English, Spanish and Portuguese On Menus In Latin America

Countries with Spanish as an official language. From Wikipedia.

1 Spanish - English Menu Words

I started my search for menu terms by going back to one of my early blog posts which told me this: 

Spanish-English Hotel Menus

adobado - pickled

ajo - garlic

anguila - eel

agua - water

arroz - rice

calamares - squid

caldo - broth / soup

cálida/o - warm

caliente - hot

cerdo - pig

charasko - steak

chuleta - chop

churrasco - steak (churrasco de ternera - beef steak)

combinados - combinations

con - with

croquetas - croquettes

del - of the

empanada - pie

ensalada - salad

entremeses - appetisers

espanola (note sign over the n) - Spanish (style of cooking)

especial - special

filete - fillet / steak

frita - fried

galeras - 

gallego - Galician (in Spanish and Italian you do not have capital letters at the start of a country or country style

hamburguesas - burgers

huevos - eggs

lomo - back

lubina - sea bass

marisco - seafood

menu - menu

merluza - hake

Meso 

meson (accent on the on for emphasis) - house (like the French word maison)

mixta - mixed

o - or

pan - bread

parillada - barbecue

pasteles - pastries / cakes

patatas - potatoes

pechuga - poultry breast

plancha - griddle, iron, plate

plato - plate or dish

platos - plates / dishes

pollo - chicken

postre - dessert

Primer - first / starter

pudin - pudding

quesadilla - tortilla (omelette or wrap) covered in cheese

queso - cheese

rusa - Russian

Segundo - second

spaguetis - spagetthi

tartas - tarts

ternera - veal / beef 

tomate - tomatoes

tortilla - thin omelette containing slided potatoes and onions cooked in olive oil

ternera - veal

variados - varied

vino - wine

y - and

I asked Gemini for some Spanish and Portuguese menu terms and got this

2 Spanish Menu Terms

Cooking Style & Preparation

• A la plancha: Grilled on a flat metal griddle.

• Al ajillo: Cooked with garlic and olive oil.

• Asado / A la parrilla: Grilled or barbecued over open flames.

• Frito / Empanado: Fried / Breaded.

• Al horno: Baked or roasted in an oven.

Popular Dishes & Specialties

• Tapas: Small, shareable savory dishes or appetizers.

• Empanada: Baked or fried pastry dough filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables.

• Ceviche: Raw fish cured in fresh citrus juices, seasoned with chili peppers and onions.

• Tortilla Española: A thick Spanish omelet made with eggs, potatoes, and onions.

• Gazpacho: Cold, blended tomato and vegetable soup.

Meats, Seafood & Extras

• Mariscos / Pescado: Seafood / Fish.

• Jamón: Cured ham (e.g., Jamón Ibérico or Serrano).

• Carne de res / Ternera: Beef / Veal.

• Pollo / Cerdo: Chicken / Pork.

• Salsa / Queso: Sauce / Cheese.

Countries with Portuguese as an official language.

The Portuguese island of Madeira is a popular destination for people from the UK and Europe. You can visit the Madeira wine wineries, which we did, my husband and I and we took members of our walking/hiking holiday to D'Oliveira winery in the centre of the capital city. 

3 Portuguese Menu Terms

Cooking Style & Preparation

• Grelhado: Grilled.

• Assado: Roasted or baked.

• Refogado: Sautéed with an aromatic base (usually garlic, onions, and olive oil).

• Frito / Apressado: Fried.

• Ao molho: Served in a sauce or gravy.

Popular Dishes & Specialties

• Bacalhau: Salt cod—a staple ingredient in Portuguese cuisine prepared in dozens of ways (e.g., Bacalhau à Brás).

• Francesinha: A rich sandwich from Porto made with bread, meats, melted cheese, and a thick beer/tomato sauce.

• Feijoada: A rich stew of black (or red) beans, pork, and beef.

• Pastel de Nata: Classic warm egg custard tart dusted with cinnamon.

• Petiscos: Small shareable plates or finger foods (the Portuguese counterpart to tapas).

