Portuguese words and how to remember them

Problem
New words - how do I remember them?

Answer
Make up a sentence using the visual sequence.


English - Portuguese
cake - bola (Cake made in a bowl makes a bowl shape cake)
onion - cebola (see an onion shaped like a ball or bowl or a ball which you bowl)
(an) orange - (uma) laranja
(a) plate - (um) prato
recipe - receita - (recipe - ta which is thanks in slang)
rice - arroz
salad - salada (salad - ah!)
sandwich - sanduiche (oo - you want a sandwich)
the snack - o lanche (the snack lunch)
woman - mulher (a woman might be a mother)

Portuguese - English
arroz - rice
cebola - onion
bola - cake
(o) lanche - the snack
(uma) laranja - (an) orange
mulher - woman
(um) prato - a plate
receita - recipe
salada - salad
sanduiche - sandwich

Now you are starting to learn Portuguese, ready for a trip to Portugal, Madeira, Brazil or another country or a Portuguese restaurant.

Useful websites:

visitportugal.com (Official site)

http://visitbrasil.com/en/

https://www.roughguides.com/destinations/europe/portugal/

http://duolingo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language
https://translate.google.com/

https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/madeira
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/madeira-wine-two-hundred-year-old-found-fortified-cellar-new-jersey-liberty-hall-union-a7835881.html
http://www.kean.edu/libertyhall/about/history

duolingo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/port-and-portuguese-wine-labels-and.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-to-ask-for-food-and-drink-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/learn-your-first-ten-words-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-do-you-say-please-in-portuguese-is.

visitportugal.com

visitbrasil.com

http://www.visitmadeira.pt/en-gb/homepage

earwormslearning.com

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The problems and pleasures of Welsh. What makes the Welsh language different?

Problem
You learn a word in Welsh. Then you discover another spelling (and pronunciation) of the same word.

Answer
As a speaker of Welsh who lives in Wales explained to me, the reason is that some words change the prefix (which starts the word) changes instead of or as well as the suffix (the letter or syllable or extra word or extra meaning which ends a word).

For example, I was looking at the word before post office. Yn. But I had learned that y=the.

I understood the two Welsh words for the better in relation to the English words a and an . They mean the same thing, but change in front of a vowel. If you learn Latin or Italian, you learn that endings change. In Welsh the start of the words is also like to change.

We do change both prefixes and suffixes in English. We say necessary and unnecessary. That's a change in the prefix, what is fixed before. The word prefix fixes pre before fix.

I find learning another language draws my attention to the structure of English.

Angela Lansbury, teacher of English as a foreign language and learner and teacher of foreign languages.

Second Steps In Learning Norwegian

Problem
How do I tell male from female.

Answer
Look at the letters and match them with the English.

Norwegian - English
en - a / an

Gutt - boy (he's a good boy)
(en) kvinne - woman  (the v looks like a w, the letter n is an both k v i n e and woman I Know she is a woman)
en jente - a girl (a gentle little girl, j and g sound similar)
eple - apple (looks very similar, last three letters the same say e p l e and it sounds like apple)
er - is (pronounced like are!)
han - he (letter a like the word Man or Mann)
hun - she (pronounced like the word wOman)
ikke - not (looks like icky - not what I want)
Jeg - I (capital J looks like I)
og - and (but don't pronounce the g)

English - Norwegian
a/an - en
and - og
apple - e p l e
boy - gutt
girl - dente
I - Jeg
not - ikke

However, the words are not pronounced the way they are written. You must listen to the words on
duolingo.com

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