Ah, I think many Portuguese students learning English fall for the "constipação" one as well. It was always an awkward moment when the English teachers didn't speak Portuguese and had no idea it was simply a false friend. 😅
There are many false friends between Spanish and Portuguese. For example the word "salsa" (parsley) in Spanish means "sauce" (molho in Portuguese). Also the word "espantado": in Portuguese it has a positive connotation whilst in Spanish it means scared, ashamed or appalled. As for my experience, I've used many of them, for example, at a fish market in Portugal I asked the clerk to give me some fish and I asked him to clean it. He told me "Sim, vou tirar as escamas do peixe". I wasn't very experienced at the time, so I only heard "tirar... peixe" (to throw away in Spanish) and I was very confused.
It's not really a false friend example but I find it pretty funny. One time I say to a non-portuguese friend I invited over to my place "Se quiseres podes descalçar-te" (which means "you can remove your shoes"). She pauses and looks at me completely surprised: "I'm sorry, what?!". She thought that I meant "You can take your pants off" because pants in portuguese is "calças", but the verbs "calçar" or "descalçar" only apply to putting on or removing shoes, respectively. A bit of an awkward moment there but we laughed so much after 🤣
I LAUGHED SO MUCH READING THIS! Hahaha I never thought of that. But I do find the fact that there are verbs for take your shoes on an off funny, I always forget to use them. Thank you for sharing Pedro
Hi from Tunisia. I gave myself a challenge to learn Portuguese in 1 week and I never learned a language so easily. For the record I speak Arabic, French , English, Spanish, Italian , Russian. (I'm only 16) I just wanted to point out that these false friends have the same meaning as in French. Thanks a lot for helping me with this elegant language.
We use the word "exibição" as a "public show" of some kind. "O filme está agora em exibição nos cinemas" means "the movie is now playing in theatres" for example. "Exibicionista" means "show-off", etc.
Great content. As a portuguese "Posso experimentar o gelado?" sounds a bit unnatural. I think most people would say "Posso provar o gelado?". "Posso experimentar?" sounds more natural in other contexts, like a clothing shop.
Another great lesson, thanks a lot. Related to this, what about a session on useful Portuguese words that don’t really have an equivalent in English? I was brought up in Greece and we used, and still use, lots of Greek words in our English since they get the precise meaning across better. The closest I can think of in Portuguese is when my step-daughters are telling my daughters to budge up - on the sofa, say, or in the car - and they say, in English, “come on, encostate!” When my kids were small we used - in English as well as Portuguese - tens “doi-doi?” and dar “tão-tão” , the latter being what they would do to the naughty table corner that had hurt them.
There was a famous incident with a former portuguese minister, who arrived late at an event and started his speech by saying "Sorry, for beeing retarded." Muitos parabéns pelo canal!
Great lesson. Additives to food...aditivos...In Canada, we say that preservatives have been added to the food...it would be a mistake to say in Portuguese that "preservativos" have been added to the food...that will definitely cause a stir and cause people to lose their appetites. You will certainly turn red with embarrassment when you get this one wrong.
The English word exit comes from the Latin word exitus which means, you guessed it, exit. The Portuguese and Spamish word exito which means success, is intended to mean what comes out of something.
How the hell have you such a perfect accent in european portuguese? It is incredible! I have never met someone with such a good british accent / portuguese accent (and I have british family leaving in Portugal for a longe time!)
This is why I thank God, I learnt Spanish before learning Portuguese but now I have to differentiate between the Spanish, English and Portuguese false friends. Just got to B2 in French and now I have to add that to the list of false friends hahahaha.
Yay one of my suggestions!! (And of many others too I'm sure hah). Embarassing cases with me? Oh yes. Using atualmente to mean "actually" when it means "currently" 🙈🙆🏻♂️
I remember when I first came to live in Portugal from Australia (years ago) and I was talking to a friend and I wanted to say " I got a letter from my family in Australia" and I translated it to "Recebi uma letra da minha família na Austrália". LOL. Not exactly a False Friend cause "Letter" can mean "Letra", but not in this context.
