How Difficult Is Portuguese to Speak for an American?

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Are you trying to learn Portuguese? Kalie from ExpatsEverywhere works with Mia from Mia Esmeriz Academy to work on her pronunciation of the Portuguese language. Kalie is an American expat who lives in Porto, Portugal and is trying to learn Portuguese. Mia is a Portuguese teacher in Porto, Portugal who teaches expats and foreigners Portuguese. The challenge for today is to get our viewers a discount on Mia's courses. How will Kalie do? Do you struggle with pronunciation too? Follow along with Kalie and Mia as they tackle some tricky words.
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@jdos2 Жыл бұрын

Mia's an excellent teacher and has interesting content on her channel. She obviously enjoys teaching. (BTW: Sorrir - you CAN roll the rr. There are PLENTY of areas that aren't Lisbon or Porto that don't clear their throats to sound the r)

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the message, Jeff! - Josh & Kalie

@MiaEsmerizAcademy Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your nice comment! It’s true what you say: you can definitely roll the r because in some places (like in the north of Portugal), the r is rolled. I did explain this, but it’s just too much to fit in in one video hehe. Thank you once again! ☺️☺️

@vervideosgiros1156 Жыл бұрын

@@ExpatsEverywhere You said "chorar" well! You just used a more brazilian accent, but it was ok! 😊

@hermes6587 Жыл бұрын

Kudos to you Kalie for being brave to doing this video. Thank you for sharing and making me feel better about my slow March to learn Portugese as we await our D7visas.

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

You can do it! Thanks for the support. - Josh & Kalie

@danielsemyck7683 Жыл бұрын

Nice job Kalie! We're moving to Portugal in just over 2 years. This was very helpful! Great teacher!!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad it was helpful! Are you already working with Mia? - Josh & Kalie

@danielsemyck7683 Жыл бұрын

@@ExpatsEverywhere No, not yet.

@MiaEsmerizAcademy Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ☺️

@gypsiemomm Жыл бұрын

Mia is great, I am in her Portuguese Crash Course right now! This is a super helpful video! Except the music in the background makes it difficult to hear the minute differences in the speech, Mia is trying to teach.

@lucchese20 Жыл бұрын

What a fun and informative video!🎉 Had a great time just following this being a poor student of the Portuguese language myself. PT pronunciation is very challenging from my perspective-let alone words that sound almost the same with very different meanings. 🤷 I have to say Kalie kills it! I’m nowhere near her pronunciation proficiency. Some day…maybe. She’s my inspiration. 🙏🏻 I found PT pronunciation of pizza to be very surprising. As an Italian, I’ll always pronounce it as an Italian. 🇮🇹 It’s curious though how ‘pizza’ in Portuguese sounds like (to me anyway) how many pronounce the Italian city ‘Pisa’ (where I went to school BTW-weird coincidence). Actually, locals pronounce Pisa in a slightly different way with a soft ‘s.’ Topic for another day. 🤷‍♀️ Loved this video! ❤

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, Maurice. It's really interesting to read about your Italian experience.

@Anita-rd9xr Жыл бұрын

Great! More of these please! Very helpful !

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Anita! We're so glad it was helpful. - Josh & Kalie

@BrianHutchison Жыл бұрын

Greatly appreciate these language videos where I can hear the language slowed down combined with the words on screen. Thank you!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! We are happy to make them and show our progress. - Josh & Kalie

@Tourabunga Жыл бұрын

Great video! It's great to see you practicing your pronunciation and working on your language skills. Keep up the good work! Practicing is the best way to improve and facing our fears is necessary to succeed. Good luck with your challenge with Mia, Portuguese teacher. You're doing great!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃 Good hearing from y'all. - Josh & Kalie

@MiaEsmerizAcademy Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video! It was really cool to do this together ☺️☺️ Kalie did an amazing job! 😊

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mia. We had a blast. I really enjoyed watching you and Kalie do your thing and getting to have a laugh with you both. - Josh

@jimmiewhite Жыл бұрын

Thank you MIa and Kalie.

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Aww, thanks, Jim! - Josh & Kalie

@terrisokolow7796 Жыл бұрын

Great job, Kalie!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

You're the best! - Josh & Kalie

@JenShea Жыл бұрын

Kalie, that was terrific!

@dianamcnerney168 Жыл бұрын

Lovely video; Mia is awesome!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We agree. - Josh & Kalie

@Cozzera Жыл бұрын

I learned a lot already!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Awesome! That's really great to hear. - Josh & Kalie

@slbstallone Жыл бұрын

For all English speaking that want to learn 100 thousands of words in one second just add AO at the end of every English word ending in ION

@miguelaraujo2116 Жыл бұрын

Latin, english have a lot of latin on it too :)

@Dinom-tt5wz Жыл бұрын

Parabens Kalie !!! Tu muda seu portugues!

@GeraldFigal Жыл бұрын

Thank you did this video, Kalie and Mia! Now I have five years to perfect my pronunciation of pão….

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

😁 Thank you , Gerald 🙏 It sounds like you have time. 🤣 - Kalie

@richlisola1 9 ай бұрын

She did well!

@jimjensen9139 Жыл бұрын

Kalie you are an awesome good sport. Hopefully I can do as well as you.

@YurymBR Жыл бұрын

It's funny because here in Brazil we say "Sorrir" and "Chorar" as she said at first, with a more open vowel sound, like "O" instead of "U".

