Joel
Rui- Joel: Bom dia, Rui! Joel: Good morning, Rui!
- Rui: Olá, Joel, bom dia! Rui: Hi, Joel, good morning!
- J: Como estás hoje? J: How are you today?
- R: Estou bem, obrigado. E tu? R: I'm fine, thank you. And you?
- J: Estou 'amazingly' ótimo. J: I'm amazingly 'ótimo' [great].
- R: OK. Vamos falar em português ou vamos falar em...? R: OK. Are we going to talk in Portuguese or...?
- J: Uh, se calhar em inglês. J: Uh, maybe English.
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Vocabulary
o almoçolunch amanhãtomorrow a bicathe espresso regional term, spout os carrosthe cars CedilhaCedilla, a diacritical mark. o centro comercialshopping centre, mall o cinemamovie theatre comerto eat o encontrodate, meetup o filmemovie, film ligarto call on the phone, connect, turn on MatinéMatinée, French term for an afternoon show a tardeafternoon o telefonetelephone a televisãotelevision
Expressions
Fica combinadoIt's a deal Daqui é o PedroThis is Pedro context of answering the phone Fico à tua esperaI'll be waiting for you RossioA district in Lisbon alguma coisasomething combinadoscheduled, arranged, combined
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Comments
Boa noite ! Rui e Joel
Your comments on my recording were very helpful .
I really rate your language program !
Thank you so very much
Kind regards
Kim
Olá, bom dia.
This is ótimo. Really a nice way of learning pronunciation and the melody of the language.
Thanks a lot. Yes, I really want more of such lessons.
Anne Marte
Thank you Anne, we’re glad you liked it! And thank you so much for sending your recording!
Muito interesante e instrutivo. Parabéns para quem fazerem gravações. Foram muito boa. Eu não tivesse coragem.
Eu teria muito sorte a falar tão bem a ser entendido por gente portugueses. Há quarenta cinco anos, eu aprendei português por a prima vez no Brasil. (Por um ano, fui Professor Visitante de Geologia no U. São Paulo.) Infelizmente tenho esquecido quase todo, antes de eu encontrei PracticePortugues.com o ano passado . Mas, a pronúncia brasileiro de “s”, “o”, e ultima “e” na palavras como “hoje” “grande”, “cidade”, etc. parece ser “hard wired” no meo cérebro.
Muito obrigado por a sua ajuda – Jay
Fantastic podcast, thanks so much fellas!
It’s really great to be exploring pronunciation at such a detailed level, and the section about cadence was really useful.
There’s a quote somewhere that “feedback is the breakfast of champions”. It’s certainly true in this case; you guys pointed out a couple of things I wasn’t even aware I was doing.
Thanks again and best wishes to all the other learners out there!
Love ones like this. Thank youuuuuuuu
Hello,how are you , I want to learn from step by step, how can I download the App .
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Cariocas totally shush their s’s
Great episode. Nice to really focus on the details.
These podcasts where you critique pronunciation are great! And more than any other teaching source online, I think you guys do the best job of explaining the intricacies of European Portuguese pronunciation. For a beginner like me, this is extremely important, because as a trained interpreter and a comparative linguist, my ears pick up on things, but you guys really explain the how’s and why’s.
I like how you explain the pronunciation of “o” when it’s not the penultimate (second to last) stress. Perhaps it’s more particular to Lisbon, where I now live, but I find that the farther away it is from the stressed syllable, the more it tends to be swallowed when speaking at a normal pace. As is the way it is dropped at the end of a word or in plurals ending in “-os”.
I also appreciated your explanation of how the unstressed “e” gets dropped when preceded by a “d”, as in dezasseis, or dezanove. When I first heard these words, it was like I had to learn how to count all over again! And I have often remind myself of this.
Probably the hardest thing for me to get used to is when “a” is open or closed. Just like you mentioned, it took me a while to realize that the “a” in “vamos” is not open. I think it’s because there is a tendency to treat a stressed “a” as an open vowel, and an unstressed “a” more closed. But that’s not the case. It seems that “a” is open in most (or at least many) words beginning in “al”, especially if they’re of Moorish origin, regardless of whether or not they are stressed, like “Alcântara”. But aside from that, I’m not sure if there are any rules which might help. Any suggestions or guidance from you guys would be very welcome.
In the meantime, keep up the great work!
Thanks for that detailed analysis 🙂 Regarding the letter A, we talked about it on our forum some time ago, and you can check my comments over there: A vowel pronunciation question . Maybe not as detailed as you would like (I am no linguist!), but hopefully, it’ll help.
Excellent. Thank you. I have been struggling with the pronunciation of bem for some time, not knowing how to say it correctly and now you have explained it really well
Hi,
Do you have a plan to create more podcast with constructive criticism of pronunciation :)? It is great to hear an analysis about almost every separate sound and humorous comments.
Greetings to Rui&Joel.
Thank you! Yes, Rui and Joel do plan to do more of these and I will pass along your feedback. So glad you’re enjoying this format! In the meantime, if you want more pronunciation practice, we have a unit here that could help: Minimal Pairs
A… Thank you Molly 🙂 I will work with these materials.
This was very useful — and reinforced some pronunciation topics that my private teacher just taught me this week!
I am a French speaker and I can’t hear the guttural R when the woman from Israel speaks. I hear the difference when you pronounce the two different Rs together but I don’t think her R is as guttural as the one you imitate. I guess it’s because you are exaggerating, but it’s interesting because it seems you hear this R as a very guttural one whereas it sounds perfectly soft to me. Your imitation of her guttural R is really harsh but her original pronounciation seems perfectly “normal” to me. I think you are pronouncing a “jota” (Spanish sound) when you imitate her.
Once in Peru I met a man from Israel and I noticed he had a very similar accent to mine. I thought he was French 🙂
Her (Ergita’s) Rs do sound too guttural for Portuguese ears, but not necessarily with a harsh throaty sound (like in the imitation). It’s more that they’re being formed too far back in the mouth, perhaps, which does give them a very French sound (or like the German “ch” sound in certain words) 🙂