Meats, Seafood & Extras

• Frutos do mar / Peixe: Seafood / Fish.

• Camarão / Chouriço: Shrimp / Spiced pork sausage.

• Carne de vaca / Porco: Beef / Pork.

• Frango: Chicken.

• Queijo / Arroz: Cheese / Rice.

I asked Gemini about the similarities and differences regarding Uruguayan food and Argentinian food and got this answer:

3 Summary Spanish and Portuguese Menu terms

You find nearly identical menus at traditional steakhouses (parrillas) in both Montevideo and Buenos Aires,

Uruguay's cuisine stands out with dishes like the 

Chivito, 

Pamplona, and wood-fired grilling methods, whereas 

Argentina features greater regional diversity in dishes like 

empanadas and 

stew (locro).

4 Useful Websites For Translating Spanish and Portuguese Menus & Learning Words

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duolingo.com

Useful Books With Spanish and Portuguese Words

Portuguese and Spanish sections on eating out and menus are in

European Phrase Book Dorling Kingdersley Eyewitness Travel Guides

New Spanish Words - Nuevas palabras en español and Mesa Verde National Park in the USA

 

New Spanish Words - Nuevas palabras en español

This is a map of Spain. But I am learning Spanish on Duolingo which uses the Spanish of the Americas. That's a lot of countries. Most of South America except Brazil which speaks Portuguese, which is similar to Spanish.  

Spanish - English

los platos - the plates (Los is plural, masculine plural, as in the US city Los Angeles, whose name means the angels, male angels.)

lavar - to wash  (You can see the root word, as in the English word lavatory0

lavabo - wash basin

toalla - towel

las naranjas - the oranges (but los naranjos, the orange trees)

la carne - the meat

la compra - the groceries

la fruta - the fruit

papas - potatoes

la sal - the salt

la botella - the bottle (in English double t, in Spanish double l)

necesitas - you need  (add s for second person singular, like Latin Amo, amas, amat meaning I love you love, he, she or it loves)

el refrigerador - refrigerator (the Spanish word has a hard g as in the English word big, not a j sound)

la nevera - fridge

What's the differnce. refrigerador, like refrigerator is more formal. nevera can also apply to cooler.

bolsas - bags (both words have the letters B initial and later the letter a)

la mesa - the table

Mesa Verde - green table, the adjective after the noun in Spanish. Mesa Verde is a National Park in Colorado, USA.

servicios - toilets

English - Spanish

wash basin - lavabo (the same word in four other languages, Italian, French, Turkish, and Serbo-Croatian)

towel - toalla

wash basin - lavabo

bebidas frescas- fresh drinks

Mesa Verde National Park

You have to pay a visitor fee to enter the National park but you can buy a permit which lets you visit several areas all over the USA.

Features of the area include the earliest dwellings, pits on the flat-topped mountins. Later they moved down onto the sides of the cliffs, and onto the flat land below. Visually an interesting features if the keyshape doors. If you ever thought that doorways were all oblong, or arched, or with pointed tops (gothic), here's a new idea to add.

Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA. Picture from Wikipedia.

servicios - toilets in Spain.

Mesa Verde Websites

https://www.visitmesaverde.com/plan/getting-here/

Useful Websites For Learning Spanish

duolingo.com

spanishdictionary.com

translate google

https://www.linguno.com/wordComparison/esp/frigorifico-nevera-refrigerador-heladera/

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Starting Spanish

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 I switched from learning Spanish on Duolingo to learning Italian for a year for a trip to Italy which was cancelled. Now I have just finished learning the Italian from the Duolingo course and I have gone back to Spanish.

This time I am more methodical. A few days ago I wanted to say goodnight to my husband in Italian and could not rmember the Italian for good night. He was astonished and said, "After a year of Italian, you still can't say good night!" 

I wrote down the Italian for good night on a piece of paper and put it by his bed on the bedside talbe (which Americans call a night stand). I wrote it again for myself, to go on my bedside table. 

