Portinglês: Navigating the Quirks of Portuguese-English Interchange
Saturday, November 4th, 2023 | Articles
Associated or Assossiated?
Organization or Organezation?
Found or fund?
The answer to these questions is encapsulated in one word: Portinglês, the problems of Portuguese-English and vice versa.
Although Portuguese people learn languages quite smoothly, there are mistakes they easily make when speaking English. In this episode of Palavras Cruzadas for Portuguese public radio station RTP, we find out with Dalila Carvalho, what words and expressions put Portuguese people in trouble: “th” noise, “nh” sound, and the so-called false friends.
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