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

Your native language (Italiano) quietly pushes you into specific Portuguese 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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from your first language

Italian↔Portuguese false friends

burro = donkey in PT but butter in IT (butter = manteiga); guardar = to keep, not guardare (look = olhar); salire ≠ sair (= to leave).

from your first language

Future subjunctive (Italian lost it)

After quando/se about the future, Portuguese uses a form Italian doesn't have: "quando CHEGAR, ligo-te" — not the present or future indicative.

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Personal (inflected) infinitive

Portuguese conjugates the infinitive: "é melhor FAZERMOS isso" (for us to do). Italian has nothing like it — treat it as a new tool, not an error.

core challenge

Gender + agreement

Articles and adjectives agree: o livro vermelho / a casa vermelha.

core challenge

ser vs estar

ser = permanent/identity; estar = temporary/state.

core challenge

Nasal sounds (ão, õe, ã)

Portuguese nasal vowels are distinctive and hard to hear at first.

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