken us longer than anticipated, but we’re very happy with the result so far and we hope you will be too. There are a few changes you will notice…
Hey folks, we shot this European Portuguese Vocabulary lesson at the Lisbon Zoo a few weeks ago. How many animal names can you correctly pronounce?While we were at it, we also asked natives standing by to give us terms associated with specific animals. The theory goes, that the more “items” your brain has associated with…
Here’s a quick video of me buying cakes at the beach. It’s full of simple European Portuguese dialog you can use on day to day conversation. While at Costa da Caparica, a few weeks ago, recording some new (confidential-for-now) stuff for Portuguese With Carla, we spotted a woman selling Bolas de Berlim, custard-filled do-noughts, and…
Well, it’s snail season in Portugal, so we thought it might be a good idea to shoot a quick video of my mother-in-law ordering some in a shop and turning it into a European Portuguese lesson. 🙂 Apart from the snail bit, this is basically an unscripted European Portuguese conversation that would typically happen in…
One of the hardest things for English speakers who are learning European Portuguese is to get their heads around the formal vs informal way of speaking in the new tongue. Truth is, pretty much every language has markers, of one sort or another, that let its users speak or indeed write in a more polite, less casual manner. The…