Do you go to the post office? Or is it unnecessary now? Do you like to receive unexpected letters, postcards from your travel friends? Do you go to the post office to receive parcels with your online orders? Do you even know where the post office is in your city? Let's learn how to answer these questions in Portuguese. Vocabulary In absolutely every topic you can find its own special vocabulary. Post Service isn't an exception: correios – post office…Read: "Post Service"
Traveling is an important part of our lives. Traveling, we broaden our horizons, we learn how to live differently, to compare different cultures and to get charged with positive emotions. It is always new experiences and variety. Therefore, today we will learn a little grammar and vocabulary in the context of this interesting topic. Verbs In order not only to talk about your journey, but also to conduct a dialogue - to ask questions to your interlocutor, you need to…Read: "Comparisons and preferences in Portuguese"
A person who decides to start learning Portuguese always thinks how long it will take to learn so that he can start speaking, communicate in Portuguese. Month? Year? Everybody wants to achieve results as soon as possible! The answer is to choose the Portuguese language course according to the Communicative Method. In this article, we want to tell you more about it. The basic principle From the first lesson, students begin to speak their first phrases in Portuguese, because…Read: "Communicative Method"
Movement is life. Every day we perform a set of actions that can be called ritual. However, in our life there are special occupations - what we please ourselves with. So it's time to learn how to talk about what we like to do. In Portuguese, of course! The verb "ir" One of the most important verbs in Portuguese is a verb “ir” (to go). With its help, we can describe many actions, set the direction and even compose the…Read: "Where to go and what we like to do in Portuguese"
This problem is faced by absolutely every person who starts doing something new in his life - a decrease in motivation. Some people go through this stage and move on. Others, unfortunately, quit their studies and eventually lose the knowledge that they managed to gain before the "crisis". We want our students not to stop in the middle of learning Portuguese. Therefore, we studied the issue of motivation and want to tell you about the results. Be prepared for this…Read: "How to not Quit Learning Portuguese"
Portugal can be called one of the most suitable countries for all kind of sports. Do you want to argue? Then this article is for you. Climate and relief Portugal has 250-300 sunny days a year. Accordingly, bad weather rarely happens, that is, you can do sports on the street all year round. The proximity of the ocean expands the list of sports activities almost indefinitely. Badminton, beach volleyball, sports exercise in any park or on the beach, we do…Read: "Sport in Portugal"
In this brief article we will learn the structures we need to give more details about our job. Many things we already know, but it will be new details which can make the difference. Prepositions In the previous lesson [artigo 12], you learned that sometimes you must join the preposition “de” and “em” with articles and a few words like: isto, isso e aquilo. Now we will talk about join those prepositions with the indefinite articles “um” and “uma”. Please,…Read: "Talk about work in Portuguese"
We've talked about common mistakes that students do but… how about natives speakers? Yes, unfortunately they can make mistakes as well and some of them can even shock students! Introduction If you use to communicate with native speakers, especially to type or if you like to read what they write on social media, you must be aware. Please, don't do the same mistakes! In this article we will expose the most common mistakes of European Portuguese native speakers. We will…Read: "The most common mistakes… of native speakers! (part 1)"
When you return from a new place that you went to visit, the first thing your friends and family ask is: "did you liked there?" or "how it was there?". Let's answer these questions in Portuguese. Verb "to like" First of all, let's meet the verb "gostar" (like). It is a regular verb, ending in -ar, so we should conjugate it like the other ones that we learn in the previous lessons ("chamar-se", "falar", "morar", etc.) eu gosto Tu gostas…Read: "Describe places and talk about what you like in Portuguese"
Here we will talk about the four most common and useful verbal tenses. We will show why they are so useful and, the most important, in which cases we use them. Presente do indicativo We think you don't need a long explanation for the Present tense. It's important because everyone lives now and it's used for regular actions and current facts: Estudo português. (I study Portuguese) – regular action Sou professor. (I'm a teacher) – current fact We can also…Read: "The most used verbal tenses in Portuguese"
