European Portuguese Pronunciation | 7 HARDEST words made easy!

European Portuguese Pronunciation | 7 HARDEST words made easy! – Test your European Portuguese pronunciation skills by tackling seven of the hardest words in Portuguese! Portuguese pronunciation is no easy task, but if you get these words right, you can pronounce pretty much any word you want. Ready for the challenge? Let’s do it! – Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal by Liz Sharma, a Portuguese teacher in Lisbon and founder of Talk the Streets.

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[TalktheStreets]

Which other words trip you up when trying to pronounce them? Comment below and I'll make a part two!

[mehrlicht]

também podes ensinar os lisboetas a dizer os ditongos

[francis_n]

I have been learning Brazilian Portuguese for a while and always knew Portuguese accent was different but when I heard two Portuguese friends talking I honestly couldn't understand anything. I was like, how can this be the same language???? I was so lost

[DagmarMetzler]

Excellent lesson, Liz, very helpful!

[francesantonacci]

My tip for the r in garrafa, is pronuncia como em francés, eu falo frances, italiano, inglés, español, estou aprendendo português, muito obrigada pelas dicas, procurarei lembrar algumas destas regras de pronúncia Liz.

[jxavier]

This was easier than expected the one I seem to struggle with is the first one.

[narryssa]

Muito obrigda, thank you so much for European Portuguese Lessons !!!

[bidibibip]

"Estacionamento" :D This must be the hardest word to say in any language, ever!!!

[Jejjnvejj]

Really appreciate this! One I'm struggling with is "rainha". Not that it's a one that I'll regularly use (almost never) but whenever it turns up I fail miserably

[guyosborn]

Thank you. After three months learning (with Leo, you, Carla, Mia, Maria and others (and vocab and grammar training)) AND doing the Caminho from Lisboa, google translates my spoken "revolução dos cravos" (and more) into English with no problems.

[manuelahelenafernandes]

Thanks! I enjoyed it and thought it was very good.

[GeraldFigal]

Another great video. Thank you! I really do have to start taking your course.

[peterlovstrom]

I’m still struggling with BEM-any top tips or video hyperlinks please 🙏?

[mollygarber]

Thank you for the video, Liz! I like your tip on pausing before difficult sounds when practicing until it feels natural. "Lh" is the trickiest for me, too. I had been pronouncing it like the "y" in "yoyo, " but a book I recently bought explained that you actually touch the back of your teeth with your tongue to make the sound, and it was a game changer! The Portuguese "rr" is like the French "r, " so I am okay with that, but words like raro and carregar that switch between "r" sounds sometimes trip me up. (And sobrecarregar is just plain mean! 😅)

[narryssa]

you are presenting that, what I missed for years!!!! So grateful to get exactly what I need to know for my pronunciation !!! Writing and reading works ok, but missed the right touch of a little lesson in portuguese language from the continent, of courseXXX Thank you so very much :)))😀😍🤩💕👋👋👋🌊🌊🌊🎀🇵🇹💚❤💚🇵🇹💚❤💚

[johnhowarth]

For me, the hardest to remember to pronounce is the 'sh' s at the end of almost every word! No problem at all with 'lh', but yes, the guttural 'rr' is close to impossible for me. And 'euros' had me defeated for quite a while - but it was hearing the word that was the problem. I find hearing spoken Portuguese to be way more challenging than pronouncing it myself. Not that my pronunciation is anything to write home about...

[scotthamm]

Wow, Liz! Such a helpful episode. I couldn’t get my head around most of these words. This video helped me with a technique to approach these problem words/sounds.

[ve.re.]

muito obrigada pelo teu video ótimo, Liz!! 👍🏻 eu aprendi muito! Para mim, os sons nasais são os mais difíceis para pronunciar 🙈

[theimpossiblemary]

Hi! Fellow Portuguese in here! 🙋🏻‍♀️ It is amazing how you can pronounce such difficult yet basic words. I speak three languages fluently and I remember that, when I was learning Italian, the word I struggled with the most (and I still do, I confess 🤣) was "città" (city) because we tend to put the stress in the "ci" (tch sound) instead of the "à". It is so hard to say it properly while speaking faster. So I comprehend your struggles and wish you all good luck! 🍀

[abadger]

Árvore is the hardest word for me to pronounce. I think it's the tapped r followed by a consonant instead of a vowel that makes it harder than other words for me. (In Japanese, the latin r makes a very similar sound. When people try to order teriyaki or nigiri, I always wince. I tell them it's primarily a d sound with a hint of r blended into it.)