Very useful for non-natives, congrats. One common false friend in the opposite direction is when Portuguese people want to translate the portuguese word "resumo" and say "resume", when in fact they should say "summary", for example. People from other nationalities get really confused when they hear a Portuguese saying something like "so, in resume, this is what I mean...".
I love hearing them the other way around! Also useful for preposition and verb used eg. Making a paty or making a question... reminds us we should use fazer in Portuguese!
Sensível, at least in brazilian portuguese, can also mean sensible depending on the context. However, I can understand how It can be measleading to people learning the language. I had my fair share of problems with false friends when I was learning English.
While "pretender" and "particular" are correctly used as your examples, I do know I have used those words as well in the sense of the false friend, so watch out. "Pretender" has many uses, one of which is also "to fake/pretend", granted it is more uncommon. "particular" is also a synonym to "específico" which is basically the same as "particular" in English. So while listening one shouldn't assume outright that's what they mean, I, as a native Portuguese, would not misunderstand should they be used in those "false friend" contexts whatsoever.
Headed out to Portugal from the states this weekend. I found your videos very helpful! I made some notes so hopefully they will help me be polite and engage the local people abit. Thank you! Do many people speak english as a second language?
Olá Liz! Muito obrigada pelo vídeo! O inglês não é a minha língua materna, então para mim as vezes é difícil de distinguir palavras como "exhibition" e "exposition", no alemão ambas podem ser "eine Messe, eine Ausstellung", então para mim é mas ou menos o mesmo. Talvez também podes explicar coisas como isso nos próximos vídeos! Muito obrigada!
A maior parte das palavras tem os dois significados, por vezes no inglês, por vezes no português, por vezes nos dois. Em muitos casos é mais uma diferença na frequência do uso do que em diferenças de significados absolutas.
I have a friend that always says "Let's combine a coffee!!!" como combinar tomar um café 😂. Muitos sucessos para o teu canal. Eu lembro-me de ti quando fazias Erasmus em Coimbra 🙂
English heavily uses and relies on prefixes and suffixes. Does Portuguese use them as well? That would make it all the more odd for 'Pre'tend to mean 'In'tend.
Friend in Portugal was returning home after a couple decades. She was describing the state of food and the chemicals used in it. Preservatives (she translated to preservitivos). Doesn't mean the same thing in Portuguese, and her family still remembers, to much hilarity.
Hahahahaaaaa yes. A friend of mine in Brazil wanted to say she liked the little t shirt she was given at a conference (she was Mexican) and translated it to "camisinha", which also does not work in Brazil for the same reason! Maybe i should do an X rated edition haha
I remember trying to complain about all preservatives in Spanish yoghurt, to the same effect. Interesting that if are a native English speaker and you have previously learnt Spanish, you will have already stumbled through 90% of these awkward situations the first time round
Muito obrigado, really great resources for my beginner level. On your site do you recommend European Portuguese textbooks: grammar, verb conjugation, dictionary?
Hi Ian! I've never found books I'm crazy about, they are all pretty dry. I use Portuguese An Essential Grammar as my reference book. Most schools here use the Gramática Ativa series to teach. Dictionary you want to use linguee.com. If you are a beginner you should apply for my online program! Go to www.talkthestreets.com/pro to apply.
Is there a channel you'd recommend for Spanish speakers? The false friends are so different and learning needs so different than when learning from English, I find. But haven't found a good one like yours for Spanish speakers. Any help appreciated.
Eventually/eventualmente, library/ livraria, college/ colégio. Congratulations! Your pronunciation of european Portuguese is almost perfect. Only your "ão" can be bettered 🙂, but I know it is a difficult articulation together with ãe and õe..
Oficina is the place where you take your car to repair, but you also can use to talk about a painting office or (oficina de dança) a place where you go to have dancing classes, but is more formal and 99% Will be used to talk about car repairs. repairs means conSerto and concert is conCerto, and in Brazil we use (Show) instead concerto. Concerto in Brazil we use just to talk about classic music or some kind of Very formal concert. Would be (tomorrow there is Adele's show) amanhã tem show da Adele. And Concerto (tomorrow there is Pavarotti's Concert. Amanhã tem Concerto do Pavarotti.
