What is the best way to learn Portuguese?

You can PM me anytime you’d like and I’ll be glad to help you ;)

My advice? Listen to some music that has Portuguese lyrics. Also, hang out with some Portuguese people and learn a few words/phrases whatever. Takes some classes, in school or online, translate phrases from the internet. It’s a lot cheaper than the rosetta stone, but it takes some effort.

Move to Portugal. Most Portuguese will love you just for taking an interest.

@teh_kvlt_liberal & @holden As a Portuguese I have to agree with both of you. Music is very good to learn phrase structures and so on, and I’m sure there isn’t a singles Portuguese person that wouldn’t want to help you out on your Portuguese lessons.

P.S. I love this question and I love talking about my country to others :)

Thank you so much for your offer to help me learn Portuguese bvdshec17. I just love the language and I am envious of anyone who can speak it. I have had years of Spanish classes and I am upset I did not take a Portuguese class.

@bvdshec17 my grandmother’s Portuguese and I have many second and third cousins in Lisbon.

@CaseyWVU10 where do you live? The best way to learn any language is to surround yourself with native speakers. For example, in Sacramento where I grew up there is a large immigrant Russian and Ukrainian population so the best way to pick up Russian phrases or colloquialisms was to hang out with that crowd. I think there are some pretty large Portuguese settlements on the east coast.

@holden You’re right:

Contributing to the strong ties between the United States and Portugal are the 20,000 Americans living in Portugal and some sizable Portuguese communities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. The latest census estimates that 1.3 million individuals living in the United States are of Portuguese ancestry, with a large percentage coming from the Portuguese Autonomous region of the Azores Islands.

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I live in Maryland, I am going to sign up for a Portuguese class at my school and hopefully meet some Portuguese people to surround myself with. I want to live in Lisbon when I am older and have my career.

Are Portuguese accepting of Americans in Portugal? I lived in Barcelona for four months and the Spaniards were tough on us Americans, but I loved living there, just wondering if it is the same in Portugal.

Portuguese people don’t have as much machismo as Spaniards. They’re a pretty mellow, easy-going crowd. I think you would be well accepted there.

@CaseyWVU10 In continental Portugal I can’t tell you, because I never had contact with them there, but in the Azores Islands you can’t go wrong! Almost everybody is a Portuguese emigrant that lived in the US and Canada.

Oh how exciting, I just looked at the Azores Islands and they are beautiful…I can’t wait to go!!!

Whatever you decide to use, may I just add one small tip. Make sure you have a written sample of the words you are trying to pronounce. That always helped me, not just to pronounce the word you hear, but also to understand the language better.

Well, as a Brazilian, my advice is to be careful with the differences between the Portuguese spoken in Brazil and The Portuguese spoken in Portugal.

The grammar is the same but the accent is completely different.

Try to listen to a Bossa Nova song and then a Fado song and you see what I’m talking about. :)

Firstly: the best way to learn Portuguese is really coming over to Portugal. Portuguese has a lot of irregular verbs, and it’s really hard to learn for English/American people. I’m Portuguese and I speak English fluently, I do know what I’m talking about LOL.

Second: Portugal has a lot of American people =D We’re accepting

As soon as I can make it to Portugal, I will be there…for now I am a poor college student finishing a degree. Once I have some experience in my career field I plan on moving to Portugal definitely.

Hello I want to learn English, I’m Brazilian, but I really can not learn in language school we have here, I wonder if there is interest in teaching me English and I teach Brazilian Portuguese for you