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English Spelled Like PortugueseIn English some of the easiest words for Portuguese speakers are English spelled like Portuguese. Some have been adopted into Portuguese from English, like ‘T-shirt’ and ‘week-end’. Fewer have been adopted into English from Portuguese. Others have been adopted into both English and Portuguese from Italian, like ‘cinema’ and ‘casino’, or from French, like ‘café’ and ‘rosé’, or from other languages. [In the following pronunciation guide, English words pronounced like Portuguese are included, enclosed in single quotation marks. A few pronunciations of other English words are also included. The rest of the English pronunciations will be added later.] ----- ENGLISH SPELLED LIKE PORTUGUESE ENGLISH -- [SAY PORTUGUESE] area artificial auto banana bar -- [‘bar’] bongo café canal canapé casino cereal chocolate chocolates cinema circular crepe -- [‘crepe’] deck digital duty-free euro euros favor fax -- [‘fax’] federal folk formula fotos gas gay -- [‘gay’] homosexual hospital hotel ibuprofen internet interior jazz jet-ski -- [-‘ski’] kiwi -- [KI-wi] kosher local login logoff manicure manual me -- [mi] mineral motor mousse muscular natural opera pedicure pimento PIN pop popular postal principal protector radio rap -- [‘rap’] rosé rum sauna ski -- [‘ski’] snowboard solar speed stop super surf taxi -- [‘taxi’] taxis -- [‘taxis’] terminal trailer trolley T-shirt -- [‘T-shirt’] TV -- [ti-VI] vagina vapor via -- [‘via’] zero ----- USED IN PORTUGAL (But Not In Brazil) ENGLISH -- [SAY PORTUGUESE] babysitter -- [‘babysitter’] beige bikini -- [‘bikini’] shampoo -- [‘shampoo’] sweatshirt -- [‘sweatshirt’] ----- USED IN BRAZIL (But Not In Portugal) ENGLISH -- [SAY PORTUGUESE] camping check in -- [‘check in’] diesel fast food -- [‘fast food’] playground -- [‘playground’] ----- FOR A GREATER CHALLENGE
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