Guest post by Raquel Prado.
There are many people who want to learn a new language to improve their life but many of them don’t achieve this goal. I have many friends who want to learn English, but they never have the compromise to reserve time for that matter.
It’s good to keep in mind that time [...]

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The Portuguese alphabet consists of 23 letters (18 consonants and 5 vowels).
The letters K, W and Y do not belong to the Portuguese alphabet, but they can be used in names (Wagner/Wilson/Yara/Amaury) or with international terms (kg/km/watt, etc.).
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Remark: It is important to know how to pronounce the alphabet as [...]

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This week you’re going to learn how to start a conversation in Portuguese. My intention is to make the lesson as easy as possible. I put the phonetics for everything word in Portuguese I use in the lesson, so everyone is going to be able to read and speak as well. Soon I’ll post [...]

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This is a type of psycholinguistic test that poses some difficulty because the portion of the brain that handles language has the conflicting tasks of verbalizing the color of the written words while ignoring the meaning of words representing colors.
In this test DO NOT READ the words, say aloud the COLOR of each word.

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Learn another language is the dream of many people, but only a few of them achieve it. Today I will show the most used words in Portuguese from Brazil. For those who don’t know Brazil and Portugal speak Portuguese but with some differences specially in the accent.
1. I is the most used word in [...]

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