Tive um problema com o pretender...há uma música cujo o refrão é I'm a pretender...deixava me confusa... Mas ele pretendia a quê... até me informarem que era um fingidor....😂
I was talking to couple of young ladies about food and cooking then started taking about making homemade jam. And I said " Eu não uso conservativo" !!! and the room just went silence!
that's a good one. I heard recently a similar situation, from a youtuber that was reading in English and translating to Portuguese at the same time. He said "preservativos" instead of "conservantes".
The biggest 'false friend' occured whilst reading aloud the ingredients of a particular foodstuff. I stupidly attempted to translate it from English whilst speaking with a Portuguese person. Yes you've guessed it; I used the word preservative instead of conservante. Never again !
I'm an interpreter PT/ENG and I was interpreting for a medical assessment. At some point the doctor asked the patient if she had fever, shortness of breath or any symptoms of a cold. So I asked: tem febre, falta de ar ou sintomas de constipação? The doctor started YELLING at me, saying "interpreter, I didn't ask if she was constipated!" I don't think she believed me when I explained about this word being a false friend. *shrug*
This video is about european portuguese (it's in the title) and not brazilian portuguese. Here in Portugal the right word is gelado and not sorvete. The word for Icy" is also "gelado".
In portuguese the word "gelado" means ice cream: "Queria um gelado por favor!" (noun), but it also means frozen: "O rio está gelado!" (adjective). "Sorvete" is an ice cream made of water and fruit. 👍
@@Confetisdesigns Ok. But don't ask for a "gelado" in Brazil. People won't understand that you're asking for an ice cream. As a wrote above, 210 million Brazilians use the word "sorvete" for ice cream. I know, this video is about Portugal Portuguese (spoken by 10 million people). So sorry if the word "sorvete" upset you.
@@TalktheStreets - And to confuse our foreign friends even more, let's not forget that "exposição" also means exposure. You should've also mentioned it in the video because now that we're in the Summer, they might go to a portuguese beach and read a warning about "exposição solar" and think that's some kind of exhibition about the Sun. :D
@@ogator8642 Yes, I think so. But for me, the fascinating thing is that "academia" can refer to a place for physical education, and "ginasio" to a place for intellectual education - just the opposite to English.
Attention learners, this isn't right. In Portugal "academia" has the same meaning as the English word "academy", you LEARN things. And "gymnasium" is "ginásio", same as English too. Also @mark br isn't right, you NEVER say "ginásio" as "secondary school", instead you say "escola secundária". You have a "gym" at your school where have PE and that's it.
Menina quando olho pirata você vejo uma mulher brasileira, quando você começa a falar inglês eu tomo um susto sempre kkkkkkkkk P.s. " poxtei" essa mensagem em português "di"propósito porque sou carioca rs
नमस्कार लिज शर्मा जी, में श्री ओम शर्मा दिल्ली, भारत से हूं, मैने हाल ही में पुरुतगाली भाषा सीखना प्रारंभ किया है, कृपया अंग्रेजी माध्यम से इस भाषा को सीखने की कोई अच्छी पुस्तक का नाम बताइए
Horrible but also hilarious example. 30 years ago when my husband invited me to his familie's home. I was nervous and new to his language. Later that evening we were all having coffee in the den, I softly said to my fiance', where is my Kiss? After an hour of mass hysteria, I discovered there is a slang word similar to this which in my poor accent I inadvertantly had said. So instead I said, where is my...vajayjay . Awful experiences can sometime be funny memories. In time🤣
I think no one mentioned proposion and proposal, meanining proposta de negócio and declaração ou pedido de casamento (wedding proposal). Very common mistake.
I dont know if I should be writing this on here but I once said to my fiancé's mum "bom dia boceta" when I meant to say "bonita".... omg her face 🤣🤣🤣🤣 desculpe mãe 😬😬😬😬😬
Another false friends: i) "atual" which means "current" (and not "actual"). "Actual" translates to "real", "verdadeiro" in Portuguese. ii) "eventual" which means "casual", "probable" (and not "eventual"). "Eventual" translates to "final", "último", "derradeiro" in Portuguese.
