In preparation for my first trip to Azores and Lisbon in 1994 I took a semester of intensive elementary Brazilian Portuguese at NYU. I didn't realize there would be a big difference between the languages of Brazil and Portugal but there are.
For one, the use of second person singular você but not tu is used in Brazil whereas both are used in Portugal with specific rules about when to use the familiar tu and when to use você. Also, pronunciation is very different. For example the word for aunt - tia - is pronounced "chia" in Brazil - not so in Portugal. On my first trip to Portugal everyone thought I was Brazilian - I didn't know how to conjugate verbs using tu so I just added an "ess" to the end of the verb for você. Instead of saying você quere (do you want) I'd say tu queres (but only to someone I was very familiar with) - it sometimes worked but irregular verbs in Portuguese are a real challenge. I certainly made a lot of mistakes! Two years later I learned about a month-long culture and language summer program for "estrangeiros" at the University of Lisbon. Here's the link. http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clcp/verao/cursos.html It wasn't that expensive and I was able to get funding from Instituto Camões. Here's the link. ( www.instituto-camoes.pt/activity/o-que-fazemos/aprender-portugues/bolsas-de-estudo ) If you can spend a month in Lisbon in July I would highly recommend this program. MaryAnn On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good morning is "Bom dia." In European Portuguese, it's "Bom dia." In > Brazilian, it's "Bom G-ah." You say "G" then "ah." That's how you pronounce > the leading "D" in Brazilian Portuguese. Cheri > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- *MaryAnn Santos* Senior Advisement and Student Affairs Administrator Department of Art and Art Professions NYU/Steinhardt 212.998.5702 m...@nyu.edu Follow us at *Twitter / @NYUart <https://twitter.com/NYUart>Instagram / @nyuart <http://instagram.com/nyuart>* *Facebook / NYU Art Department <https://www.facebook.com/pages/NYU-Art-Department/53833145389>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
