A few words of Portuguese, with my memory aids
English - Portuguese
and - e
beach - praia
club - clube (just add an e)
day - dia (like diary)
district - bairro
fish - peixe
football - futebol (change the two football letters o to U with two spikes, add an o, drop the l)
garden - jardim
goodbye - adeus (like the Spanish adios)
hello - olá
museum - museu (easy to remember, just drop the second m)
new - novo (like novelty)
old - velho (V like vintage)
or - ou (both start with letter o)
sea - mar
the - a
time - tempo (like temporary and tempo)
yes - sim (like Spanish si but add m)
Portuguese - English
a - the (confusingly!)
adeus - goodbye
bairro - district
clube - club
dia - day
e - and
futebol - football
jardim - garden
mar - sea (like the French word mer, and the Devonshire place name in the UK, Weston super mare, near Exeter, probably the influence of the Normans)
ou- or (both start with letter o)
novo - new
olá - hello (the same as the Spanish, like hello, but the o vowel is first, like holler hello)peixe - fish
praia - beach
sim - yes
tempo - time
velho - old
Useful Websites
Duolingo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos,_S%C3%A3o_Paulo
For more on football and Sau Paulo, Pele's football club, museum and city, see my previous post.
Angela Lansbury
teacher of languages
Beginning a new language for polyglots and expats
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