Portuguese Language: 7 Tips to Learn Faster
Table of Contents Is it difficult to learn Portuguese Language on your own? When people are trying to learn Portuguese language on their own they watch several videos , follow different people on YouTube and download different apps on their cell phones. But, at the end, they still don’t chieve the desired result. If this is your case, or if you are just starting to learn Portuguese, pay attention to the 7 tips that will help you learn Portuguese language faster and more dynamically. Portuguese for beginners Free trial class Know more Tip 1 For Learning Portuguese: Set Goals! Although it seems kind of obvious, this tip, which is so important, is often not put into practice by people who want to learn Portuguese on their own. People just decide to study Portuguese, but they don’t plan how they are going to do it in the long and short term. And you, have you set your goals? If you haven’t already, take some time to think about your goals and objectives. You should think about big and small goals in a practical and objective way. 1. Metão (big goal): What is your goal in studying Portuguese? How soon do you want to reach this goal? Think about it, and preferably write it down somewhere. 2. Metinhas (small goals): What are you going to do during the week to reach your main goal? In my opinion this point is just as important as the first, or maybe even more important. This is where you set the days you will study, how much time you will dedicate to Portuguese and what resources you will use. For example: I will study every day for 30 minutes, watch at least one video in Portuguese and memorize 15 words. Try to diversify your study material We learn by what we see, hear and write. In my online store you will find free materials that will help you with this. There are videos, flashcards, PDFs and more. Everything to help you who want to learn Portuguese on your own. Click here access your free material now! Tip 2: Have Fun! One of the techniques used by world’s greatest polyglots is to learn through the means they enjoy: either reading a book or watching movies and television shows. That is, they seek to have fun while learning. This technique is important for two reasons: 1. Learn in context It makes them learn the content in context. Not just isolated information. And this is an important thing in language learning, because it helps you to intuitively understand the way that language “works”, its grammatical structures. For example: a person watches a documentary where a wave of black cats invades some city. And several times he hears this expression “gato preto” (black cat) during the video. In the future it will be easy for that person to translate “black cat” as “gato preto”, instead of “preto gato”. Attention: If you have questions and would like to learn more about how to use adjectives correctly in Portuguese I have prepared a lesson especially on this subject. Click here to learn now. Learning content in context also helps with the cognitive process, because what you’re reading, seeing or hearing resonates with your emotions. And what messes with our emotions tends to activate our memory more. For example, I remember I was watching a Chinese series on netflix “Princess Weiyong”, and there is a scene where the prince says to her: – 你，我，我，你，我们 (ni, wo, wo, ni, wo men). And it was a nice scene between them. And then when I really started to study Chinese and learned that “Ni” means you, and “wo”= me and “wo men” = us. I immediately remembered that scene of the prince talking to her and had to go over there to review the scene. And now I was really understanding what those words meant. I loved that! Which brings us to point number 2. 2. Have fun x memorization When we have fun and learn new things through interesting content. It not only brings motivation to continue learning but also helps in memorizing the content. Tip 3: Learn Actively Try to have an active learning. Studies indicate that studying a little every day is more efficient than studying a lot for just one day. And how long should you study? Well, that depends on how much time you have for it, right? Between 30 minutes to an hour would be good. Particularly I try to study at least 30 minutes of Chinese a day. But if I don’t have time or I’m tired, I only study 15 or 20 minutes, because a little is better than nothing. I also think it’s interesting to diversify this study, so it doesn’t get boring. So there are days I just watch the videos, other days I take more time to do the exercises and sometimes I just want to focus on learning new vocabulary. Tips 1 and 2 to learn the Portuguese language faster are linked to what experts call “input”, that is, the knowledge that reaches your brain. This phase is very important, but the second phase is equally important, the “output”. “output” refers to putting out acquired learning. Tips 3 and 4 are linked to it. Tip 4: Speak Up! Repeating out loud what you are wanting to learn is very important in the learning process. This is because the mechanisms our brains uses to understand content and to speak are different. Also if you have already trained yourself to speak a word or phrase it will be much easier to speak that word or phrase in a real situation with a native. Speaking will also help you memorize the content you want to learn and also improve your pronunciation. Because when we learn a new language, we need to learn to articulate our speech in a different way, as there are often sounds in that language that don’t exist in ours. For example, in French we have the sound of [ü], which is a mixture of “i” and “u”. This sound also exists in Chinese, but in Portuguese we
