Brazilian Portuguese

Introduction
The Portuguese language is the 6th most spoken in the world, with over 200,000,000 native speakers in Brazil alone. (Another estimated 11 million in Portugal.) It's a Category I language, meaning that it is relatively easy for a native English speaker to learn. How easy is it? And how hard does it get?

Things you'll find easy about learning Brazilian Portuguese:
 * Sentence structure is close to English
 * Very similar to Spanish vocabulary-wise
 * Phonetic (every word follows a pronunciation pattern)

The hard part? And finally, this course isn't designed to be a chore! It's designed to be fun! Don't feel you have to drag yourself through bits you don't like or find boring. No one's looking if you skip a lesson. But at the same time, don't give up when it gets tough!
 * Producing nasal sounds
 * Open and closed vowels (sounds intimidating but I'm sure you can master it in less than 30 minutes)
 * Complex conjugation system
 * The many verb tenses

Contents
This section is currently under construction, so information on the contents page may differ from content in each lesson

WATCH THIS SPACE- Intermediate level lessons coming soon

More useful resources

 * /Irregular verbs- Some common, irregular verbs conjugated in the present tense
 * /Useful words- Some basic, yet important words that you should know
 * /Portuguese-speaking countries- Information about Portuguese speaking countries, to help bolster your cultural knowledge
 * /Verb conjugation table- The 3 regular verb conjugations and most-used irregular conjugations