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Lesson 270: Oral and nasal diphthongs

In this lesson you are going to learn how to pronounce oral and nasal diphthongs in Brazilian Portuguese

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Category: Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Mar. 4, 2010  

Lesson 264: As vogais nasais — A família brasileira

In this lesson you will learn how to pronounce nasal vowels. This will help you not to mispronounce things meaning then a different thing from what you have in mind.
Also you will learn about the structure of brazilian families.

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Category: Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Feb. 13, 2010  

Lesson 261: aspectos da sociedade brasileira — a pronúncia da letra L

In this lesson you will learn how to pronounce the letter L in any given position in a word and also will learn about foreign culture in Brazil

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Category: Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Feb. 8, 2010  

Lesson 258: The market stalls and palatalization of ti and di

In this lesson you will recognize different ways of pronouncing the letters t and d before vowels and will also know some more of our culture about feiras.

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Category: Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Feb. 2, 2010  

Lesson 250: Pronunciation of words — The Brazilian R

In this lesson you will learn how to pronounce the Brazilian R, beginning words, in the middle and in the end of words; and you will also learn about the Brazilian entrance exam called vestibular, practicing this sounds in a real cultural setting

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Category: Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Dec. 9, 2009  

Lesson 237: Vowel sounds

In this lessons you will learn how to pronounce the vowel sounds smoothly.

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Category: Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Nov. 14, 2009  

Lesson 229: Pronunciation of the sounds A, B and C

In this lesson we will improve your pronunciation to make you sound as natural as possible.

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Category: Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Nov. 6, 2009  

Lesson 223: The importance of the pronunciation

In this lesson you will learn important things that will help you to pronounce things nice and slowly in Portuguese.

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Category: Advanced, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Nov. 6, 2009  

Lesson 184: Final “R” pronunciation in infinitives

In this lesson you will learn how Brazilians pronounce the final “R” in infinitives.

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Category: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Nov. 5, 2009  

Lesson 151: The vowels

In this lesson we are going to talk about vowels contrasting similar sounds in English.

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Category: Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate, Lessons, Pronunciation   |   Published: Oct. 25, 2009