Seven Pronunciation Hacks For you To Sound Less Gringo - How To Learn Portuguese
Channel: About Brazil
Date: 08/12/2023

Let's reduce this gringo accent! Watch also my pronunciation series with 15-videos.  Here is the link:

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From the series How To Learn Portuguese: Today I will teach you Seven Pronunciation Hacks For you To Sound Less Gringo - How to Learn Portuguese


1 - Words ending in EM
The trick is to think of EM as "ain," as in pain or gain. 

2 - Words ending in AL
That one is easy, you pronounce this ending as OW as in cow

3 - Words with diphthong -AU
As an English speaker, you might be tempted to say "pósa" or "ôdio." But this is incorrect, of course.

4 - Words beginning with R
This one is easy. too. R in the beginning of a word is pronounced as H,  as in heat, hot.

5 - R between vowels (little)
The sound of this R is very different from the previous one. 
This R sound is vibrating and itis very, very similar to the flap T, as in little, water

6 - Words beginning with H
I’ll give you a hand. H is never pronounced in Portuguese, so… hoje, higiene, habitante,

7 - Words ending with ÃO
Lets see how to pronounce correctly the famous ão ending. one of the most difficult sounds in Portuguese

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