When I switched to Spanish, I wrote the Italian for good night, and good morning.

Italian - English

ciao - hello/goodbye

buon giorno - good morning (literally good day)

buona notte - good night

Spanish - English

hola (silent h)  - hello/goodbye

buenas noches - good night

buenos dias - good day/morning

I think of Spain, Espana, with  the letter s. Add s for plurals, like Los Angeles, the city, which means the angels. 

Dia is day and dias is days. Day has the letter A second in Spanish.

Now, as soon as I think of good night or good morning in English, either the Italian or Spanish for good night or good day will pop into my head. How do I remember the difference is spelling of the word good for night and day, and which is Spanish and which is Italian.

I thought I'd check out the Portugese. Very close to Spanish. In spelling and pronounciation.

Handy in both Europe, in Portugal, and in South America in Brazil

Portuguese - English

olá - hello

Your next steps

Useful Websites Languages For Travellers

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wikitravel phrasebook Italian 

wikitravel phrasebook Spanish 

wikitravel phrasebook Portuguese

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Three types of wine corks and stoppers

 

I looked at these three 'corks' tken out of bottles at a meeting of the Central London Wine Society. What were they?

Members of the public tend to use the word cork for any kind of bottle stopper. Some people don't know there is any difference. Others know there is a difference but cannot identify real cork.

 The top cork stopper is the kind used for Champagne and sparkling wine. It has a broad top to withstand pressure from the bubbles below.

The middle 'cork', or rather a stopper, is a synthetic. Advantages, cheaper, and can be reused.

Any disadvantages? Not supporting the Portuguese wine industry, jobs and growing of attractive, traditional cork trees.

The lowest cork in my photograph has holes or bubbles. That is how you know it is made from real cork.

Composite cork is made up of fragments of cork, like chipboard. One advantage is that they can be sterilised which reduces the risk of cork taint.

They are also cheaper to make and sell for less so they are easiest to sell.

Diam is a maker of cork closures.

Any disadvantage?  The non traditional stoppers fit tight so they can be harder to get out of the bottle.

Diam-cork.com

Screw caps are convenient. Quick and easy to remove by the consumer. No need of a corkscrew.

Even if every bottle produced this year, or next, had screw caps, cork stoppers would still be around, needing corkscrews. Why? Because, if you have very old bottles in storage, they will have cork closures.

Corks are prestigious, so they are often used for the more expensive wines.

Cold and hot in European languages; Freddo Delicato Nespresso coffee

 Freddo Delicato coffee capsules from Nespresso. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

We received Italian coffee capsules from Nespresso labelled freddo delicato and wondered if they were for cold or hot coffee. 

I used google translate to confirm. From my days as a sub-editor with IPC women's magazines, I know that you should always check, even if you are 99.9 per cent sure. 

UK - cold (adjective and noun, eg cold tap, the cold (noun), the cold weather (adjective)  . Similar word Freezing.

Italian - freddo

French - froid

Portuguese - frio

Spanish - frio

UK - hot - (memory aids: similar words  using b and c - close, calescent, baking hot, balmy; c pronounced like s - sultry, sweating)

Italian - caldo

French - chaux

Spanish - calor (heat,noun)

Spanish - caliente (hot, adjective)

Portuguese - calor

We tried the new flavour of coffee. It was mild, not bitter, pleasant. Not the wake you up strong coffee some would prefer for first thing in the morning, but good for day, or mid-day. I must admit we shared one capsule between two. But we often do that, and the stronger coffees still taste stronger.

Useful Websites

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Nespresso

Reverso

https://context.reverso.net/translation/

https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-portuguese/

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Brazilian/Portuguese words to recognize on signs and in everyday speech - more than 20 useful words

 

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When I was on holiday in Madeira the first word I recognized on a sign was Jardim, like jardin in French and garden in English, jand g sounding similar, as in the English word garage where we add an e to soften the g to a j sound. Encouraged by this easy word, I started checking my dictionary for easy to recognize and read words which I might see on street signs, shop signs, menus, or hear or want to say in a hotel or restaurant. My search was easy and fun.