Hi Liz, I don't know where you learned your Portuguese but you are over emphasizing the sh sounds in the s. I'm native Portuguese speaker and I would never never use the sh in the word costume and many others like it.
Have you ever accidentally used a false friend in Portuguese??
Ah, I think many Portuguese students learning English fall for the "constipação" one as well. It was always an awkward moment when the English teachers didn't speak Portuguese and had no idea it was simply a false friend. 😅
There are many false friends between Spanish and Portuguese. For example the word "salsa" (parsley) in Spanish means "sauce" (molho in Portuguese). Also the word "espantado": in Portuguese it has a positive connotation whilst in Spanish it means scared, ashamed or appalled. As for my experience, I've used many of them, for example, at a fish market in Portugal I asked the clerk to give me some fish and I asked him to clean it. He told me "Sim, vou tirar as escamas do peixe". I wasn't very experienced at the time, so I only heard "tirar... peixe" (to throw away in Spanish) and I was very confused.
I've used 'Realmente?' instead of 'A sério?' Generally my intention has been understood and it only caused mild amusement.
I have. "Fica" is used very often in Portuguese, but in Italian it means something very different..
Exposition is a sort of synonym of Exhibition though ? - it is just not really used in that sense (?)
It's not really a false friend example but I find it pretty funny. One time I say to a non-portuguese friend I invited over to my place "Se quiseres podes descalçar-te" (which means "you can remove your shoes"). She pauses and looks at me completely surprised: "I'm sorry, what?!". She thought that I meant "You can take your pants off" because pants in portuguese is "calças", but the verbs "calçar" or "descalçar" only apply to putting on or removing shoes, respectively. A bit of an awkward moment there but we laughed so much after 🤣
I LAUGHED SO MUCH READING THIS! Hahaha I never thought of that. But I do find the fact that there are verbs for take your shoes on an off funny, I always forget to use them. Thank you for sharing Pedro
you can apply "descalçar" also for socks (and alike), gloves, wedges and paving stones.
:-D
You can also say "tirar" because this one goes with everything: shoes, clothes, etc.
This is one lesson where Spanish helps a lot, as most of these are false friends in Spanish too. Good job again Liz, keep up the great work!
Thank you! 😃
Hi from Tunisia.
I gave myself a challenge to learn Portuguese in 1 week and I never learned a language so easily. For the record I speak Arabic, French , English, Spanish, Italian , Russian. (I'm only 16)
I just wanted to point out that these false friends have the same meaning as in French. Thanks a lot for helping me with this elegant language.
Very helpful! Another one I've found is compromise. A Portuguese friend kept saying "no compromise" but he meant "no commitments."
Great example!
We use the word "exibição" as a "public show" of some kind. "O filme está agora em exibição nos cinemas" means "the movie is now playing in theatres" for example. "Exibicionista" means "show-off", etc.
Waaaw the teacher is very smart and confidential..we will never going back..front always
Great content. As a portuguese "Posso experimentar o gelado?" sounds a bit unnatural. I think most people would say "Posso provar o gelado?". "Posso experimentar?" sounds more natural in other contexts, like a clothing shop.
Another great lesson, thanks a lot. Related to this, what about a session on useful Portuguese words that don’t really have an equivalent in English? I was brought up in Greece and we used, and still use, lots of Greek words in our English since they get the precise meaning across better. The closest I can think of in Portuguese is when my step-daughters are telling my daughters to budge up - on the sofa, say, or in the car - and they say, in English, “come on, encostate!”
When my kids were small we used - in English as well as Portuguese - tens “doi-doi?” and dar “tão-tão” , the latter being what they would do to the naughty table corner that had hurt them.
There was a famous incident with a former portuguese minister, who arrived late at an event and started his speech by saying "Sorry, for beeing retarded." Muitos parabéns pelo canal!
Por tua causa consigo falar mais ou menos bem português! Nunca pensei que eu falaria uma língua que nunca ouvi na minha vida ! Obrigado mt :)
'Muito obrigado!' or 'Obrigado, muito mesmo!' ;)
Wow! Você escreve tão bem dado que nunca ouviu a língua em outras situações. Parabéns!
