Better your portuguese pronunciation

Ok so I realized that one of my biggest problems with pronunciation with portuguese was not know how to actually pronunciate each sound, so I tried bettering this while I was in Bahía. Now I say these sounds with a Bahía accent, or rather a Bahian inclination more than an accent. This is actually great for me because I love it, but the "correct" phonemes are not my primary go to, so for all of you who are still wondering how to make each specific sounds heres a little video (vid#1). I'll also add another video that helps a lot too, this is a fater and more complex video on more complex sounds, it examples more sounds and mixtures of vowel fonemes with their respective nasalities and it also does the consonant sounds. Again this is Brazilian portuguese, you'll find that these sounds are more fricative, softer and less vocalized than European portugese, according to Wikipidia, european languages are usually more vocalized than their non-european transformations and the softening of the language is supossed to be because of the influence of from other languages, these being both native american languages and african. Hope it helps you all, i'll add more on accents; specifically bahian - baiano.


Accent = Sotaque
Slang = Gíria (can be street or professional slang)

Enjoy... :)

Need help conjugating? Verbix is the answer :)

I know I have problems with the verb Pôr, and sometimes I have trouble with the Future Subjunctive, or wondering for some reason what the first person singular present tense of ter (tenho) is... so there you are, its really easy to use, and as Im sure you can tell you can also use verbix for spanish, or other languages by going to the initial home page :)

Slang Diccionary

So the other dictionary you're going to find on my quicklinks bar, is the Slang Dictionary or Dicionário Informal.

It basically includes slang, coarse words, misspelled words and even phonetical variations. Not all will be here, but even some obscure ones are. And be warned, as this is more of a User Generated Contect page (UGC) you have to be careful about where you use certain words, I would recommend talking to native portuguese speakers to clear any doubts.

Anyways, enjoy because most of the common slang words that sometimes as a language learner we are afraid to ask about, are in there. :)

Dictionary

So after my long absence, I'm back posting once again. And going back to the reasons why I wanted to start this blog, here you go. The best online portuguese dictionary for you all. :)

So, for all of you looking for a good Portuguese dictionary, I'm leaving you this link.
I know I promised it long time ago, but here it is. Its definitely one of the most trustable and dependent online dicctionaries from my experience. Hope it helps all of you as well.

By the way, the word for dictionary is Dicionário, so there you are, your Dicionário em Português.