For those of you who don't speak a word of Portuguese and are planning on travelling to Brazil, here are some key words and phrases that I hope will come in quite handy!

Notes:

• if you're travelling to Portugal, the pronunciation of most of the words will be quite different, it's like the difference between American English and Queens English.
• I've tried to phonetically spell the words and phrases, so hopefully it will be easier for Brazilians to understand what you're saying... you'll still have a "gringo" accent, but it always helps to diminish it as much as possible!
• if there is an "r" (single) in the middle of a word, it is only a hard "r" (meaning, you roll it ONCE, so it kind of sounds like a soft "d") if it is preceded by and followed by a vowel.
• words or phrases in parenthesis are optional
• letters in parenthesis refer to the FEMININE version, that is, for all you woman out there, replace the last letter(s) with those is the parenthesis

Table of Contents

• Phrases and Important Words
• How to Conjugate Regular Verbs
• List of Regular Verbs
• Important Irregular Verbs