Name: 我給葡萄牙人的英語提示 (My English tips for Portuguese speakers)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:16:14.000Z
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Obrigado, all my Portuguese-speaking
friends out there.

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I'm going to teach you something
that maybe you've heard before.

But it's a little bit
difficult in English.

You are lucky, like other languages, for example,
Spanish and French, we have a lot of words

in English that are very similar in Portuguese
and English, so if you change the accent a

little, use your hands a lot, people will
probably be able to understand you, but sometimes

this is not the case, that's why we have
created these things called "false friends".

Now, false friends are words that you think
you can use because they sound almost the

same in English, but the meaning is completely
different, so it can lead to some mistakes.

Really? Come on. You're learning
a language, don't worry.

But I'm here to teach you how to correct
some mistakes that you might make.

And thanks to Hinata and William
for helping me out with this one.

So, false friends, they're not your
friends, they are your enemies.

Okay, so the first one-we're going
to start, yeah?-is: "cafeteria".

In your country, in Brazil, maybe in Portugal,
I don't know, a cafeteria is a coffee shop,

so it's a place where you can go and get a
delicious coffee, maybe get some delicious

Brazilian treats, like queijo de p�o, p�o
de queijo, mm-hmm, maybe some honey moons,

delicious, but in English, "cafeteria", the
exact same spelling, check it out: "cafeteria",

"cafeteria", uh-oh in English, a cafeteria,
it is not a coffee shop, it is actually a

In Canada sometimes there is a lunch room,
but all of the time in a school in Canada

children or students
go and eat together...

They can eat lunch, they can eat dinner in
one room, and we call this a cafeteria.

So, a cafeteria is a lunch room
or a common room for eating.

It's definitely not a coffee shop.
It's pretty terrible.

Coffee shops are more fun
than a lunch room I think.

The next one, in your country you can enjoy
a delicious "caf�", which means coffee for

you, and Brazilian coffee - woo, that stuff
gets you going in the morning. Cool.

But in English, a "caf�" is not a drink,
like a coffee, a caf� is a small restaurant

where you can buy coffee or sweets,
it's like a Portuguese bakery.

So, a "caf�" is a restaurant in English,
and "caf�" is not coffee in English.

You also have to be careful of
your pronunciation of this word.

We don't have to say: "coffeeee"-hi,
Vinnie-but you have to say: "coffee".

If you just say: "cough",
then that's not a good thing.

You don't want to go to a caf� and ask
for a cough, because then you'd be sick.

Next one, you guys use as toothpaste.
Right?

So "pasta", "pasta", "pasta", you guys know as a
paste, like a gel, kind of a semi-liquid material.

But we always use it as a food, a very
delicious Italian food called pasta.

You guys probably know that already
because you eat a lot of pasta maybe.

But in English this is
paste, pasta is the food.

The next word: "dente". Yeah? You're
brushing your dentes, there. Yeah? Okay.

So, "dente" in Portuguese means
tooth or teeth, I guess just one.

In English it doesn't mean
teeth, it means a dent.

To help you out with this word:
"a dent" is an indentation.

If you're driving your car and somebody hits
your car, just a minor accident, then you

A dent means an indentation or
it's pushed in in one area.

It's not completely broken, it's just
pushed in or there's an indentation.

It does sound like this word and the spelling
is very, very similar, so be careful of that

When you guys walk into a bar you go up to
the "balcao" and you order a delicious beer.

A "balcao" in Portuguese means a
counter in a bar, this is fun.

We actually call the
counter in a bar a bar.

So, if we walk into a bar or a pub or a nightclub,
and we go up to the counter, we call that

If you go into a restaurant somebody might
say to you: "Would you like to sit at the

And you're a little bit confused because sitting
at the bar might seem a little uncomfortable

But be careful, a "balcony" in English,
it's very similar to a terrace.

So, a "balcao" sounds like "balcony", but
a balcony in English is something that is

like an outside little portion of your house, a
"terrace" is another word we can use for it.

If you're going to the balcao,
you're not going to get a drink.

You're going to go outside
for some fresh air. Balcao.

Next one, this is a very common mistake
that I hear a lot, and it's kind of funny.

"Pretender", oh, let me check
my pronunciation, please.

"Pretender", when you talk about it in Portuguese
it means you intend to do something, you want

to do something or you
will do something.

But in English it sounds and looks very similar
to the word "pretend", the verb "to pretend".

This is almost an
opposite kind of meaning.

If you pretend to do something, you're not
actually doing it, you are using your imagination

and you're not at all
doing it in real life.

So, for example, I can
pretend I am a horse.