Which of these habits do you already do? Which will you adopt now? Let me know!

I find reading portuguese news articles out loud to myself really helps with pronunciation.

I have lived in the Azores for 20 years, and I am ashamed to say I still do not speak Portuguese well. Now is the time to fix that and I am so pleased I have found you. One thing I have trouble with is how to express condolences/sympathy when someone dies. Can you do a short video on that?

So I say thank you very much my family is Portuguese there from Pothos all my data I never learn growing up my grandmother only spoke Portuguese in our house and my father really never taught us except for come here go to bed open the window close the door so I wanna be able to carry on conversations I’ve tried other programs before and I didn’t get to where I want to be but I’m getting more and more every day from you and I really appreciate this so thank you so much for all your hard work looking forward to being able to say all of that what I just said in Portuguese .. so muint obrigad y Passar bom dia

I love the presentation, suggesting 6 habits/ tactics to learn Portuguese. I enjoyed watching Top Gun Maverick with Portuguese dubbing and subtitles. I also watch The Chosen with Portuguese subtitles. There's a great app called Radio Garden that offers radio stations all over the Earth, so I listen to Lisboa stations at times. Muito obrigado. 33 days and counting to Faro, Lagos, Lisboa, Sintra, Porto/Braga & Nazare'. Your videos have been the best.

My #1 learning technique is to write a few new words on my hand every day; so I'm bound to read them over & over again throughout the day. I also take a minute to make a sentence with each one of them.

Muito obrigado Liz!

Excellent! Just added those three KZfaq channels. Thanks.

obrigada Liz. pela muito boas ideas.

Obrigado

Great Liz! Thanks for being patient with us, your followers in learning and practicing Portuguese! Muito obrigado pelo tempo e dicas que trasmites...que gira! 🌻Muito úteis, sobretudo em Português europeu! 🎉💯/💯 Parabéns!

Whenever I find myself watching your videos(teaching Portuguese of course), I kinda like it because there is so much liveliness and its easy to understand.

Loving the videos Liz, keep up the good work!

I'm Brazilian and live somewhere in Algarve, I love the British accent 🇧🇷🇬🇧😍👍🏽

I love your videos! My family is from the Açores but I was born and raised in the US and I’ve lost so much of my Portuguese over the years. I’ve been slowly re-learning and practicing, but I come across so many more Brazilians to speak with on a regular basis. It’s so nice to to learn a learn a little bit more about European Portuguese vocabulary and grammar!

I love your videos...

Great channel. I studied in Coimbra (antropologia) for seven months 20 years ago and spoke pretty well by the end but have let it slip over the years sadly so trying to get back into it.

you are awesome. thank you very much

This was such an amazing video. I was actually wondering how to get confident with any language. And bam. I find this video. It's been so helpful! I am definitely going to be doing more reading and listening. I love these two. And of course chatting online with some of my friends! Thanks again Liz!

Hi, Liz. I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and saw you first on Portuguese with Leo channel. These are very good tips, and I think they apply to anyone learning any language. If you're not an expat, you can exercise these tips while traveling abroad.

Great Scott - Black and White intro! So - 1 reading - current events , children's books etc 2 & 3 oooh tough ones: language learning partner? 2 speaking - 3 asking questions - 4 writing - language learning partner WhatsApp POP - piece of paper/letter lol! 5 listening - TV KZfaq etc 6 consolidation note-taking and research As a player I love using Music - Fado, Pt Reggae - easy to sense the meanings I really love listening to and reading translations of poetry - a rare treat -It sparks another part of my brain to visualise the images poets create - :) Beijos Liz!

May I add a few tips. Portuguese is about the 11th or so languages I've learnt to some degree, leaving out various other ones I've dabbled in very slightly. 1. Watch or listen to the Sunday services. Antenna 1 radio 8am. 10.30am on RTP TV. 2. Be careful about speaking too quickly (yes, quickly) and also 3. Cutting off many syllables. Native speakers often ask you to repeat or fail to understand. This is because "slow processing" as well as types of "dyslexia" and other specific learning and processing differences are extremely common in all populations, including those which make it difficult or impossible for some people to distinguish between some sounds. As well as difficulties in eliminating multiple and/or background noises. Altogether 40+% of the population! 5. When saying numbers, say two numbers, pause, then the next two, pause, etc. This excellent Portuguese habit is why it is far easier for people like me and many others with learning differences to hear and say numbers in Portuguese than in other languages. Many people can only absorb two numbers at a time!

Boas dicas! Something I have been doing is going over and reviewing all the information in your Portuguese Pros course! I try to listen and make sure I understand, without the transcript, the dialogues!

I am so enthusiastic about learning Porto', though when you have add' it can be a bit challenging. Hardest thing for me is memorizing verb conjugation.

Yes! I watch Novelas as well and a great tip for beginners is checking out the flyers from Portuguese stores. Ie Pingo Doce! Very helpful for learning common phrases.

Hi Liz, love your enthusiasm. Me and my family moved from England 3 weeks ago to Monchique and will avidly follow your tips and pointers. It is like being a fish out of the water at the moment! Obrigado.

