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2. Portuguese Pronunciation
|Portuguese Letter||English Sound|
|a||like a in after|
|e||like e in empty or if it's at the end of a word, like ee in cheese|
|i||always like ee|
|o||like the sound of all but without the l sound|
|u||always like oo in fool|
|lh||like lli in million but shorter|
|nh||like ny in canyon|
|r||in beginning of word like h in hot. Between two letters like the Italian r in Maria|
|rr||always like h in hot|
|d||like in English|
|j||like in English but without the d sound. Something like zh or a hard sh|
|g||before e and i like j. Otherwise like g in go|
|gue, gui||the g in go followed by e or i|
|qua, quo||are always pronounced separately, like kwa, kwo|
|s||between vowels, like z in zoo; otherwise like z. (In Portugal, like sh when at the end of a word.)|
|x||sometimes like sh in shift or like z in zoo|
|z||like z in English (In Portugal, like zh when at the end of a word.)|
|ã||like oe in does|
|â||like ã but shorter|
|á||like a in Artic|
|ê||like e but shorter|
|é||like a in apple|
|í||like i but longer|
|ô||like o but shorter|
|ó||like o in more|
|ú||like u but longer|
|ch||like sh in shift|
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