>learning portugues
none of this shit is pronounced how it is spelled
Learning portugues
Adrian Perry
Gabriel Mitchell
Just like English, what's the problem?
Just learn the fucking retarded and arbitrary pronunciation rules.
Jeremiah Ward
Jose Peterson
>telefone = tulfon
Alexander Watson
>Heeo gee janeria
Wyatt Gomez
janeiro*
Michael Nguyen
That because people usually speak fast and "eat" the letters, you can just pronounce it normally, as it's seen in written form and everyone will understand you fine
Luis Watson
Fair enough.
Is Porto as heavenly as it looks btw? I will be there for a month
Luke Hughes
Probably full of meme tourists but it's cool
Lucas Bell
Same with english. Ghoti = fish and so on.
Liam Hall
so exactly like in english. except in english you have weird pronunciation rules on top of that. not sure what the OP is complaining about
James Hughes
Why would anyone learn portuguese? Some tranny tricked you?
Chase Cruz
I will be visiting for 2 months
Jackson Myers
Having the same problem. I've got a hue friend and Portugal is a byufel country so it's my """plan""" to move to the PR countryside while working from home.
I get the grammar, but the pronunciation can be tricky as shit. Like "leite", le-i-ché instead of what I would pronounce it as lie-te (As in the English word "lie" and the te as "tuh"). Same with Eu and Sou, actually saying the letters instead of it being digraph.
Fuck Duolingo's voices at time too. They're terribly unclear.
Can any PR speaker explain the ã to me? It's still not really clear how to say it.
Samuel Green
Because it's a nice language and a great gate for other romance languages
John Nelson
Porto is fine, btw a classic music from there that everybody knows here.
James Rivera
>Everyone saying it's just like English
NO. WRONG. Portuguese spelling might seem odd but it's still completely regular. In English 'gh' changes arbitrarily e.g. 'tough' and 'thigh', there's no way to tell just by seeing it. But in Portuguese that's not the case.
Let's take "gente" as an example. A Spanish speaker will flip out when they hear this word in Portuguese because it's so different (go on Forvo and listen to it in both languages to see what I mean). But it's still completely regular. An 'e' at the end of a word is ALWAYS pronounced like the vowel in 'eat'. A 'g' followed by 'i' or 'e' is always soft, like in 'pleasure'. A 't' followed again by 'i' or 'e' is always pronounced like English 'ch'.
In other words, there are rules to learn, but once you learn these rules you can figure out how any word in Portuguese is pronounced just by reading it, just like in Spanish (and Italian, and French, etc.). The same does not apply to English; there's no rule you can memorize to teach you how to pronounce 'gh'.
In Portuguese the tilde is used to show that a vowel is nasalized. There's a wikipedia article on 'nasal vowels' that might help you out. The basic idea is that you lower the back of your mouth to let air out of your nose to produce the sound. It's not as tricky as it sounds, you'll get it with a bit of practice.
Ethan Hernandez
You speak like africans
Hunter Adams
??? Yes it is. They have rules for that, you just need to learn them
John Anderson
There are africans that speak portuguese so I don't know what's the problem
Liam James
t. Ladayquan Jones
Leo Cooper
Tutorial - youtube.com
>In Portuguese, Ã/ã represents a nasal near-open central vowel, [ɐ̃] (its exact height varies from near-open to mid according to dialect). It appears on its own and as part of the diphthongs ãe [ɐ̃j̃] and ão [ɐ̃w̃].
in en.wikipedia.org
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