Check out the steps Sacha did to learn the language on his own. The first one? Get out of your house and communicate; pay attention to the way people talk around you. We agree with that! Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Everybody does it! Also, you can take online classes with a Native Speaker to make this learning process faster. Take a 30-minutes Trial and begin speaking with ease!...
Read MorePortuguese is currently the 6th most widely spoken language in the world! There are over 260 million speakers of Portuguese from Europe to Africa, Asia to North and South America – with large Lusophone communities in the U.S., including Massachusetts (one of the most difficult words for Brazilians to pronounce!), Florida, New Jersey, California, New York, and others. The language is extremely important in the world economy. If you want...
Read MoreSpanish fluency can go a long way towards helping you learn Portuguese. Here’s how! So, you have mastered Spanish and are ready for the next linguistic challenge. Do you learn Chinese, Arabic, or Pashtun? Language acquisition (LA) is like any other skill, the more you practice, the better you get. Before committing to a thousand hours of Chinese classes, try honing your skills with a smaller step towards Portuguese....
Read MorePortuguese and English: One happy language family People interested in language learning are always asking me: “Is Portuguese a hard language to learn?” My answer remains the same: “Well, it depends.” That’s because there are 7,102 distinct living languages estimated to exist in the world (Ethnologue, 2015). Both English and Portuguese belong to the Indo-European family, which contains approximately 445 other languages, including French, Russian, Dutch, Greek and Icelandic. In fact, native...
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