Discover the different ways Brazilians express “about” in Portuguese, from “regarding” to “approximately.” Getting a grasp on these expressions is a matter of learning them in-context and with good examples. 🇧🇷
Read more...No amount of “hacking” and optimizing the process of learning Portuguese will get you to fluency without first constructing a foundation. And that foundation has to be made of the most-used words and phrases. This base of vocabulary is the most important ingredient in the recipe for language acquisition. Once this solid base has been acquired, all pathways to learning the language are open.
Read more...Great alt-travel blog, The Locales brilliantly leverages local guides and country experts to bring a fresh perspective to many travel destinations. Founder, Weston Moody has posted audio travle-guides and travel advice about subjects such as budget travel, kayaking in Angola, and visting remote areas of the Nepalese Himalayas. The Locales goal is to empower people…
Read more...What is fluency? What does it take to be fluent in Portuguese? When exactly will that happen? Boa pergunta. When I first came here I was obsessed with asking every single foreigner I came across in Brazil: So, how long it did it take you to get fluent in Portuguese? Looking back, so many of…
Read more...I hear from so many people that are either (a) unable to wean themselves from using subtitles, or (b) not taking advantage of the power of subtitles. There is actually a specific process for Learning Portuguese with subtitles, and it’s not that obvious. Using movies, tv shows and YouTube to teach you the language is…
Read more...Stephen Krashen presented his Theory of Second Language Acquisition back in the 1980′s. His work has been very influential and stood the test of time. It’s also heavily influenced our approach, the Semantica Method. Dr. Krashen, in his very popular little book Foreign Language Education the Easy Way says: “We acquire language in only one…
Read more...Are you planning on spending some time in Brazil? How’s your Portuguese? Brazil has a lot to offer travelers and foreigners who relocate here, but in order to take advantage of these opportunities, you need to speak Portuguese. While Brazilians do their best to speak some English, it’s really difficult to spend more than a…
Read more...The students that are on the road to speaking Portuguese fluently do several key things differently. I see these over and over again. They are so striking that I’m going to call them, The 3 habits of successful learners. These people are among the few that actually get to the ultimate goal: fluency. They ask…
Read more...When it comes to learning Portuguese, you need to do it all. You can’t just study vocab or practice sing-a-longs. Here’s what we recommend: Use flashcards to memorize core vocabulary. Watch video dialogs that are interesting and tell a story. Analyze what happened and what was said in the dialog. Practice pronouncing the most difficult…
Read more...Just as Brazilians love to talk and be social, they are equally enthusiastic about facebook, twitter, skype and all the rest. *just a year or two ago everyone had an Orkut account — now replaced almost completely by facebook. Some of our readers have been asking us to talk about the current vocabulary of média social….
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