Later, I started learning Spanish on duolingo, then Portuguese.

Portuguese - English

a partir de  - from

barco - boat (Both start with the letter b. Both include the vowels o and a, although in reverse order. Sounds like embark.)

beber - drink (Like imbibe)

boa - good

bom dia - good day/morning

isto - this (both words contain the letter t i and s, is is in the same order

minha - mine (the first three letters are the same)

navio - ship

onde - where

por favor - please (Same as the Spanish, and like the English for a favour, or do me a favour)

porta - door/port

porto - harbour

porque - why

quando - when

que horas - what time

quem - who

torre - tower

tu - you (same as the French)

English - Portuguese

boat - barco

door - porta

from - a partir de

good - boa

good day - bom dia

good morning - bom dia

good afternoon

good evening

good night

harbour - porto

her - ela

him - ele

him, her, it - ele, ela, isto

them - eles

this - isto

please - por favor

port - porta

ship - navio (as in navigate)

tower - torre (the same as the Spanish)

what time - que horas

when - quando (like the song, quando, quando, quando, when when when)

where - onde

who - quem

why - porque

you - tu

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https://www.facebook.com/polyglotclub.world/

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Abandoned 1700s Fairy Tale Castle ~ Owner Died in a Car Crash! Potential for Parador style renovation

The Spaniards have paradors, old ruined places taken over by the government and restored as hotels serving regional recipes, to encourage tourists to visit areas around the country.

The Portuguese have pousadas. The same principle.

Perhaps the French, and the British, could adopt this idea.

Useful Websites

Paradors

https://www.parador.es/

Pousadas

Portuguese Pastries and Polar Puffs in Singapore, Macau in China and London, England

 

Custard Tarts and Almond Tarts from Polar in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury

Portuguese egg tarts, sold in Singapore, are known in England as Maids of Honour. If I remember rightly, which I rarely do, the original recipe was said to be the secret of "The Original Maids of Honour shop" near Kew Gardens, south of the Thames, near Hampton Court, the summer palace. The tarts were supposedly made by the maids of honour of Portuguese Queen Catherine of Braganza. I may have got the story wrong, but, as the saying goes, 'why let the truth get in the way of a good story'.

Wiki has other ideas:

Maids of Honour tart (also known as Maids of Honour cake and Richmond Maids of Honor) is a traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry shell filled with cheese curds.  A variation is to add jam or almonds and nutmeg.   Traditionally the tart was a puff pastry filled with sweetened milk curds.

The tart is said to date back to King Henry VIII when he witnessed some of the Queen's Maids of honour eating some cakes and demanded to taste one.  He found them delicious and named them after the maids.  There are ideas that go even further, citing that the maid who made the tarts was imprisoned and had to produce them solely for the King. However, there is another theory that they were named after Anne Boleyn, a maid of honour at the time, who made the cakes for Henry VIII.

A tea room in Kew, south-west London, "The Original Maids of Honour", dates back to the 18th century and was set up specifically to sell these tarts.

Photo from Wikipedia.

In Singapore, a friend brought as custard tarts for tea. He said: 

"These Portuguese tarts were made in Macau, an island which used to be Portuguese. (It is now Chinese.) Some Macau Chinese people came to Singapore, bringing the recipe with them. 

"Now Polar is one of the most popular pastry bakeries in Singapore. They have many outlets and their cakes sell out fast."

Polar cake box from Singapore. Photo credit, photo by Angela Lansbury.

The cakes you buy come in protective cardboard boxes with a distinctive shiny green outside. You carry off your purchases wrapped in a striped green and white 'plastic' bag bearing the word Polar. Polar, which is a reminder of polar bears might seen odd in the hot tropics.

Polar is a halal bakery, handy if you are keeping halal or have halal visitors.

