European Portuguese - Why Your Conversation Skills Suck & What To Do About It

European Portuguese - Why Your Conversation Skills Suck & What To Do About It – Do you feel like your Portuguese conversation skills still suck? Are you tired of feeling stuck and silent on the sidelines? You could be doing speaking practice right now, and I’m here to help you learn HOW! Let’s bust some common myths together and find a new perspective on how to improve your Portuguese conversation skills, even if you're miles away from Portugal or haven't met a single Portuguese person! – Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal by Liz Sharma, a Portuguese teacher in Lisbon and founder of Talk the Streets.

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Diz olá on social:

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[TalktheStreets]

How do you practice conversation? If you don't, how will you start NOW?

[zuberkhilji]

You make good videos, i recently moved to portugal and wants to learn it asap

[andrew]

Pro tip: marry a portuguese speaker so they're contractually obligated to stay with you and you can practise all the portuguese you want

[davidstoeckl]

We're down to our last few days of our month in Portugal. Your lessons have ever been a great help, though admittedly most of my conversations were some type of greeting and saying obrigado.

[angelajenkinson]

Thanks Liz. I read this and went straight to a community page on Facebook and asked for a Portuguese language partner. Wish me luck 😅

[TeaAndFloppyDisks]

I don't agree that people should wait to speak until they have some more knowledge of the language. Speaking is very good practice and will help you learn faster and retain the information better. I'm sure there are people out there who would help a newbie out and speak slowly and correct their mistakes if needed. And if a conversation is a bit daunting, speaking to yourself is a good starting point too.

[rickchandler]

I’ll have to ping those two ladies on the community. I live in Portland as well and would love to chat with someone in Portuguese
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[jul]

Ainda não escutei o seu vlog 'Learn European Portuguese with Apps (NEW for 2023!)', mas sorprendei-me um bocadinho que neste vlog, não falaste do Tandem e Hello Talk. Os descobri no canal da Liz. Muitos dos seus estudantes tiveram problemas?
Eu tenho feito vários intercâmbios com Portugueses e Brasileiros, também participei em numerosos parties no Tandem, acho que si se pode encontrar pessoas serias. Se calhar, muitas mulheres preferiam usar o filtro para procurar só outras mulheres para reduzir a incidência de "creepiness".

Para mim, e mais problema encontrar pessoas que realmente querem fazer uma troca de linguais seria. Mas acho que hei conhecido varias pessoas interessantes. Vale a pena? Sim!

[leisl]

I’m in Portugal and it’s still hard! But taking Pilates has helped (although I know all these terms I can’t use anywhere else - Dobrar os joelhos,
Esticar as pernas, Mãos na cabeça). And now I’m in physical therapy and get to practice my speaking. They are happy to correct and I’m teaching them American slang (physical terrorist, hump day). 2 for the price of 1!

[Alxmir]

falo com meu pai mas nao entendo bem acorianos. literally pronounces Bem as bom

[iainminnock]

Love your site, but I just wanted to say that conversational skills have nothing to do with the words you know. I have a friend in Berlin who knows about 164 English words, but she can tell stories in English that have people in fits of laughter. Many native speakers of a language have no conversational skills at all and talking to them is like drawing blood from a stone. Just saying.