Your videos are definitely one of the best there are! Keep it up! 💜
Thank you so much!!
O objetivo é aula de português, mas, pra mim está sendo uma excelente aula de inglês.
particular pode ter significado igual ao inglês, como em "nada em particular", mas faz bem em ressalvar as diferenças possíveis
In Spanish, "oficina" is an office and "escritorio" is a desk.
True! In Portuguese a desk is a "secretária" which is also confusing!
@@TalktheStreets or you can use "escrivaninha"
Great lesson.
Additives to food...aditivos...In Canada, we say that preservatives have been added to the food...it would be a mistake to say in Portuguese that "preservativos" have been added to the food...that will definitely cause a stir and cause people to lose their appetites. You will certainly turn red with embarrassment when you get this one wrong.
The English word exit comes from the Latin word exitus which means, you guessed it, exit.
The Portuguese and Spamish word exito which means success, is intended to mean what comes out of something.
How the hell have you such a perfect accent in european portuguese? It is incredible! I have never met someone with such a good british accent / portuguese accent (and I have british family leaving in Portugal for a longe time!)
This is exactly the conversation I had with my wife about Liz, amazing! Her Brazilian accent too
Very handy - thanks!
This is why I thank God, I learnt Spanish before learning Portuguese but now I have to differentiate between the Spanish, English and Portuguese false friends. Just got to B2 in French and now I have to add that to the list of false friends hahahaha.
Dead straightforward, to the point, and packed with information! ❤️
glad you enjoyed this video!!
Yay one of my suggestions!! (And of many others too I'm sure hah).
Embarassing cases with me? Oh yes. Using atualmente to mean "actually" when it means "currently" 🙈🙆🏻♂️
Muito Obrigado! gostei muito.
I remember when I first came to live in Portugal from Australia (years ago) and I was talking to a friend and I wanted to say " I got a letter from my family in Australia" and I translated it to "Recebi uma letra da minha família na Austrália". LOL. Not exactly a False Friend cause "Letter" can mean "Letra", but not in this context.
For a german native that speaks english these friends aren't that false :) it actually helps to know more languages yay
Very useful for non-natives, congrats. One common false friend in the opposite direction is when Portuguese people want to translate the portuguese word "resumo" and say "resume", when in fact they should say "summary", for example. People from other nationalities get really confused when they hear a Portuguese saying something like "so, in resume, this is what I mean...".
I love hearing them the other way around! Also useful for preposition and verb used eg. Making a paty or making a question... reminds us we should use fazer in Portuguese!
Liz.. you are amazing.. great 👍🏻 lesson
Thanks for watching!
I love your lessons Obrigada
Sensível, at least in brazilian portuguese, can also mean sensible depending on the context.
However, I can understand how It can be measleading to people learning the language.
I had my fair share of problems with false friends when I was learning English.
Sensível = SENSITIVE, mas SENSIBLE = delicado, suceptível
Thank you, though strangely (well not really) I knew 90% as, of course, similar to Italian, which I speak.
While "pretender" and "particular" are correctly used as your examples, I do know I have used those words as well in the sense of the false friend, so watch out. "Pretender" has many uses, one of which is also "to fake/pretend", granted it is more uncommon. "particular" is also a synonym to "específico" which is basically the same as "particular" in English. So while listening one shouldn't assume outright that's what they mean, I, as a native Portuguese, would not misunderstand should they be used in those "false friend" contexts whatsoever.
Headed out to Portugal from the states this weekend. I found your videos very helpful! I made some notes so hopefully they will help me be polite and engage the local people abit. Thank you! Do many people speak english as a second language?
Glad to help! Yes lots of people speak English but I hope you have a go with some Portuguese!
Olá Liz!
Muito obrigada pelo vídeo! O inglês não é a minha língua materna, então para mim as vezes é difícil de distinguir palavras como "exhibition" e "exposition", no alemão ambas podem ser "eine Messe, eine Ausstellung", então para mim é mas ou menos o mesmo. Talvez também podes explicar coisas como isso nos próximos vídeos! Muito obrigada!