@tamaramadelin4831 Жыл бұрын

Now Kalie, even I learned from mulher that the h has a y sound so you should've gotten senhora (probably not z good idea to call a lady a carrot, lol)! Now, I'm not sure if that's a pronunciation regular rule since I've made very little effort to learn Portuguese and you are making an effort...Doing a great job i might add!!😉 This was fun!!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

:-) It was a pretty fun one to see side by side. Kalie was certainly rusty. Thanks for watching, Tamara. - Josh & Kalie

@paulan5989 Жыл бұрын

ao with flying n tilde = “oun” as in sound ae with tilde over the ‘a’ example mae = min(d) ei = eh ai = (p)ie ou = oh au = ow(l) nh = gn(occhi)

@Apilif91 Жыл бұрын

You guys should try doing a video with Portuguese with Leo. It would be fun to watch

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

We love, Leo. He's become a friend of ours. He made a quick appearance on our Setúbal video. - Josh & Kalie

@MiaEsmerizAcademy Жыл бұрын

Léo is nice ☺️☺️

@miguelaraujo2116 Жыл бұрын

This is cute... She is doing well

@paulogarciadesousa Жыл бұрын

Replacing the palatal L (lh) by a semivowel (the Y sound in yet, for example) is really not a good approximation. I’m pretty sure Kylie can do it correctly.

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

It's hard to be mean on camera. That's what we blame that on. HAHA - Josh & Kalie

@CodingExpress Жыл бұрын

I'm already making plans to permanently move to Lisbon..thanks for the video

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊 Thanks for watching. - Josh & Kalie

@pedroluis758 Жыл бұрын

@@ExpatsEverywhere muito bem! Well done! Greetings from a Portuguese who lives in California. By the way, you did very well when you mentioned LEIRIA my birthplace. Continue the good work, and never give up.😉👍😃

@marcussharpley5654 Жыл бұрын

Not bad. 👍🏻 Just keep practicing and work in some of the language with your Portugese friends every chance you get.

@veronicadcf Жыл бұрын

👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Thank you. - Josh & Kalie

@sydfin Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this, but like in the English language when you teach someone how to province the worse THE you get them to start by placing the tip of their tongue on the roof of their mouth and then drop to get the proper pronunciation. Correct Portuguese pronunciation instruction can benefit from how to hold you mouth, tongue an where the sound comes from. Think of the word carro and concentrate on the two main mouth positions and how to produce the sound for both parts “Ca” and “rro”. The position of the mouth and the way usou produce the sound is important to attain perfect pronunciation. My 2 cents worth.

@bandcrazyadventure Жыл бұрын

OK now I am scared. Just kidding hope to be able to pick it up quick like Kailie

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

You've got this! - Josh & Kalie

@antoniof9756 Жыл бұрын

Kaylie, NIF has anything to do with the spanish tax agency (1:21)...

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Spanish?!

@lxportugal9343 Жыл бұрын

Oh came on.... "pau" it's just a stick or a cut branch of a tree ... you dirt minds hehehe Here is the "jogo do pau" and it's not a omo corn move :) "Jogo do Pau Documentary Master Russo 1991" (Let's see if youtube don't delete my comment know)

@karensnyder4499 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for identifying the word so I could look up the pronunciation of both so that I could compare the difference between them!

@arturjcrebelo3275 Жыл бұрын

@@karensnyder4499 "Pau", yes is a stick in all contexts. But in some very rare context "pau" is the same of pen|s. But is not a bad word, to offend we use the bad word "car...lho". If a man say "o meu pau", and normally we say to only other male friends or to his girlfriend, yes he's referring to his p€nis and is not a bad word.

@catheriam1945 Жыл бұрын

“pizza” … think to pronounce: “Leaning tower of pepperoni”.

@vervideosgiros1156 Жыл бұрын

Why was the portuguese one laughing when the american said "mini" well? Of course, that is a greek word that sounds exactly the same in both languages!

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

Because Kalie thought that's the word she wasn't saying correct and she "tried harder to pronounce the word" we were all laughing at the same time as we realized her mistake before she did. Mia wasn't the only one laughing on that one and she probably laughed because me and Dominik laughed first. - Josh

@AshleyOliviaDaCosta Жыл бұрын

We are in the middle of moving to Portugal and I still can’t say bread or pizza. Thank god I’m gluten free. 😂

@ExpatsEverywhere Жыл бұрын

That's funny right there! :-) Thanks for sharing. - Josh & Kalie

@nylesgregory2120 Жыл бұрын

K - this needs to be said - learning Portuguese is "ABOVE AVERAGE IN DIFFICULTY." No one here is giving merit to the title on the level of difficulty and that's what cued up my curiosity to begin with. Universally, all comments here are luke-warm in approval. If you are an English-speaking person, Portuguese is above average in difficulty to memorize and properly pronounce. Note-to-Self = hard work ahead. This is not an easy language to navigate and acquire. Anyone who has spent time practicing will tell you All local Portuguese will tell you over and over "Portuguese is a hard language to learn." The word for bottles is a perfect example = Garrafões. You will use parts of your nose and the back of your throat in ways you have neverrrrrrrrr used before. Last, there's an accent above the vowel "O" for the translated word of "Bottles." Well, get used to nearly eight different accents above all vowels. That's just for starters. I still feel like a Butcher and I've been at this for over a year. I would characterize the experience as drinking vinegar compared to everyone else drinking Port or wine as the average or standard of language learning difficulty. It's that hard. Incidentally and FWIW - I already speak Spanish, French and Japanese including my native American. I dare anyone to prove this is a walk in the park or comparable in difficulty, it's not. Best of luck. Due respect to the Professora, I am a Fan and have viewed her video's as well.

@pauvermelho Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind so much on accuracy on pronunciation as long as you can make yourself understood. I heard a podcast where he pronounced: Baifana It sounded kinda nice