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Rsrs, hahaha, lol, kkkk | WordReference Forums Prescriptive grammarians say we should write "Ah, ah", but that looks ridiculous to me, because the aspiration is clearly before the vowel when we speak, and because "Ah!" is an interjection showing comprehension in Portuguese I write: haha hehe hihi These are onomatopoeia, so I don't think their spelling is too crucial Take your pick
Como usar os pronomes: a, o, os, as, lo, la, los, las? In European Portuguese when the sentence begins with a verb you have to use enclise, otherwise you can use proclise With furute and conditional tenses you have to use mesoclise (because these tenses were perifrastic in the past, formed by infinitive + present imperfect of the verb to have) Digo-o (I say it) Não o digo (I don't say it)
How difficult is it to learn Portuguese as an English speaker? Portuguese verbs do have a few additional complications though when compared to spoken Spanish, such as the subjunctive future, the personal infinitive, and a larger number of irregular past participles (e g suspenso, eleito, entregue, preso, pago, pego, etc )
Italian vs Portuguese - WordReference Forums Portuguese and Italian d sound the same, but Spanish d between vowels is similar to an English voiced th Both Portuguese and Italian have the sh sound in shoe, but general Spanish doesn't (a few dialects do, though)
Pronunciation of o, ó and ô - WordReference Forums It has not become "naturalized" in my spoken Portuguese (although in written Portuguese, it's quite simple ) In the city I live in, Fortaleza, there is an even more complicated situation with a single spelling (but different accents) that results in three pronunciations and meanings, one of which is quite rude
pronounciation: João - WordReference Forums In this forum's Resources sticky, there are links to some websites where you can type a word, and listen to how it's pronounced in Portuguese Look them up here If you are familiar with phonetic notation, "Jo ã o" is pronounced [ʒwɐ̃u̯] (the [ɐ̃] should have a tilde on it, which stands for nasalization) As the other posters have noted
Romance languages: order of difficulty | WordReference Forums European Portuguese and Romanian are probably the most conservative romance languages: Portuguese has got the richest verbal system (personal infinitive, future subjunctive and simple past perfect) and the usage of clitic, enclitic and mesoclitic object pronouns is really tricky Portuguese also has a bunch of contractions and a few irregular