Brazilian Portuguese in a Nutshell - Part B

Learn how to pronounce Brazilian Portuguese vowels and consonants. Get a feel of Brazilian idioms and the melody of informal speech. Class geared to the english-speaking learner of Brazilian Portuguese.

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Education

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• BRAZILIAN
• PORTUGUESE
• CLASS
• PRONUNCIATION
• IDIOMS

[rogerpenna]

Tu quer ir conosco? (você quer ir com a gente)

your lesson was about paulista portuguese :)

about the contractions, "com a gente" is almost pronounced like "qua gente?", merging the COM with the A...

[sergioanew]

Hi, Roger

Thanks for the observation. You´re raising a very interesting point: since the final /m/ sound in "com" is not pronounced in Portuguese when it comes before another vowel as i "com a", a glide /w/ intervenes and we have "kwa" as a result. The same thing happened when I said "com o Omar" = "kwomar". And yes, this might be a feature of the paulista dialect. Best, Sergio

[daisoke2001]

I am also trying to learn Portuguese. It seems to be difficult for me to pronounce words when there is a O or A before a word. The sounds from native speakers tend to blend together in a way that's difficult for me to hear it. I think i've gotten hung out on trying to pronounce each word instead of allowing it to just flow. also words that end a R seem to roll the r which i also struggle with. Any advice?

[MrAlexdesousa]

Very good!

[TubbyWilliams]

Eu pessoalmente nao gosto de usar "a gente" pois soa muito informal.... usa nos que e mais bonito

[aishawithkay]

Do the "voce"-"se" and "esta"-"ta" transformations also belong to Carioca dialect?

[Felipiin1993]

Very good video.!! I am Brazilian and I believe that Portuguese is not a difficult language. So, try to learn it because it is very useful in our life! Think about it !

[raplost]

LOL.

when u already know the language it looks so easy.

xD

[troylumpkin]

I love it too. I'm learning a lot here. I didn't even know what a dipthong was until five minutes ago! ... let alone a monothong!

Ok, I've mastered this lesson. I should be speaking the lingo by Part D.

[je1ani]

very good i love this.