European Portuguese Pronunciation | The Secret Hack Every Beginner Must Know!

European Portuguese Pronunciation | The Secret Hack Every Beginner Must Know! – Are you still sounding “foreign” when you speak Portuguese? Don’t worry, I’ve got you! In this video, I’m teaching one simple rule that is going to instantly improve your Portuguese pronunciation if you can get it right. I’ll give you a clue, it’s all about stress… Hit that play button and let's get started! – Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal by Liz Sharma, a Portuguese teacher in Lisbon and founder of Talk the Streets.

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[adrianwhyatt]

This is also excellent revision for those of us already here in Portugal for quite some time. Thanks!

[couldrey]

Oooh, so the RULZ for exceptions, with emphasis on last syllable, are words ending with RULZ...that helps.

[vooides]

😍😍 A rainha do portugués con sotaque de Hatfield 😝 Más guapa que las pesetas 😉💔

[ariathy]

Turns out I'm kind of like the penultimate syllable in Portuguese words without an accent because I, too, am stressed almost all the time

[ccsecretwealth]

You look smart and beautiful. I'm trying to learn Portuguese and surely you come across as someone I need a dedicated Tutor for myself

[nikkidunne]

Very helpful! Playing around with Duolingo Portuguese and I have been struggling to see the pattern in how syllables are stressed. It's makes sense now!

[Orik_S]

Great video! teaching stress-timed syllable tips to de-stress the learning process. Wonderful as always :)

[carolinareddy]

Fantastic hack, you're amazing Liz xoxo

[melaniewilloughby]

Love your top tips - thanks as always Liz. Bjs

[TeaAndFloppyDisks]

The way I learned it regarding final syllable stress is that for words ending in u or i or a consonant, but ignoring final s, m or ns, the stress will be on the final syllable. So far, this seems accurate according to the Porto Editora dictionary. They provide the IPA transcription for most words, including which syllable to stress.

[valyriantime]

As palavras terminadas por "i" também levam o acento tónico na última sílaba, não é? Por exemplo: aqui, abacaxi

[Alxmir]

eu tenho problemas para dizer frases rapidamente mas nao e um problema para escrivar( or escriver?)

[josephcocucci]

what about if the word ends in "ao" (corazao, for instance)? [sorry i can't do accents with my keyboard]. In those cases, would the accents also be on the ultimate syllable?

[rosaluxbg]

Liz, do you have a lesson for advanced learners too? More ore less B2 level?

[gustavoolivieri]

Also i, I believe: ali, tipi... u and i on the last syllable don't get the ’ diacritic. Many native speakers don't know this grammar rule though, so you'll see it happen in the internet, informally.

[sohopedeco]

Words ending in "i" are typically stressedbon the last syllable too, but I guess they are rather infrequent in European Portuguese, given in Brazil they are mostly indigenous words.

[VictoriaQuisito]

I just wanna Someone to improve my inglesh with me and I can help to learn portuguese too
My first language is portuguese

[KatieBancroft]

Can you please spell out how you pronounce the name Aurélia in Portuguese pronunciation? I don't want people to think my daughter is called 'Ear' 😂

[elainelayabout]

What if there is more than one syllable with a stress mark?