Nana_Brazil

Imagine different situations in which you need to make certain questions:

QUEM É? = who is it? ( at the door/ on the phone)
COM QUEM ESTOU FALANDO / or QUEM FALA? = who am I speaking/talking to? / who speaks? (on the phone)
POSSO DEIXAR UM RECADO PARA ELE/ ELA? = may I leave him/ her a message?
QUE HORAS SÃO, POR FAVOR?= what time is it, please?
ONDE É O PONTO DE ÔNIBUS? = where is the bus stop?
ONDE EU PEGO/ or TOMO O ÔNIBUS PARA O CENTRO? = where can I get/ take the bus to go downtown?

ONDE FICA / or É ....= where is ....
a padaria= the bakery
o supermercado= the supermarket
o banco= the bank
a rodoviária= the bus station
a biblioteca municipal= the municipal library
o correio= the post office
o shopping center= the mall/ the shopping center
o banheiro/ o toilet= the restroom
a banca de jornais= the newsstand
a quitanda/ o verdureiro= the greengrocer`s
o cabeleireiro= the hairdresser
o museu= the museum
o cinema= the movie theater
a igreja= the church
a catedral= the cathedral
o açougue= the butcher`s
a lanchonete= the snackbar
a praça= the square
a rua Ipiranga= Ipiranga street
o centro (da cidade)= donwtown
a floricultura= the flowershop
o parque de diversões= the amusement park
a estação de metrô= subway station
a estação ferroviária= railway station
o ponto de taxi= the taxi stand
a delegacia de polícia= the police station
o hospital= the hospital
a costureira= the dressmaker
o alfaiate= =the tailor

pluiepoco

Dear Nana,
does every letter in Portuguese pronounce?
Does every s in the end of a word pronounce?
like días, tudos,...?
and many ES- before nouns, equivalent to S-before nouns, like espanha to spanish, estação to station.... Does the ES pronounce /es/?

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pluiepoco

QUEM É? = who is it? ( at the door/ on the phone) 谁呀？
COM QUEM ESTOU FALANDO / or QUEM FALA? = who am I speaking/talking to? / who speaks? (on the phone)您好，哪位？
POSSO DEIXAR UM RECADO PARA ELE/ ELA? = may I leave him/ her a message?你能替我捎个信儿吗？
QUE HORAS SÃO, POR FAVOR?= what time is it, please?请问，几点了？
ONDE É O PONTO DE ÔNIBUS? = where is the bus stop?有巴士站吗？
ONDE EU PEGO/ or TOMO O ÔNIBUS PARA O CENTRO? = where can I get/ take the bus to go downtown?哪儿有去市区的巴士？

ONDE FICA / or É ....= where is .... 。。。在哪里？
a padaria= the bakery面包店
o supermercado= the supermarket超市
o banco= the bank银行
a rodoviária= the bus station巴士站
a biblioteca municipal= the municipal library城市图书馆
o correio= the post office邮局
o shopping center= the mall/ the shopping center商场
o banheiro/ o toilet= the rest room洗手间、厕所
a banca de jornais= the newsstand报摊
a quitanda/ o verdureiro= the greengrocer`s蔬菜店
o cabeleireiro= the hairdresser理发店
o museu= the museum博物馆
o cinema= the movie theater电影院
a igreja= the church教堂
a catedral= the cathedral大教堂
o açougue= the butcher`s屠宰场
a lanchonete= the snackbar点心店、小吃店
a praça= the square广场
a rua Ipiranga= Ipiranga streetXX 大街
o centro (da cidade)= donwtown 市区
a floricultura= the flowershop鲜花店
o parque de diversões= the amusement park娱乐公园
a estação de metrô= subway station地铁站
a estação ferroviária= railway station火车站
o ponto de taxi= the taxi stand的士站
a delegacia de polícia= the police station派出所、警察局
o hospital= the hospital医院
a costureira= the dressmaker裁缝店,but not exist now
o alfaiate= =the tailor裁缝店,but not exist now

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Nana_Brazil

Well, most of them , yes. Let me give you egs:

1. While an american says SHOPPINg (does not almost pronounce G) we do..
a Brazilian who deos not know English well would say "SHOPINGUI " (pronouncing letter g) like you pronounce GUItar.
But different from English, the name OCTÁVIO, you hear a Brazilian saying.. OTÁVIO (no C pronunciation).

2. All lonely consonants are pronounced here like : tablet ( TABLEt) here people say (TABLETE) besides saying the lonelly consonant, a vowel is added lol..So a Brazilian always change a bit the way of how a foreign word is spelled.

3. Letter S in a great number (**as in the plural usage ) have to be spelled) problem is many times some people do not say it but it is not correct.
For eg.. some Brazilians say :[I]

NOSSA VOCÊ TEM UM OLHO TÃO LINDO[/i]!!! ( WOW YOU HAVE AN EYE SO BEAUTIFUL)- wrong - we must say NOSSA, VOCÊ TEM OS OLHOS TÃO LINDOS !! olhos = "eyes" in the plural.

MEU SAPATO ESTÁ MUITO APERTADO. (MY SHOE IS VERY TIGHT) - wrong "Meus sapatos estão tão apertados"= shoes"

S - like SPORT for eg.. we pronounce it a bit and depends on the region, the pronunciation is bigger. A carioca would say ISSSSSSSPORTI.



ABOUT DIAS.. yes we do say the letter S
BUT "TUDOS "IS NOT CORRECT .. there is no S for this word which is always in the singular form : TUDO
ES - yes we say it for eg: ESTAÇÃO we say it all. Some here say ISSHHHTAÇÃO and others : ESTAÇÃO


about others which we spell or not I will post everytime I`ll remember one ok?

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Yeahcarl

Here where I live if a word has a c or a p in the middle it is pronounced, but as most of portuguese words lost the c in the middle of the word, it is not usual to have some:
acto (Portugal) - ato (Brazil) = act
acção (Portugal) - ação (Brazil) = action
accionar (Portugal) - acionar (Brazil) = activate
adoptar (Portugal) - adotar (Brazil) = adopt
adopção (Portugal) - adoção (Brazil) = adoption
accionista (Portugal) - acionista (Brazil) = shareholder
baptismo (Portugal) - batismo (Brazil) = baptism
baptizar (Portugal) - batizar (Brazil) = baptize
correcto (Portugal) - correto (Brazil) = correct
correcção (Portugal) - correção (Brazil) = correction
director (Portugal) - diretor (Brazil) = director
óptimo (Portugal) - ótimo (Brazil) = great
optimismo (Portugal) - otimismo (Brazil) = optimism
facto (Portugal) - fato (Brazil) = fact

but there are some words who didn't lose this c or p:
autóctone
compacto
apto
inepto

pluiepoco

not only c or p is omitted, but also r in rr, like your example:
correcto --corecto
correcção -- coreção

but maybe the latter are not generally used, could you explain to me?

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Yeahcarl

Well, I've never seen or heard that r was omitted in any word in Portuguese, as there are several dialects, perhaps it happens in Portungo, which I'm learning , but I still don't know enough to tell you that.

Maybe you refer to accents, to the way of speaking , well it probably happens somewhere that you speak rr as just one, but in Brazil I've never heard it.

As far as I know, it doesn't exist. Sorry