Free basic Portuguese words

What's inside

• How Portuguese soundsPortuguese is mostly written the way it sounds. One page covers the nasal ão and ãe, lh, nh, ç, the Brazilian r, ti and di, the x and where the stress falls, with an example word for each.
• 222 words, colour-codedGreetings, question words, family, days, numbers, food, places and verbs, plus ser and estar. Every noun has its article in a colour: o blue, a pink. A small table shows the words Portugal says differently, like ônibus and autocarro.
• Show words and practiceReactions like Nossa! and Pois é, the rude words you'll hear on screen and shouldn't copy, te amo and saudade, then ten sentences to read before you check.

How to use it

1. Read the sounds page aloud once, then keep it next to you.
2. Learn five words a day, always with their o or a.
3. Cover the grey English on the last page and read each sentence aloud, then slide the paper down to check.
4. Watch something in Portuguese with Kitsumi and catch the words you know. Não, que and é turn up in nearly every line.

More free Portuguese printables

• Next stepPortuguese verbs guideMake verbs say who and when: the endings, the present, the past, the future with vou and estou comendo.
• 100 Portuguese phrases from showsThen pick up the lines shows use all the time: E aí?, Nossa!, Que saudade!, Me deixa em paz, Deixa pra lá and what mano and mermão really mean.

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