Aprender Portugués - Clases de Portugués 1-2 - Summary

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The text is a transcript of two Portuguese classes for Spanish speakers. The first class introduces the Portuguese alphabet, the teacher's background, the reasons to learn Portuguese, and the countries where it is spoken. The second class explains the vowels, the accents, and the articles in Portuguese, with examples of words and sentences. The text also invites the listeners to follow the classes on social media and to register on a page.

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1. The text is a transcript of a Portuguese class for Hindi speakers.
2. The teacher's name is Joel Alejandro Cala and he has been studying Portuguese for 10 years.
3. Portuguese is the fifth most spoken language in the world and it is spoken in 8 countries as the first official language.
4. The Portuguese alphabet has 26 letters, including 3 that are imported from English: k, y and w.
5. The Portuguese vowels have different pronunciations depending on their position, accent and context.
6. The Portuguese accents are acute, circumflex, tilde and grave, and they indicate the stress, openness, nasality and contraction of the vowels.
7. The Portuguese articles are definite (a, as, o, os) and indefinite (um, uma, uns, umas) and they agree with the gender and number of the nouns.
8. Some Portuguese words have different genders than their Spanish counterparts, such as árvore (tree) which is feminine in Portuguese and masculine in Spanish.
9. The next Portuguese class will cover the consonants.