4 language learning hacks for your Portuguese
As you certainly know, getting to speak a foreign language fluently takes significant hard work and practice. And it takes time, which requires perseverance and consistency. Nevertheless, there are language learning hacks to help you on your journey. Below are 4 of these hacks. I would love to know what has been helpful to you in […]
7 Books in Portuguese to Make the Most of your Free Time
Reading is a great way to improve your Portuguese language skills. Here are 7 books in Portuguese to make the most of your free time and advance your Portuguese.
A gota d’água: Colloquial Brazilian Portuguese Lesson [Video]
You know I love colloquial expressions ;) They make us sound natural speaking a foreign language. In addition, an idiomatic expression can often get your point across better than any other way of putting things. So here’s another great Brazilian Portuguese colloquial expression: a gota d’água.
How to Say More and More and Less and Less in Portuguese
Here is a very useful structure in Portuguese:
- Cada vez mais = more and more; literally: each time more
- Cada vez menos = less and less; literally: each time less
The examples below will get you ready to use your new Portuguese language structure. I will organize the examples in three sections:
- Cada vez mais
- Cada vez menos
- Special cases
Dar-se bem: To get along well & To do well
I recently posted the pictures below on our Facebook page. Dar-se bem is a common idiomatic expression in Brazilian Portuguese. It has two different translations to English, and for each meaning, a different preposition is used. I am sure that this will be useful to all learners of Portuguese.
Notice that the verb is used with the reflexive pronoun in these expressions.
How to Say Today, Yesterday, and more in Portuguese
In this lesson you will learn 7 expressions of time in Portuguese to enrich your Brazilian Portuguese vocabulary and conversations. You will learn how to say in Portuguese: Today Yesterday Tomorrow The day after tomorrow The day before yesterday Nowadays In the past, in the old days Imagine that you are in Brazil. You are […]
