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Portuguese speakers learning Japanese
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (Português) quietly pushes you into specific Japanese errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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Verb goes last (SVO→SOV)

Portuguese is verb-medial; Japanese is strictly verb-final. Reorder "eu como arroz" into "eu arroz como" — subject, object, verb.

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Dropping pronouns transfers (advantage!)

Portuguese already omits eu/você — Japanese goes further and drops anything obvious from context, with no verb ending to recover it. Lean into leaving things out; repeating わたし sounds unnatural.

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Drop articles, gender and plural

O/a/os/as, gender and plural -s have no Japanese counterpart — nouns stay bare. Particles carry the grammar; nothing marks definiteness.

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Particles (は/が/を/に/で)

Particles mark grammatical role — choosing は vs が and を vs に is the core challenge.

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Verb-final word order

Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb; the verb always comes last.

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Counters

Counting needs the right counter word (一本, 一枚, 一匹) for the object’s shape/type.

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