Portuguese is an
important language, there are about 22 Mill. Native spekers! It’s spoken in
Portugal, of course, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, and other countries, which
were tied to Portugal in colonial times. I won’t come to dialects as we are on
the very basic level. You might have problems with the pronunciation as some
vowels are omitted, some are nasalized, there are diphthongs, and there are
end-S, which are pronounced as a sh. Get a feeling for this by listening to
fado, samba, or spoken Portuguese.
Thanks – obrigado (m), obrigada
(f) – yes, there are differences, if you’re male you say obrigado
Yes - sim
No - não
Do you speak English? - você
fala Inglês?
Please – por favor
Excuse me – desculpe-me
You’re welcome – de nada
Good morning – bom dia
Good afternoon - boa tarde
Good evening/night – boa
noite
Hello – olá
Goodbye – adeus or tchau
How are you? - como vai?
I would like to buy ... - eu
gostaria de comprar ...
How much is it? – quanto
custa isto?
Please write it down - por
favor anotá-la
I don’t understand – eu
não entendo
Where is – onde é
Where are the toilets? – onde
é o banheiro? Or: Onde é o quarto de banho?
I'm lost - estou perdido
What is your name? – como
você se chama?
My name is LMK – meu nome
é LMK
Left – esquerda
Right – direita
Please call a doctor
quickly - por favor, chame um médico rapidamente
Please blame any mistakes on
me.
And perhaps you might want
to look at this page by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/portuguese/talk/
Links:
The Very Basic Guide to Italian http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2015/05/the-very-basic-guide-to-italian.html
The Very Basic Guide to
Afrikaans http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2015/04/the-very-basic-guide-to-afrikaans.html
The Very Basic Guide to
Turkmenian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-very-basic-guide-to-languages-of.html
The Very Basic Guide to French http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/05/the-very-basic-guide-to-french.html
The Very Basic Guide to Russian http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2012/10/the-very-basic-guide-to-russian.html
The Very Basic Guide to Japanese http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2013/03/the-very-basic-guide-to-japanese.html
The Very Basic Guide to Mandarin
Chinese http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2013/04/the-very-basic-guide-to-mandarin-chinese.html
The Very Basic Guide to Spanish http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2013/05/the-very-basic-guide-to-spanish.html
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