Portuguese Pronunciation, Video 1: Portuguese Phonetics and Spelling 

Portuguese and Spanish are so alike, however i'm learning Portuguese from English because there's lot of more material than in my first language (Spanish) isn't it ironic?

The R sounds can differ a lot by region though

4 years later and your excellent videos are still reaching people like me

Eu Falo Portugues mas esse video está sendo muito util pra mim no Ingles pois ele contrastou bem os fonemas do portugues e do ingles. E era exatamente isso o que precisava ouvir. Por favor poste mais videos assim. É muito util pra ambos os idiomas.

The tapped R is a bit like the sound of T in english in the word battery.

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This is so good!!!! I hope this gets 1M views!

You can also say 'bõ.dʒ' instead of 'bõ.dʒi'. We won't even notice the difference. Some people say 'bõ.de' instead.

Thank you for Portuguese Phonetics and Spelling.

Thank you thank you thank you Andrew and Gabriel for this video series !!! I really need help on this from you guys

Love your videos on pronounciation and phonetics, excellent! Be aware though that the 'R' sound (not the trilled r) is more of an uvular /R/ rather than the glottal H you have suggested. Thank you again for your brilliant channel. /P

OMG :) I've been hoping you would make Portuguese pronunciation trainers! :D

Actually, in Brazilian Portuguese, the most common sound for the letter "o" at the end of words is something close to the short "u" as in "push". And the sound of the letter "r" in the beginning of a word usually makes a VOICED "h" sound (as in "aha", when you agree with sb) but, since there's a large variety of accents, it can make the fricative sounds that we find in the Spanish "j" or (in some southern accents) even the Spanish /r/.

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You have forgotten to mention the /χ/ sound, which is pretty common in standard pronunciation of Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and other places in words such as porta /'pɔχ.tɐ/ (door) and mercado /meχ.'ka.du/ (market). You didn't either mention that in those regions and others the final R in verb infinitives and some nouns is completely silent.

I always said "Mikei" instead of "Miki" as a Portuguese native speaker

The R has, in some accents, difference before a consonant and as final letter of the word. In mine(caipira), as example, we use the /ɹ/ sound in this cases, and in São Paulo city and the South of country, these cases are a /ɾ/ too.

Are you sure the R phoneme really doesn't exist in English? The American pronunciation of the T in 'better' or 'letter' sounds exactly like the Portuguese R to my Brazilian ears.

Fantastic video. Never found before

Excellent pronunciation course. I wish I found this when I started. Total beginners: Fluent Forever and Fun with Portuguese a Udemy course. Then: Semantica Portuguese video course combine with Glossika Brazilian Portuguese.

A consoante H não possui som no português do Brasil

Vim aqui para ajudar meu aluno Nick :-).

Eu sou brasileiro e amei a explicação.

doesn't "pena" means pity in Portuguese?

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This is a very helpful material for foreign students to study and learn Portuguese. Excellent! However, I would like to share some features of the Brazilian Portuguese language since I'm a native speaker. The affricate sounds, phonetically represented by 't' [tʃ] and 'd' [ʤ] before [e] or [i] are phonetic models for a "standard" Brazilian Portuguese which is used to study the language, but in several other regions 't' and 'd' are, respectively, [t] voiceless alveolar plosive and [d] voiced alveolar plosive in any case. For example, 'tomate' [tomatʃi] and 'bonde' [bonʤi, they sound [tomati] and [bondi]]. Other interesting feature is that 'nh' and 'lh' don't sound, respectively, exactly as [ɲ] and [ʎ] in Brazilian Portuguese, but as [n̠ʲ] and [l̠ʲ] The sound /ɲ/ in 'conhecer' [kon̠ʲesex] sounds a little bit softer than, for example, 'año' [aɲo] (Spanish) and 'montagna' [montaɲa] (Italian). The sound [ʎ] can sometimes sound different, as in 'alho' [al̠ʲu] instead of [aʎu]. If you compare to 'família' [famil̠ʲɐ], you can see that they sound the same, but they are written differently. But, in a general way, it's a great content. I find all the videos really useful for my studies! 👏👏

hey you all viewers pay atenttion to the "h" sound. because it is not a glottal voiceless fricative like in english. I think its a epiglotal voiceless fricative. (not the same shit) they both sound alike but they are not the same. pay attention to that and comment if you find info about it. great video by the way.

2:19 It is wrong.

Ugh it's Brazilian