Portuguese Words For shopping -and restaurants - easy to recognize

 Portuguese language is handy in Portugal in Europe and in Brazil in South America. 

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Portuguese - English

abastecimento - supply

adulto - adult

alimento seco - dry food (the adjective comes after the noun)

amendoa - almond

banho - bath

bifana - steak

bife - beef

biscoito - biscuit (UK) /cookie ((USA)

bola - ball

bolo - cake

cebola - onion

comida quente - hot food

fresco - fresh

frutos de bosque  - forest fruits

congelado - frozen

cozido - baked

daqui - from here

farinha - flour

flor - flower

fri - cold

ganhe - win (like the English word gain)

infantil - child

maquina - machine

manteiga - butter

mel - honey

melhores - best

mercado - market

roupa - clothing (like the English word robe(s)

supermarcado - supermarket

tarte - tart

tomate - tomato

tudo - all

vinho - wine

Pessego - peach

Five Romanian Words to Recognize While Eating Pancake with Lemon

Problem
How do I learn more words?

Answer
Just keep going. Learning languages is like the old joke about who too you eat an elephant. The answer is one bite at a time.

English
apricot - c a i s a (with accents)
lemon - l a m a i e (cap shape over the first a but hat over the second a)
orange - portocala (bowl shape above the final a)
Pancake or crepe (a French word) - clatita (rhymes with eat her)
peach - piersica (PEACh - PiErsiCA - both have the four letters PEAC, although the Romanians have the last two in a different order)

Now we have learned five words it would be handy to learn to recognize or say pancake with lemon please. So let's learn with and please.
please - t e  r o g (or v a rog - equivalent to French T u to a friend or child, v a more formal, think r o g as Request and roger, roger over an out, request to roger is dog, if you please, t e  r o g or v a  r o g  - I inserted spaces because the automatic spell checker suggests dog; g in request also visually resembles reg with a round top and a tail)

Romanian
c a i s a - apricot (with accents)
clatita - crepe or pancake
cu is with (which was in the previous post)
l a m a i e - lemon (both words have the letters L.M and an e)
piersica - peach (both words contain PEA - PEAch and PiErsicA)
portocala - orange

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