Pronouncing Consonants in Brazilian Portuguese, Part 1

Brazilian Portuguese does not have a "phonetic" alphabet and can be difficult to pronounce, but Professor Jason is here to teach you how to predict sounds based on spellings

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[KimCyunHi]

Another great video, Jason. I'd like to add just a couple of notes. The umlaut (we call it "trema" in Portuguese) has been suppressed, so now you spell cinquenta and not cinqüenta, although "aguentar" is an exception to the rule, and never had a trema.

Regarding the unstressed "de" phoneme, you do find people in Brazil who palatalize it, pronouncing for example "depois" as djeepois.

[languagenow]

@KimCyunHi Thanks so much for those clarifications! abraços!

[marianmade]

COngrats! I m argentinian (Spanish speaking) and i teach Portuguese and i was glad to find such a great pronunciation in Portuguese from an English speaking, as your language is so different from the language spoken in Brazil. Thanx for uploading your wonderful videos. Greetings from Buenos Aires

[languagenow]

@marianmade Muito obrigado! Where do you teach Portuguese? I would love to BS AS some day!

[adson11zero]

Olá sou brasileiro! voce esta 100 correto ^^

voce ja vei aqui no brasil alguma vez?

rio de janeiro,sao paulo outros?

Muito bom o video. Fique com deus Bye

[languagenow]

Já sim, conheci SP e o Rio, muito legal teu país! thanks!

[washingtondacosta]

agora que estou estudando inglês que percebo o quanto o português é difícil.

boa sorte pra quem está se aventurando no português.

[ILoveHaji]

thx for the video!

im brasilian and im catching up with my portuguese wth u!

i moved from brasil and now i live in the USA so there's nothing really to do besides speaking portuguese to my mom so my writting is becoming very very bad and im trying to relearn it.

Obrigado!

[paulomoura2]

@languagenow Help me learn english i can teach you portuguease YAYY haha

[TeenChannelLola]

@washingtondacosta É verdade eu não faço curso de inglês, mas na escola a professora fala o tempo todo em inglês até rezar o pai nosso ela reza. Sério ela fala uma frase do pai nosso e espera para repetimos, até decorei, mas de vez em quando esqueço

[troopink4343]

im sorry but i am very confused on the d before e. you said the e is stressed what do you mean?

[rogerpenna]

@scarbo1989

in some areas of those states only. In Porto Alegre, its cidadji (like in the rest of Brazil). In the west and in the Serra, is cidad"ê".

[scarbo1989]

Regarding words such as "cidade", if you go to southern states such as Paraná, Santa Catarina, or Rio Grande do Sul, you'll find that the pronounciation is exactly the same as it would be in the"cadê".

Bem, seus vídeos são ótimos! Passar conhecimento é sempre bom. Parabéns!

[marianmade]

@languagenow I teach Portuguese to private students, some of them in different enterprises here in BA. You re welcome to come to Buenos Aires and also learn Spanish here. You won t find it so hard with your excellent Portuguese, you have to take advantage of that! Best regards and keep on uploading and helping so many people with your tutorials!