Muito Obrigada . gostei muito.
A maior parte das palavras tem os dois significados, por vezes no inglês, por vezes no português, por vezes nos dois. Em muitos casos é mais uma diferença na frequência do uso do que em diferenças de significados absolutas.
I have a friend that always says "Let's combine a coffee!!!" como combinar tomar um café 😂.
Muitos sucessos para o teu canal. Eu lembro-me de ti quando fazias Erasmus em Coimbra 🙂
Obrigada pelo bom trabalho mais uma vez, Liz 🌸Ps. Atenção na pronúncia da palavra êxito = ˈɐjzitu
you are awesome and i love your way of teaching, love your channel
Thank you so much!
Muy linda y hermosa ❤️ saludos desde Barinas, Venezuela. Abraço
English heavily uses and relies on prefixes and suffixes. Does Portuguese use them as well? That would make it all the more odd for 'Pre'tend to mean 'In'tend.
Friend in Portugal was returning home after a couple decades. She was describing the state of food and the chemicals used in it. Preservatives (she translated to preservitivos). Doesn't mean the same thing in Portuguese, and her family still remembers, to much hilarity.
Hahahahaaaaa yes. A friend of mine in Brazil wanted to say she liked the little t shirt she was given at a conference (she was Mexican) and translated it to "camisinha", which also does not work in Brazil for the same reason! Maybe i should do an X rated edition haha
I remember trying to complain about all preservatives in Spanish yoghurt, to the same effect.
Interesting that if are a native English speaker and you have previously learnt Spanish, you will have already stumbled through 90% of these awkward situations the first time round
Obrigado Liz!
aulas particulares pode ser aulas privadas também
Experimentar também tem o sentido de "experiment", só é de forma geral utilizada em conjunção com outras coisas "vou experimentar com esse metal hoje"
A mesma coisa com particular e manifestação tem sentidos a mais que são diferentes do inglês mas pode ser usados no mesmo sentido também
Curioso que êxito e sucesso existe na língua portuguesa
Já utilizei a expressão "recurring" como se fosse sinónimo de "recorrendo". Em vez de "recurring" deveria ter usado a expressão "using"...
Muito obrigado, really great resources for my beginner level. On your site do you recommend European Portuguese textbooks: grammar, verb conjugation, dictionary?
Hi Ian! I've never found books I'm crazy about, they are all pretty dry. I use Portuguese An Essential Grammar as my reference book. Most schools here use the Gramática Ativa series to teach. Dictionary you want to use linguee.com. If you are a beginner you should apply for my online program! Go to www.talkthestreets.com/pro to apply.
EXPOSIÇÃO pode ser também EXPOSURE. Exemplo: "foi muita exposição de sua intimidade" = "it was too much his/her intimity exposure/invasion"
i’m a bit late to this video! but the word “pasta” 😭 it’s not food, massa is what the english call pasta, but in portuguese it’s a folder!
good one!
"Massa" can also be slang for money... :)
@@joaquimsardao1607 That also works in English. Dough is slang for money.
we also have "pasta de dentes"
Muito obrigada ! Tem uma voz muito agradável
Hehehehe obrigada
Is there a channel you'd recommend for Spanish speakers? The false friends are so different and learning needs so different than when learning from English, I find. But haven't found a good one like yours for Spanish speakers. Any help appreciated.
My favourite is one I once heard: "Marquei um apontamento no médico" as in "I booked an appointment at the doctor's" 😂
Exposição pode ser muita coisa. Não sei porque mas eu gosto de ver os vídeos. 😅😅
Eventually/eventualmente, library/ livraria, college/ colégio. Congratulations! Your pronunciation of european Portuguese is almost perfect. Only your "ão" can be bettered 🙂, but I know it is a difficult articulation together with ãe and õe..
