5000 Words You Already Know | Practice Portuguese

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About lesson: Can you remember a time when you saw a new Portuguese word and thought to yourself, "hmmm, that sure looks a lot like a word in my own language!"
Rather than waiting years to slowly discover these words yourself over time, in this lesson we show you a set of simple rules you can use to quickly add thousands of Portuguese words to your vocabulary.
Note: We usually record audio-only, so we take a few minutes to loosen up to the camera! But if you can bear with us through the beginning, we promise the material will be worth it.
** CHAPTERS: **
What are Cognates? 3:04
- Sample Paragraph of Cognates 4:08
Falsos Cognates / "Falsos Amigos" 5:32
- Why Should We Focus on True Cognates Instead? 6:06
- Statistics 6:23
- Joel's Embarrassing "False Cognate" Fail! 6:59
What You Need to Remember When Looking At Cognate Groups 8:05
Quick Review of Parts of Speech 8:38
Cognate Groups:
-tion (1000 nouns) 9:23
-sion (nouns, # unknown) 10:29
-ly (1000 adverbs) 11:07
-al (700 adj) 12:00
-ic (500 adj + nouns) 13:03
-ity (400 nouns) 14:45
-ate (300 verbs + adj, nouns) 15:22
-able/ible (300 adj) 17:33
-ent (300 adj + nouns) 18:38
-ism (250 nouns) 20:25
-ist (250 nouns) 21:02
How to Use Cognates in a Real Conversation 22:14