Do you know when to use mudar and trocar in Portuguese? A common mistake made by intermediate Portuguese speakers is to use trocar when they should use mudar. Watch this video to learn the proper usage of mudar and trocar. [leadplayer_vid id=”5241CE9F1C3F2″] Both mudar and trocar mean to change. But beyond that they both have […]

As someone who is just starting out learning Brazilian Portuguese you probably have no idea where to start. Especially if you’ve never learned a foreign language before, or if your only language learning experience came from an ineffective high school class, you’re swimming around lost in a sea of information. What you need is a […]

Picking up where I left off yesterday by asking someone for the time, today I decided to ask for directions in the most basic Portuguese I could muster. Take a look. What I want to demonstrate with this video is that you don’t need to speak Portuguese fluently in order to get your meaning across. […]

I made today’s video in response to yesterday’s video where I challenged you to speak more Portuguese and speak less English. In the video I stop a random person on the street and ask them what time it is. Doing short little exercises like this will have a great effect on improving your Portuguese. Asking […]

Learning Portuguese while living in Brazil can be complicated. If you’re not satisfied with your progress so far there is one simple thing that you likely need to change in order to improve.