Speaking - your first conversation - o Carlos

This short text for beginners summarizes a few must-know structures and vocabulary that you’ll need in your first conversations in Portuguese.

Watch the video of the story and practice these structures with the Q&A section after the story. This allows you to grow the different skills of the language; improve your listening and reading comprehensions and activate the vocabulary and grammar structures by speaking.

Speaking - your first conversation - a Maria

This short text for beginners summarizes a few must-know structures and vocabulary that you’ll need in your first conversations in Portuguese.

Watch the video of the story and practice these structures with the Q&A section after the story. This allows you to grow the different skills of the language; improve your listening and reading comprehensions and activate the vocabulary and grammar structures by speaking.

Phrases - how to make requests in Portuguese

In this episode, you’ll learn how to make requests.

For example, asking where the train station is, how much the apples cost, and who is the manager. I’m giving you more complex sentence structures here, but you can use them on different occasions and are very polite. Also, they force you to practice different grammar aspects.

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Phrases - Should I answer a question with "sim"?

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In this episode, I want to talk a little about how to answer yes and no questions (closed questions).

Now you’re thinking, well, that doesn’t sound too complicated. Just answer sim or não. The truth is that we don’t answer with yes that often. This doesn’t mean we always answer with não, this means there’s a different structure you can use if you want to answer in the affirmative.

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Vocabulary - 28 must-know adjectives in Portuguese - part 2

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In this episode, you’ll learn the 28 must-know adjectives in Portuguese.

This is part 1 and it includes 14 adjectives grouped in opposites, for example, big-small, good-bad.

I include four examples for each adjective: singular masculine, singular feminine, plural feminine, plural masculine.

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Vocabulary - 28 must-know adjectives in Portuguese - part 1

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In this episode, you’ll learn the 28 must-know adjectives in Portuguese.

This is part 1 and it includes 14 adjectives grouped in opposites, for example, big-small, good-bad.

I include four examples for each adjective: singular masculine, singular feminine, plural feminine, plural masculine.

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Pronunciation - how to pronounce Portuguese cities

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You’ll learn the pronunciation of cities, towns, and islands in Portugal.

This is a long list, in alphabetical order, but naturally doesn’t include everything. If you ever wondered how to correctly pronounce the city or town where you live in, that you visited last time you were in Portugal or that you’re going to visit again soon, then lookout for it.

Even if you’re not interested in any of these locations, it’s good pronunciation practice!

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Mini-story - ao + infinitive in the past

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In this mini-story you learn how to use ao (as) in Portuguese, with the same meaning of quando/enquanto (when, while). The text is in the past. First, I read the text slowly and then at normal speed.

In this story, a pilot arrived on a new planet and came face to face with an alien.