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Tá Falado: Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish

Tá Falado: Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish

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Lesson 14: Pronunciation of 'r' sounds, Good Tippers

Lesson 14: Pronunciation of 'r' sounds, Good Tippers

North Americans don't always have the greatest image abroad. However, at least we are known as good tippers. Michelle ... Read more

8 Feb 2007

13mins

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Grammar Lesson 15: False Cognates, Driver's License

Grammar Lesson 15: False Cognates, Driver's License

No kidding, Orlando was in Mexico City one time and saw a man in Chapultepec Park who was selling helados esquisitos. W... Read more

18 Sep 2007

10mins

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Grammar Lesson 14: Absence of Direct Object Pronouns, Mobile Homes

Grammar Lesson 14: Absence of Direct Object Pronouns, Mobile Homes

OK, so you are driving down the freeway and you see a semi going 70 mph and there is a mobile home being pulled along. ... Read more

13 Sep 2007

10mins

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Grammar Lesson 13: Gender in Portuguese and Spanish, Buying Alcohol

Grammar Lesson 13: Gender in Portuguese and Spanish, Buying Alcohol

To be clear, we are referring to gender agreement. Get ready: although gender is 95% the same between Spanish and Portug... Read more

2 Aug 2007

11mins

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Grammar Lesson 12: Personalized Infinitive, Paying for your Education

Grammar Lesson 12: Personalized Infinitive, Paying for your Education

Not only are Brazilians thought of as being very friendly, now they even want to personalize their infinitive verbs! Va... Read more

23 Jul 2007

13mins

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Grammar Lesson 11: Topic-Comment Patterns, Special Needs Privileges

Grammar Lesson 11: Topic-Comment Patterns, Special Needs Privileges

Just look at that barriga! Clearly the polite thing to do, at least in Brazil, would be to have a special line at banks... Read more

16 Jul 2007

12mins

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Grammar Lesson 10: Word Order of Negative Phrases, Paying for Parties

Grammar Lesson 10: Word Order of Negative Phrases, Paying for Parties

'Não, não sei não.' This is the pattern for Brazilians, to say 'no' three times in the sentence. It's not that Valdo a... Read more

6 Jul 2007

11mins

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Grammar Lesson 9: Possessive Pronouns, How to Dress Like an American

Grammar Lesson 9: Possessive Pronouns, How to Dress Like an American

Who would have ever guessed that Valdo and Michelle think that jeans and flip flops make a strange combination? Looks l... Read more

27 Jun 2007

12mins

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Grammar Lesson 8: Plural of words that end in 'ão', Car Insurance

Grammar Lesson 8: Plural of words that end in 'ão', Car Insurance

So why is the plural of alemão alemães, but he plural of nação is nações? And why would the plural of mão be mãos? You... Read more

20 Jun 2007

13mins

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Grammar Lesson 7: Para with Indirect Pronouns, Ice Water at Restaurants

Grammar Lesson 7: Para with Indirect Pronouns, Ice Water at Restaurants

For all of you who learned how to speak Spanish, we all relive the nightmare experience of learning direct and indirect ... Read more

14 Jun 2007

12mins

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Grammar Lesson 6: The Verb 'Ficar', Studying in Cafés

Grammar Lesson 6: The Verb 'Ficar', Studying in Cafés

In this lesson Orlando dreams about being able to use the verb 'ficar' when he is talking in Spanish. Ah, if they just ... Read more

7 Jun 2007

11mins

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Grammar Lesson 5: Disappearing Reflexive Verbs, Use of Coupons

Grammar Lesson 5: Disappearing Reflexive Verbs, Use of Coupons

Here's a trick question for Spanish speakers: Would it be better in Portuguese to say the equivalent of 'Siéntate' or 'S... Read more

31 May 2007

9mins

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Grammar Lesson 4: Future Subjunctive, Soda Refills at Restaurants

Grammar Lesson 4: Future Subjunctive, Soda Refills at Restaurants

When you go, you will buy a soda. If you buy a soda, you will get refills. As soon as you get refills, you will sit down... Read more

25 May 2007

13mins

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Grammar Lesson 3: Plurals with 'l', Gas Stations

Grammar Lesson 3: Plurals with 'l', Gas Stations

The plural of Brazil, if there were two of them, would be 'Brasis.' Now that would be a strange word! Spanish speakers... Read more

21 May 2007

13mins

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Grammar Lesson 2: Contractions, Getting Change From A Machine

Grammar Lesson 2: Contractions, Getting Change From A Machine

Can you believe how many contractions Portuguese has? : nesse, num, do, naquele, aos, pelo, etc. The list goes on and o... Read more

12 May 2007

12mins

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Grammar Lesson 1: Gostar vs. Gustar, Sitting on the Grass

Grammar Lesson 1: Gostar vs. Gustar, Sitting on the Grass

We've made a switch. Welcome back to all who have previously listened to Tá Falado. Up to this point, we've always done ... Read more

8 May 2007

10mins

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Supplementary Lesson 2: Portuguese Consonant Sounds

Supplementary Lesson 2: Portuguese Consonant Sounds

Unlike the regular podcast lessons, we've included some other supplementary lessons. Think of these as a sort of Append... Read more

5 Apr 2007

5mins

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Lesson 24: Intonation

Lesson 24: Intonation

Today's lesson is totally different. Instead of listening to a dialog and comparing the sounds to Spanish, our team disc... Read more

28 Mar 2007

15mins

Ranked #19

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Lesson 23: Cool Little Words, Nicknames

Lesson 23: Cool Little Words, Nicknames

Let's see if we have this right? Michelle's family gave her the nickname 'witch' because of how moody she became when u... Read more

23 Mar 2007

9mins

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Lesson 22: Epenthetic Vowels (wow, fancy word!), Fast Food

Lesson 22: Epenthetic Vowels (wow, fancy word!), Fast Food

Epenthe ... what? Epenthetic vowels. We know, it sounds like a tropical disease, but it's really the linguistic feature... Read more

18 Mar 2007

11mins

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