Fourth Lesson for Beginners on Tomorrow Algarve
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How to introduce yourself
Even if we don’t like to talk about ourselves, there’s always a moment when someone wants to know our name, our nationality or even our age. Today we’re going to learn how to introduce ourselves in Portuguese.
The questions you must know:
- Como se chama? (What’s your name?) – The “ch” is pronounced as “sh” in “shoe”.
- De onde é? (Where are you from?)
- Onde mora? (Where do you live?)
- Qual é a sua profissão? / O que é que faz? (What’s your job? What do you do for a living?) – You have to pronounce the “u” in “Qual”, but you can’t pronounce it in “que”.
- Que idade tem? / Quantos anos tem? (How old are you?) – Remember to pronounce the “u” in “quantos”.
Try to relate the following answers to the previous questions:
- Tenho 40 anos.
- Chamo-me Rui.
- Sou advogado.
- Moro em Faro.
- Sou de Inglaterra.
Was it hard? Let’s see if you got them right:
a. – 2 / b. – 5 / c. – 4 / d. – 3 / e. – 1
- Como se chama? (What’s your name?)
Chamo-me Rui. (I’m Rui, literally, I call myself Rui.)
- De onde é? (Where are you from?)
Sou de Inglaterra. (I’m from England.)
- Onde mora? (Where do you live?)
Moro em Faro. (I live in Faro. Did you realize how the verb changed in the answer? “Mora” – você (formal you) / “Moro” – eu ( I ))
- Qual é a sua profissão? / O que é que faz?
Sou advogado. (I’m a lawyer. In Portuguese we don’t put anything before the name of the job, so we don’t say “Sou um advogado”, we say “Sou advogado”)
- Que idade tem? / Quantos anos tem? (How old are you?, litteraly “What age do you have?” and “How many years do you have?”. In Portuguese we use a difference verb to talk about age, instead of the verb “to be”, we use the verb “to have” – Ter.
Tenho 40 anos. (I’m 40 years old; literally “I have 40 years old”).