Video Lessons

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…