5 Must-Know Brazilian Portuguese Words & Phrases
Fernando Nonohay Nonohay 
In this post, we'll practice five, very useful Brazilian Portuguese words and phrases that every learner should know.
1. Number one is an extremely common greeting that literally means All well?
Tudo bem?
The O in 'tudo' is pronounced as [oo], and the em sound in 'bem' is pronounced as [ayng]. A very common mistake is for learners to force that M sound and say [bayM]. Don't do that - that M is just there to tell you that the vowel before is nasalized.
To answer to that question all you need to do is to repeat the same phrase with the intonation of a statement: Tudo bem!
2. Number two is an extremely common word that Brazilians of all backgrounds and ages use. This word means cool, nice. It's the adjective
legal
The L at the end of the word is pronounced as [oo] [legaoo].
There are three ways you can use this word in a sentence.
You can use it as a greeting, similar to the one we saw before:
Tudo legal?
You can repeat it with the intonation of a statement to say All cool!(Everything is great):
Tudo legal!
You can also use 'legal' as a way of responding to something someone says to you, similar to the English Ah, cool! or Ah, OK:
Ah, legal!
Additionally, you can use it as a way of saying How cool!:
Que legal!
3 is a phrase for please:
por favor
The first O is pronounced as [oo], and the second O is pronounced as [oh].
The R in both words is pronounced as a light trill, when the tongue lightly brushes the roof of your mouth. One more thing about this phrase: you can also use it to start a question, like '-Excuse me...' in English / 'Por favor...' and then you ask the question.
4. Number four is a word for thank you:
men say obrigado, [oo] sound at the end,
women say obrigada, [ah] sound at the end.
In colloquial conversation the first O is sometimes silent, so you might hear people saying
'brigado
'brigada
5. Number five of our list is how to say goodbye - the easiest and most common way is by saying:
Tchau!
and, you can add
Até mais! which is a way of saying See you later!
Tchau! Até mais!
Categories: : Vocabulary, How to Say Anything in Brazilian Portuguese, Expressions