The Solid Foundation for Speaking Portuguese

It's time to nail pronunciation and rules.

Welcome to my 26 In-Depth Phonetic Exercises for Speaking and Understanding Brazilians.

Essential for beginners and if you struggle with listening and pronunciation.

This course will present you with the secrets to build a solid foundation.

Over the last 10 years of teaching and working with students from different cultures, I have delved into the art of acquiring Brazilian Portuguese for foreigners. It is an amazing science I fell in love with at a very young age. Orality can be a complex phenomenon, and it requires specific and well-designed practices.

The oral competence requires scientific strategies. It's a process which includes rhythm, intonation, accent, resonance, and related attributes.

Throughout 26 practical exercises you will learn, develop and practice the Brazilian pronunciation.

The objective is to evolve your speaking and listening skills in a way that trains your brain and elevates your phonetic recognition capability at different speeds.

Obs: these techniques and procedures have been applied to hundreds of students from different backgrounds during years of practice.

You will learn.:Pronouncing vowels & consonants rules, their combination, phonemes, linking sounds.

(ch,x,lh,ss,z,j, ei, ai, ou, ói, ia, aia, êi, ái, ui, ué)

-Snippers, excerpts, audios, videos, transcripts taken from real content with meaningful interactions

Techniques to evolve language confidence

-Brazilian prosody, devoicing, elision, stress and unstressed vowels, closed and open syllables, rothic, nasalization, diphthongs, alternation, articulation.

-Regionalism, tons of voice for cultural interactions, body gestures in Brazil, en/es/port contrast,

short-cuts to improve your speaking,

Vamos lá? Let's start?

Prof. Carmen