Oficina is the place where you take your car to repair, but you also can use to talk about a painting office or (oficina de dança) a place where you go to have dancing classes, but is more formal and 99% Will be used to talk about car repairs. repairs means conSerto and concert is conCerto, and in Brazil we use (Show) instead concerto. Concerto in Brazil we use just to talk about classic music or some kind of Very formal concert. Would be (tomorrow there is Adele's show) amanhã tem show da Adele. And Concerto (tomorrow there is Pavarotti's Concert. Amanhã tem Concerto do Pavarotti.
we also use show in Portugal but its informal language.
@@skurinski serio? Não sabia. Sempre falo concerto em Lisboa porque penso que não vão entender KKK.
muito bom !!!
Tive um problema com o pretender...há uma música cujo o refrão é I'm a pretender...deixava me confusa... Mas ele pretendia a quê... até me informarem que era um fingidor....😂
amazing video mam
Neste momento aprendi "disparar", que é quase o contrário de “disappear”.
No Brasil, quando estamos resfriado, usamos mais a palavra "congestionado". Ex. Meu nariz está congestionado hoje. Pelo menos onde eu moro, RJ.
Well done! That was perfect!! I ve just subscribeed . I am Portuguese but my girlfriend is not, therefore I am Sharing as well ....
So glad it will be useful!
I was talking to couple of young ladies about food and cooking then started taking about making homemade jam. And I said " Eu não uso conservativo" !!! and the room just went silence!
No way 😂😂😂😂😂 “doce” was the word you were looking for!
that's a good one. I heard recently a similar situation, from a youtuber that was reading in English and translating to Portuguese at the same time. He said "preservativos" instead of "conservantes".
Pt-Br all the same except number 14. This word is not much used and normally referring to stomach or intestintine like in english
The biggest 'false friend' occured whilst reading aloud the ingredients of a particular foodstuff. I stupidly attempted to translate it from English whilst speaking with a Portuguese person. Yes you've guessed it; I used the word preservative instead of conservante. Never again !
😂
I'm an interpreter PT/ENG and I was interpreting for a medical assessment. At some point the doctor asked the patient if she had fever, shortness of breath or any symptoms of a cold. So I asked: tem febre, falta de ar ou sintomas de constipação?
The doctor started YELLING at me, saying "interpreter, I didn't ask if she was constipated!"
I don't think she believed me when I explained about this word being a false friend. *shrug*
Ha! It is so annoying as an interpreter to be mistrusted!
@@TalktheStreets I KNOW! it hurts my feelings 💔 and it also hurts my feelings when they ask for me and expect me to speak Spanish 🤣
@@barbaramotapinto267 *expect me to speak Spanish*
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Hey guys if you want to learn Brazilian portuguese answer me here I'm learning english and we can help each other!
Ice cream is "sorvete" (not "gelado") in Brazil. "Gelado" means "chilly", "icy" in Brazilian Portuguese.
This video is about european portuguese (it's in the title) and not brazilian portuguese. Here in Portugal the right word is gelado and not sorvete. The word for Icy" is also "gelado".
In portuguese the word "gelado" means ice cream: "Queria um gelado por favor!" (noun), but it also means frozen: "O rio está gelado!" (adjective).
"Sorvete" is an ice cream made of water and fruit. 👍
@@Confetisdesigns Ok. But don't ask for a "gelado" in Brazil. People won't understand that you're asking for an ice cream. As a wrote above, 210 million Brazilians use the word "sorvete" for ice cream. I know, this video is about Portugal Portuguese (spoken by 10 million people). So sorry if the word "sorvete" upset you.
Another encounter with a false friend.
Reunião. Not reunion, but 'meeting'
Ahhhh true! Though a meeting is a type of reunion... you can remember it like that!
3:19 - Don't exposition and exhibition mean the same in English?
Only a certain type of very large exhibition can be called an expo in English. Usually it means describing the setting of a story.
@@TalktheStreets - And to confuse our foreign friends even more, let's not forget that "exposição" also means exposure. You should've also mentioned it in the video because now that we're in the Summer, they might go to a portuguese beach and read a warning about "exposição solar" and think that's some kind of exhibition about the Sun. :D
Can you have your examples written too?
Sure, there are in a blog post: talkthestreets.com/15-false-friends-in-portuguese/
Como sempre, eu aprendo inglês em vez de português, porque eu sou angolano, e vivo em luanda....