Useful Websites

UK

https://web.archive.org/web/20140202174505/http://www.theoriginalmaidsofhonour.co.uk/about/history/

SINGAPORE

https://polarpuffs-cakes.com/

https://www.halaltrip.com/downloadable-halal-travel-guides/

The Author

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

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Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

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Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

 

How To Say The Word for Travel in several languages

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The English and American for travel are the same. But the British say holiday, whilst the Americans say vacation.

English - travel
Arabic - safar (like safari, also Bangla, Hindi, Urdu)
Catalan - viatge (spelling with a g like voyage, closer to the French than the Spanish)
Esperanto - vojaĝi
French - voyage

Hindi - safar (also Arabic, Bangla, Urdu)
Indonesian - perjalanan
Italian - viaggio
Malay- bepergian (to travel)
Norwegian - Reise
Portuguese (Brazil) - viagem



Spanish - viaje
Urdu - safar (also Arabic, Bangla, Hindi)

I tried the Chinese for I like to travel in Google translate. I could grasp wo for I.

我喜欢
去旅行

Wǒ xǐhuān
qù lǚxíng

Useful Websites
Polyglot page on Facebook
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Duolingo

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About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

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https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
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Find Ten Easy to Remember or Identical Words in Other languages, such as pineapple and thank you

Today's challenge.
Can you find me ten easy to remember words in foreign languages?

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English / American / Australian / Kiwi (New Zealand)

1 French

2 German

3 Spanish

4 Italian

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5 Portugese

Now for the harder ones:

6 Greek (modern)

7 Hebrew (modern)

8 Russian (Cyrillic - also for use in Bulgaria)

9 Chinese (modern and in pinyin which is English alphabet). Also used in Singapore

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10 Malay / Indonesian

11 Tamil/Urdu/Hindi

12 Arabic (modern)

13 Japanese

My Facebook friends made these suggestions:

From another friend called Angela, who is overseas:
One language is hard enough. Missing you.

From my Greek friend from Toastmasters, Panos:
 Greek words: 
Logos - 
Ethos - 
Pathos 
(These are also borrowed in making words such as logic, ethics and pathology etc.)

Thank you in other languages
Filipino / salamat



Chinese / xie xie
German / danke
Spanish / gracias
Italian / grazie



Portuguese / obrigado
Dutch / dank u
Japanese / arrigatu
French / merci (The same word is used understood in Romania)
English / Thank you


About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
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A few words of Portuguese

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I was reading a news article about the good news that the German police had a new suspect in the case of the kidnapping and disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal. A photo of a house was labelled with the Portugese words escola velho, translated as old school.

I was struck by how easy it was to recognize and remember Portuguese words.

Portuguese - English
escola vehla - old school (old school building)

Notice that both words, the noun and the adjective end in the letter a, matching.
I copied the Portuguese for old and mistyped it twice. The first time I noticed I had typed vehlo, seeing the o in the middle of the word school.

The second time I typed velha instead of vehla, transposing the h and the l. I then remembered the Yiddish, oy veh! VEH.

Finally I had the words right, escola, vehla. hl pronounced y -l like vey -lya

Later I went into Translate google and put into the English side old school and up came the translation

English - Portuguese
old school (old style, or old fashioned) - moda antigua

That reminds me of the French a la mode, at (translates into in) the fashion.

(Pie a la mode in the USA is with ice cream.)

Antigua in Portuguese reminds me of the English word antique, as in antiques shop.

Where can you use Portuguese? Over on the American continent in South America in Brazil. In Europe in Portugal. Offshore from Portugal in the Atlantic in the island of Madeira. Or as I did when reading news articles about places in Portuguese speaking countries.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
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What is there to love about Little Luxembourg?

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Luxembourg is called the Gibraltar of the North. At its heart is a fortress.

Unfortunately it was overcome and invaded in WW2. However the European Union has brought 60 years of peace and a voice to this small country.

What is there to love? Free wifi in parts of the city. The people speak lots of French and German as well as a local language and many Portuguese people have gone there looking for work.

Timewise, Luxembourg is one hour ahead of Britain and six hours behind Singapore.
More tomorrow.

