Portuguese the language

Talk about anything but keep it polite and reasonably clean.
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Portuguese the language

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¿We drink the drink, but who amongst us speaks Portuguese the language? ¿And how well? Not I, for sure.
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Conky
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I can get around. Loads of basics learnt from a How to speak Portuguese tape and a few visits.
Not getting taxi's and going off the beaten track is fun if you can have limited communication. It was quite evident the locals responded to your clumsy efforts.
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Porto (whilst pointing at a particular bottle behind a bar)
Obrigado



Above is the full list of Portuguese words I use when visiting Portugal. :roll:
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Alex Bridgeman
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I can get by in a few languages - but Portuguese is not (yet) one of them.
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.

2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
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Derek,

What else could possibly matter except, where is the bathroom? :lol:

I can order food in a restaurant and ask for basic directions and usually understand the responsse and maybe a few phrases here and there. It would be great to learn and I am decent with languages, but Portuguese pronunciation is difficult and far moreso than Spanish, French and Italian.
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I can understand German conversations, get by in French, sound good in Italian and get beer in Spanish. Portuguese is a nightmare combination of near-Spanish words spoken in a Polish accent - I'm useless. The only thing that is worse is Dutch where I can be convinced to buy the World's worst sparkling wine because of a conversation between three Dutchmen - more on that story later.
Port is basically a red drink
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I speak basic Portuguese, I can order food and have some basic conversations about wine and vineyards, but that's about it.

I refuse to take any blame in the 'Tasmanian Sparkler Affair'.
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Ahh...the 'TSA'. Almost as big of a joke as the U.S.'s. What a bead, though; what a bead.
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My girlfriend is Brazilian... I have her do my bidding... :twisted:

I can name food, motorsport & football players; that's about it with few swears mixed in...
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