Brushing up my Brazilian-Portuguese (part 1). You will be able to form a small sentence after reading this post.

exyle (79)in #brazil • 9 years ago (edited)

I taught myself Brazilian-Portuguese in a year and that allowed me to speak to my girlfriend’s family in Brazil. They don’t speak English. It was a wonderful experience. Now I’m going on a trip to Porto, Portugal and in preparation for the trip I wanted to brush up my Portuguese knowledge. I thought it might be fun to share the basics.

Me with Bianca's family in Brasil

I find Brazilian Portuguese to be a very logical language to learn. Of course like any other language they have a few (nasty) exceptions, but for the most part if you learn a few simple rules you will be able to have a basic conversation really fast. For this beginner lesson I will be using only regular rules.

By the end of this lesson you will be able to say in Brazilian-Portuguese (among allot of other things):

'I like Steemit!'

Pronouns:

Pronouns
I	Eu
You	Você
He	Ele
She	Ela
We	Nós
They	Vocês
Them	Eles/Elas

All verbs in Portuguese end with -ER -IR -AR. Many are regular:

10 Regular Verbs
want	querer
drink	beber
stay	ficar
leave	chegar
speak	falar
like	gostar
eat	comer
feel	sentir
open	abrir
find	achar

Conjugated verbs in present tense:

For this lesson, we are going to stick with present tense only. The great thing about Brazilian Portuguese is that you only need to remember 4 verb conjugations. This is much easier to remember than most languages! Here they are:

Eu
Você/Ele/Ela/
Nós
Vocês/Eles/Elas

Below is one example each for conjugating regular verbs ending with -ER –IR -AR. If you learn these it works the same for any other regular verb in Brazilian-Portuguese.