Buying Cakes at the Beach in European Portuguese
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Buying Cakes at the Beach in European Portuguese

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…

Formal vs Informal European Portuguese
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Formal vs Informal European Portuguese

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 usersĀ speakĀ or indeed writeĀ inĀ a more polite, less casual manner. The…