Your YouTube addiction may have cost you a lot.
Hours of wasted time? Check.
Accidentally ending conversations with “don’t forget to subscribe”? Check.
The public embarrassment of your sad attempts at capoeira going viral? Check and check.
But finally, your …
Wait—what did he just say?
I didn’t catch that at all.
Is she even speaking Portuguese?
If you’ve tried to watch content in Portuguese, these phrases may have escaped your lips a few times. That’s because understanding spoken Portuguese can …
Life is full of unexpected challenges.
A canceled flight can derail your vacation.
A huge pothole can make your drive a nightmare (and ruin your suspension).
A broken bone can destroy your budding professional Quidditch career, in a way …
Living in Brazil taught me one very important language lesson: Portuguese listening practice is as important as any grammar book.
I remember thumbing through the Portuguese dictionary and not always being able to find the word I’d just heard.
That’s …
You’ve gotten the ball rolling on learning Portuguese.
But without a little extra nudge, the notorious intermediate-learner hump could make your learning come to a grinding halt.
When you decided you wanted to learn Portuguese, nobody told you that …
“Moça, você pode me ajudar?” (Young woman, can you help me?)
I turned to my friend in disbelief.
Did she just address an elderly woman as “girl”?
More alarmingly, did she just use the informal form of the pronoun for …
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room.
There’s a Portuguese grammar aspect that learners dread studying.
They avoid it whenever they can, either constructing sentences that circumvent its use or just ignoring it altogether.
It’s the subjunctive mood, and …
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