Tá Falado: Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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