Author
Author, Author! About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. (Not related to the actress.)
Author of twenty books including: Quick Quotations; Who Said What When.
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I can't stop learning Portuguese and Spanish.

English - Portuguese

taxi - taxi
hotel- hotel
bank - banco
port - puerto
blue - azul - (like azure which is a bright blue)

name - nome
first name - primeiro nome (like primary school)
family name/surname - sobrenome
table - mesa
room - quarto (like living quarters)

one - um (like French un and English one - remember: How many? Um - one.)
two - dois (like two dice)
three - três (tr as in triple, tricycle, trio; think of three trespassers)
four - quatro (like quadrangle in English and quarter and quatre in French)
ten - dez (sounds a bit like decimal)

Useful Websites
Languages
translate google
duolingo
duolingo.com

https://www.visitbrasil.com/key-information/language.html
memrise
memrise.com
https://www.mezzoguild.com/portuguese-and-brazilian/

Travel
https://www.visitportugal.com/en
https://www.visitbrasil.com/

About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, speaker, author, and teacher of languages.
Latest book: An ebook  Improve Your English. Several books by different authors have that title. Make sure to add the name Angela Lansbury.
I have written a post about the Spanish restaurant in Melaka, called Salud which means cheers.
Please share links to your favourite pages.
Update
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Yes, you can understand Spanish and Portuguese 50 words!

           
Flags of Portugal, Brazil and Spain.

Portuguese and Spanish are so similar. Portugal is next door to Spain in Europe and Portuguese speaking Brazil is surrounded by Spanish speaking countries in South America. It makes sense to learn to recognize a few words of both languages, especially if you are travelling from one to another. I always try to learn a few words in the month or six months before my next trip.

You find Portuguese words in South America (Brazil - population more than two hundred million), Europe (Portugal - population more than ten million), the island of Madeira in the Atlantic, Asia (Macau and East Timor) and Africa.


Map of the world showing Portuguese speaking countries. Source: Wikipedia.

Rio De Janeiro
You may think you don't know a single word of Portuguese, but actually you know three. You know the name of the city Rio de Janeiro? Right? That's river of January.De is of.

Let's see if we can compile a list of instantly recognizable Portuguese and Spanish words.

I went into Google translate and typed out a lot of everyday words. I deleted those translations which were too hard to remember and left only those which were instantly recognizable

       

1) ENGLISH WORDS - Portuguese
river - rio
January - Janeiro
water - água
tea - chá
wine - vinho

5 words

garden - jardim
sea - mar
street - rua
king - rei (with an e as in regal)
sandwich - sanduiche

Another 5. That's 10

pizza - pizza
hamburger - Hamburger
meat - carne
cheese - queijo
pork - carne de porco

15 words.

salmon - salmão
smoked salmon - salmão fumado
salad - salada
glass of water -copo de água - cup or glass of water, (agua sounds like aquarium filled with water)
cup of tea - copo de chá

20 words

white coffee - café branco
sugar - açúcar (Remember the c with the cedilla or tail underneath sounds lik an s or sh)
brown sugar -açúcar mascavo - ( Muscovado sugar gets its name from here)
cocktail - coquetel
bar - barra

25 words

restaurant - restaurante
toilet - banheiro
ladies - senhoras
gentlemen - cavalheiros
girls - meninas

30 words

shoes - sapatos (memory aid: footwear to separate your toes)
sandals - sandália (notice the accent on the a)
jacket - jaqueta
blouse - blusa
flower - flor

35 words

flowers - flores
pretty - bonita
good - boa
beach - de praia
sea - mar

40 words

good morning - bom dia
good afternoon - boa tarde
good evening - boa noite
good night - boa noite
goodbye -Tchau
hello - Olá

46 words
Not bad for day one.