The false friend that most often comes to mind to me is fixe. Blub blub
Thata a good one!
But this is slang
Rehan jung
você não é mesmo português? não é possivel, não falhou um ponto ou acento, parabéns.
qual é a sua nacionalidade?
Inglesa!
What about academia? It looks like a place to learn things but for some reason it means gymnasium.
True!!
and conversely, "ginásio" can mean "secondary school"!
@@markbr5898 I have been reading more. Isn't "academia" meaning "gymnasium" used more in Brazil and "ginasio" used more in Portugal?
@@ogator8642 Yes, I think so. But for me, the fascinating thing is that "academia" can refer to a place for physical education, and "ginasio" to a place for intellectual education - just the opposite to English.
Attention learners, this isn't right. In Portugal "academia" has the same meaning as the English word "academy", you LEARN things. And "gymnasium" is "ginásio", same as English too. Also @mark br isn't right, you NEVER say "ginásio" as "secondary school", instead you say "escola secundária". You have a "gym" at your school where have PE and that's it.
preservative: conservante
condom: preservativo
good ones!
in Brasil condom = camisinha
camisinha = small shirt
Thats is also true in French
Menina quando olho pirata você vejo uma mulher brasileira, quando você começa a falar inglês eu tomo um susto sempre kkkkkkkkk
P.s. " poxtei" essa mensagem em português "di"propósito porque sou carioca rs
नमस्कार लिज शर्मा जी, में श्री ओम शर्मा दिल्ली, भारत से हूं, मैने हाल ही में पुरुतगाली भाषा सीखना प्रारंभ किया है, कृपया अंग्रेजी माध्यम से इस भाषा को सीखने की कोई अच्छी पुस्तक का नाम बताइए
Horrible but also hilarious example. 30 years ago when my husband invited me to his familie's home. I was nervous and new to his language. Later that evening we were all having coffee in the den, I softly said to my fiance', where is my Kiss? After an hour of mass hysteria, I discovered there is a slang word similar to this which in my poor accent I inadvertantly had said. So instead I said, where is my...vajayjay . Awful experiences can sometime be funny memories. In time🤣
Aahhhhhahaha! Yes you will only make mistakes like that once..!!
Acho muito dahora ver gringos querendo aprender o Português ahahuahushus
Oficina gabinet escritório
Costume, like a custom.
I think no one mentioned proposion and proposal, meanining proposta de negócio and declaração ou pedido de casamento (wedding proposal). Very common mistake.
You mean you try to proposition someone and ask them to marry you by mistake???
False FRIENDS = Falsos AMIGOS ou Falsos COGNATOS!
I dont know if I should be writing this on here but I once said to my fiancé's mum "bom dia boceta" when I meant to say "bonita".... omg her face 🤣🤣🤣🤣 desculpe mãe 😬😬😬😬😬
P.S. translate at your own risk... I'm not going to do it for you lol
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Não sei se é uma coisa minha, mas a palavra "before" sempre me sugeriu "depois" quando é precisamente o contrário: "antes".
Great video! Keep up the good work. If you have a second go have a browse of my channel and follow if you like 🧡💜
Another false friends:
i) "atual" which means "current" (and not "actual"). "Actual" translates to "real", "verdadeiro" in Portuguese.
ii) "eventual" which means "casual", "probable" (and not "eventual"). "Eventual" translates to "final", "último", "derradeiro" in Portuguese.
Where did you get those meanings? Something "actual" means "recent/in trend". And "eventual" means "ocasional".
Hi Liz, I don't know where you learned your Portuguese but you are over emphasizing the sh sounds in the s. I'm native Portuguese speaker and I would never never use the sh in the word costume and many others like it.
I sometimes exaggerate to help learners hear things clearly! Thanks for watching my channel even though you are a native Portuguese, I appreciate it!
J Lopes
What are you saying? We do use "sh" in "costume".
@@JC-uf8ym yes where I was born in Covilha.
Parece carioca falando, RS.
custou-.me perceber que não é portuguesa, dicção perfeita.
adeus.
a very strange language. sounds like an Hungarian person who tries to speak spanish