Actually I’m one of the beginner in learning Português but before it that I’ld like to be native speaker in English! Even you talk very very fast I can understand all things 100%.(even my English is not advanced, imagine it) I supposed that you made your videos acceleratingly😅 muito obrigado e até já! 🤩

Need to start reading the news in portuguese 😬

Liz thanks for the tip about rtp, i've installed the app already!!! brigadão!

Iam new in portugal and learning basics portuguese , thanks for the video and tips

Will you consider making videos in Portuguese for more advanced learners like myself ? I would love to hear more European Portuguese and most of the Portuguese youtubers speak English instead

Excellent tips. I need to revisit the listening and reading part as I've become a little irregular with those. I add another method for remembering and that's my trusted yellow post it notes. Slap them onto the objects in a given room and you'll see the name flash across your eyes everytime you enter or leave that room. Not only does it help with visual memory of the object itself while remembering the word but repeated sighting of it helps reinforce and hammer home the Portuguese word. Now I no longer get confused between "forno" and "fogão" because I know exactly what they look like 😊

I'm Brazilian. How did a I get here? By the way, good suggestions. I'm learning English and also trying put this things into practice.

Christmas eve i spoke to neighbours last. But nearest neighbour is quarter mile down the hill. This is ace ways to help memory. como se diz. Theyll hear that many times lol

euronews em português é ótimo também, os artigos contém palavras chave, as frases são escritas de uma forma simples o que faz com que ouvir as notícias seja mais fácil :)

My Portuguese is basic. I know how to ask for things but l haven't got enough vocab to hold a conversation. When l visit l watch the news and some words l know but check the other words. I'm going to follow your videos, as l love Portugal. I'm Scottish but live in England. I felt the Portuguese in away is similar pronunciation to some words in Scotland, as like there Portuguese, Scottish language roll their 'r'. I have been going to Portugal since 2009. I'm hoping to retire there. I adore Portugal. I try to speak Portuguese as much as possible.

Hi, your English and Portuguese are excellent, I’m wondering if you are able to make more videos in Portuguese in the other site you gave me. Your videos are mostly in English, just few words or expressions in Portuguese. Thank you

Do you have a list of recommended beginner and then intermediate (may as well cover all bases) short story books for adults, rather than kids? Ta.

Hi Liz! How can I have a language learning partner?

Did you make this for me Liz?

My boyfriend and his family are Portuguese. Most of his family speaks very little English. I'd really like to learn their language, so I can communicate with them and understand them, but I have no idea where to start. It is very frustrating that most apps only offer Brazilian Portuguese.

I spend about an hour on Mango Languages every day. Then I listen to KZfaq videos with people speaking Portuguese. I try to listen to lots of different speakers. I find some I can understand almost completely e.g. Jackie from the KZfaq channel, "Ask Jackie." And some I don't understand at all, e.g Taty Ferreira from the KZfaq channel, "Acidez Femina." "Olga do Brasil" is a Russian woman who speaks Porguese at a frightening pace. And I use Forvo.com to compare European and Brazilian pronunciations. We have a news programme on television in Toronto in Portuguese so I listen to that. I try to write KZfaq comments in Portuguese. I love it when someone writes back in Portuguese.

I‘m at a really beginner level, so I guess News reading would be frustrating. But I try to watch one video a day, currently still mixing Portuguese and English (like your learning videos 😃). Both foreign languages for me, but English feels much more home. And I try to use Drops once a day and write down new words and try to speak them, even it feels a bit silly in front of the computer. 😉 Maybe I should try more to watch videos just in Portuguese to loose the „fear“ of not understanding something at all.

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Estou ver RTP notícia

Which places in Portugal don’t speak English well?

I read a news article everyday and post the audio on hello talk for feedback. I also text everyday with language partners. However Finding a language partner is difficult. I use hello talk but the Portuguese people lack confidence in trying to speak they won’t take the plunge 🥴

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With these videos im learning english and portuguese at the same time LMAO

Hello ma'am can I tolk with u

Liz, seus vídeos são ótimos, mas você anda falando muito inglês neles. Saudades de quando você falava mais português europeu e a gente podia escutar. Beijos

Can you please do something on "language interference" and "interlanguage" or "interlingua" as they call it in Coimbra University classes of Portuguese for Foreigners. For some of us Portuguese is far from our first foreign language (Italian, French, Greek, some Spanish and smattering of other languages (such as German and Russian). Every Professor here has identified an Italian interlingua problem in my case. You can DM me on twitter: @adrianwhyatt. I insist on speaking to them in Portuguese even when they speak in English.

Eu achava que você era portuguesa (parece com uma!) e tinha um inglês britânico perfeito. Me enganou direitinho. rs

Cadê os Br aqui ?

Jeez! You definitely sound (with all due respect) sexyer (I know, I know, i made that up) speaking portuguese!

Why insist on using the ex-pat moniker? It's the only thing about your videos that's off-putting to me. Thanks for the videos.