Just think about how much people love sharing their knowledge with others.There is no clearer example of this great human quality than YouTube. They are not fronted by a tutor of any kind—rather, what you see on the screen is text.Well, that is it for this installment! In a few words, they can also sound reduced when they are in between two consonants in a non-stressed syllable. Like the “e” in “pet”.

The Portuguese Lab is your one-stop podcast to learn European Portuguese (from Portugal). Today I am not going to write about all the consonants, as that would take us a long time, and most of the others I won’t mention do sound a lot like in English.The following consonants, however, show some differences in the way they are pronounced.
This makes the “o” sound like an “u” or “oo” like in “kung-fu” or in “cool”.This happens in the word “momento” (moment), for example, which we would read like /mu-MEN-tu/. When we have the “o” at the end of the word, in a non-stressed syllable or alone meaning “the” (masculine form of “the”) , we often use the reduced pronunciation. I am sure you will be fine!Please do come back to my website if you are interested in learning more. So, let us take a look at them!Before “i” and “e”, this consonant will have a soft sound, i.e., it will sound like the “s” in “sound”.Before an “a”, an “o” and a “u”, it will show a hard sound or a “k”, like the “c” in “cup”.This letter is also a consonant and every time we use it it is because we want a “c” that precedes an “a”, “o” or “u” to have the soft sound “s”, rather than the hard sound “k”.Like with the letter “c”, the “g” will sound soft or like a “j” before “i” and “e”, i.e., it will sound like the “g” in “giant”.Before an “a”, an “o” and a  “u”, it will show a hard sound or a “g”, like the “g” in “game”.When we want a “g” that precedes an “e” or an “i” to have a hard sound like “g” in “game”, we insert an “u” between the “g” and the following “e” or “i”. Today, the tables have turned, because YOU, (our listeners) are the main voices of this special episode! That´s the case of the “u” sound in “computador” – /com-p-ta-DOR/. We use this to pronounce the “o´s” that are not at the end of the word, but can be in the stressed syllable. We have streets named Madeira Crescent, Azores, Fatima etc…I Love the Portuguese culture, food, and family based values, that they bring to the city.Your blog has pushed me to try and speak the language (it is close to my native tongue of Italian) but even though I understand my Portuguese friends, I have not worked up the courage to respond to them in Portuguese, that is up until now after reading your lesson. I will also have some materials. Think Suffice to say, video can be a powerful tool that can help learners maximize their study in various ways. So, the way you read these vowels will depend on the words and the combination of letters.In fact, the vowels “a”, “e” and “o” vary a lot, since they have four “kinds” of pronunciation – Open pronunciation, closed pronunciation, reduced pronunciation and nasal pronunciation.The open pronunciation is just the way that you would actually spell the letter, like in the examples I gave above. In today´s post I am going to write about Portuguese Pronunciation.Use this complete guide if you have problems with this topic.. To be more specific I will clarify how to pronounce European Portuguese, since many people want to know it and do not find many materials out there about it. Why Should I Learn Portuguese with YouTube? The “u” is then not read and the “g” becomes a hard “g”.Normally this sound is not pronounced, unless it is together with an “l” or an “n”, in which case it will seem to sound a bit like a “y”.This consonant always sounds soft in Portuguese, like the “g” in “giant”.These consonants sound pretty much the same as in English, except when at the end of the word. The closed pronunciation, reduced and nasal ones are very different, though.Like the “a” in “cat” in the British English variation. No questions asked I just thought I would let you know as you seem to be interested in pronunciation.I hope you continue having fun learning Portuguese and I wish you all the best!OLA, BOA TARDE, GREAT JOB IN TOTO. But if you are still having trouble visualizing the learning potential, do not fret. The sound is something similar to the “ou” sound in “mould”. It made me smile that there are streets with Portuguese names. Like what happens with “a”, if the vowel “e” contains the diacritical mark “^”, this will also make it sound nasal. Warm regards,I find your article very interesting. Thank you for lighting a fire with an informative and great piece of education.Thank you so much for your comment That was really nice, it makes me even more motivated to teach my beautiful language!
I am currently developing some audios and videos for European Portuguese so soon you can check them here just come back to my page in some time and you will be able to find them. What a beautiful place the Algarve is. Otherwise, that would be just too much effort for us aha!So, using the female noun “Mariana” that we looked at above, we would have a pronunciation that would look something like /ma-ri-A-n/, where the last “a” would be almost inexistant. This happens when we have the “a” at the end. My goal here is to teach people and if you found this post useful, I feel happy about it!Again, many thanks and please come back to my website, as I will be adding more content soon! This sound happens sometimes in the stressed syllable of a word, like in “cara”, which we pronounce “CA-ra” or if it contains the diacritical mark “´”We use this to pronounce the “a´s” that are not in the end of the word but can be in the stressed syllable or anywhere else in the word.It is the case of the first two “a” on the woman´s name “Mariana”. It is good to feel that Portugal isn’t forgotten around the world.Italian is also a very nice language!


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