Many people try to learn Portuguese online. After all, an online course can be cheaper and more convenient than the alternatives. It also allows them to learn at their own pace. Besides, it’s easy to find a variety of popular courses and programs from well-known language schools with a simple Google search. Yet, some of…
Along with polite greetings like “Olá” or “Tudo bem?”, “Por favor” and “Obrigado/a” are probably some of the first words you learn in Portuguese. You might even be familiar with the answer “De nada.” But what does it mean? And did you know there are different ways to say “You are welcome” in Portuguese? We’ll…
Whether you’re moving to Portugal in 2023 or just visiting the country, learning useful phrases has many advantages. You don’t need to sound like a native Portuguese speaker, but you should be able to maintain short conversations. These are the essential Portuguese phrases for tourists to learn: You might have visited a Portuguese-speaking country or…
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…