Let's get to 50 words.
Pick colours - just the ones which are easy to remember.

pink - rosa
green - verde

48 words

Some essentials:
passport - passaporte (keep the double s, just add an e in Portuguese)
immigration - imigração

That's 50! Here are the translations into  Portuguese




2) PORTUGUESE - ENGLISH
rio - river
Janeiro - January
água - water
chá - tea
vinho - wine

jardim - garden
mar - sea
rua - street
rei - king
sanduíche - sandwich

pizza - pizza
Hamburger - hamburger
carne (meat - like our English word carnivore meaning meat-eater)
queijo - cheese (c/ch/qu and ee/ei = cheese)
carne de porco (meat of pork)

salmão - salmon
salmão fumado - smoked salmon (think of salmon left in the fumes of smoke)
salada - salad
copo de água - cup or glass of water, (agua sounds like aquarium filled with water)
copo de chá (cup of tea, we used to say cha and the char lady did chores and served tea)

café branco - white coffee
açúcar - sugar (Remember the c with the cedilla or tail underneath sounds lik an s or sh)
açúcar mascavo - sugar Muscovado)
coquetel - cocktail

Barra - bar
restaurante - restaurant
banheiro - toilet, bathroom
senhoras - ladies
cavalheiros - men (cavaliers, horseback riders, chivalry)

meninas (Like the painting Las Meninas)
sapatos - shoes
sandálias (sandals)
jaqueta - jacket
blusa - blouse

flor - flower
flores - flowers
bonita - pretty
Boa - good
de praia - beach
mar - sea

bom Dia - good day/good morning
boa tarde - good afternoon (tarde, tardy, late)
boa noite - good evening or night
boa noite - good night
Tchau - goodbye
Olá - hello! (like 'allo backwards)

rosa - pink
verde - green

Then I did the translation Spanish into Englsih

3) Spanish - English
Rio - river
enero - January
Agua - water
te - tea
vino - wine

jardin - garden
mar - sea
Calle - street
Rey - king
sandwich - sandwich

pizza - pizza
Hamburguesa - hamburger
carne - meat
queso - cheese
carne de puerco - pork

salmón - salmon
salmón ahumado - smoked salmon
ensalada - salad
vaso de agua - glass of water
taza de te - cup of tea

cafe blanco - white coffee
azucar - sugar
azúcar moreno - brown sugar
cóctel - cocktail

Bar - bar
restaurante - restaurant
baño - bathoom
señoras - gentlemen
señores - ladies

chicas
zapatos - shoes
sandalias - sandals
Chaqueta - jacket
camisa - blouse (remember, top, like the word camisole)

flor - flower
flores - flowers
hermosa - pretty
Bueno - good
de playa - beach, like the French plage, think of playing on the beach
mar - like the English word marine and French word mer)

Buen día - good day/god morning
buenas tardes -
buenas noches - good evening
buenas noches - good night
Adios - goodbye
Hola - hello

1b) More English to Portuguese

English - Portuguese
river - rio
pink - rosa
green - verde

2b) Back to Portuguese to English

Portuguese - English
rio - river
rosa - pink
verde - green

3 ) Now English to Spanish
English - Spanish
river -
pink
green

4) Spanish - English

Finally, compare the Spanish and the Portuguese
Spanish - Portuguese




5) English - Portuguese - Spanish
river - rio -rio
January - Janeiro - Enero
wine - vinho - vino (add an h for the Portuguese)
garden - jardim - jardin (Spanish is closer to French and English, ending in n. Portuguese uses m.)
sea - mar - mar (the same sea, same in both languages)
street - rua - calle (the Portuguese is easier, closer to the French word rue)
king - rei - rey (Spanish for king is with a y, like the English regal; Portugese just the quick i)
meat - carne - carne (the same in both languages)

Useful Websites
Languages
translate google
duolingo
duolingo.com



https://www.visitbrasil.com/key-information/language.html
memrise
memrise.com
https://www.mezzoguild.com/portuguese-and-brazilian/

Travel
https://www.visitportugal.com/en
https://www.visitbrasil.com/

About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, speaker, author, and teacher of languages.
Latest book: An ebook  Improve Your English. Several books by different authors have that title. Make sure to add the name Angela Lansbury.
I have written a post about the Spanish restaurant in Melaka, called Salud which means cheers.
Please share links to your favourite pages.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

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