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Can you imagine the number of times you mention a number in a day? Someone
has already done this research, and in average a normal person who doesn't work
with numbers, uses them over 250 times a day!
OK! Let's think for a while, and let's imagine situations when we use numbers...
When we want to know the time, every time we buy or sell anything, catching the
bus, finding an address, checking our weight, asking Rotary for your allowance,
reading a book, paying teacher Nick an ice-cream, reading the newspapers, finding
which floor an apartment is on, using the elevator, filling up our car tank, watching
the number of calories in our food, checking timetables, looking at our mobile
phone... wow!
When you know how to pronounce Portuguese numbers, if you use all these
opportunities to practise them, my friend, you'll be a master!
There are many interesting theories about numbers, and one of them is the fact
that numbers can show how fluent you are in a foreign language.
There are those who defend the opinion that if you reach a point in which you can
do mathematics in a second language, this is an indicator that you are fluent in that
particular language.
Well, I don't think this is quite true, but I admit there is some veracity in it.
But, OK, let's forget the philosophy of numbers, for the time being, and let's get
started!
0 - Zero [zeh-ro]
4 - Quatro [kwa-troo]
5 - Cinco [cin-koo]
8 - Oito [oy-too]
9 - Nove [noh-vee]
Now read all of them again and then backwards. Repeat it up to 10 times
if necessary.
Now read these numbers with no help. Write them down the way you say
them. Then check them out if you said them correctly.
Write 3 long phone numbers in a piece of paper and say them as fast as you can.
One digit at a time.
.
Write 3 other long phone numbers in a piece of paper and say them as fast as you
can again. One digit at a time.
.
You must spend at least 15 minutes with these 10 numbers only, before you move
forward. The more you practise, the better you know how to pronounce Portuguese
numbers.
10 - Dez [day-iss]
11 - Onze [on-zee]
12 - Doze [doh-zee]
13 - Treze [tray-zee]
14 - Catorze [ka-tor-zee]
15 - Quinze [keen-zee]
17 - Dezessete [chee-zeh-seh-chee]
18 - Dezoito [chee-zoy-too]
19 - Dezenove [chee-zeh-noh-vee]
20 - Vinte [veen-tchee]
In order to carry on after number 20 what you should do is: Vinte e um (21), vinte
e dois (22), vinte e três (23), etc..
Write 3 long phone numbers in a piece of paper and say them in groups of 2
numbers, as fast as you can
(e.g. 12, 15, 17, etc).
You must spend at least another 15 minutes with these 10 numbers only, before
you move forward. In order to achieve results in how to pronounce Portuguese
numbers, you should read the pronunciation tips in brackets.
In this next stage, you will be learning how to pronounce numbers from 10
to 100 in tens.
10 - Dez [day-ss]
20 - Vinte [veen-chee]
30 - Trinta [treen-tah]
40 - Quarenta [kwa-ren-tah]
50 - Cinquenta [cin-kwen-tah]
60 - Sessenta [seh-sen-tah]
70 - Setenta [seh-tayn-tah]
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80 - Oitenta [oy-tayn-tah ]
90 - Noventa [noo-vayn-tah]
After 100 what you do is cento e um (101), cento e dois (102), cento e três
(103), cento e trinta, (130), cento e quarenta e cinco (145), etc.
After 100 you must say "cento", like cento e um (101), cento e dois (102), etc..
Now read those numbers again, but backwards. Write them down the
way you say them. Then check them out if you said them correctly.
Write 3 long phone numbers on a piece of paper and say them in groups of 2
numbers, as fast as you can (e.g. 12, 55, 87, etc).
You must spend at least another 15 minutes with these numbers before you move
forward. That's a good way to get to know how to pronounce Portuguese numbers,
without hassle.
You are further than half way of learning how to pronounce Portuguese numbers.
So, let's go!
Please notice that you must connect hundreds with tens and units with e, like 368
= trezentos e sessenta e oito.
Now read those numbers again, but backwards again. Write them down
the way you say them. Then check them out if you said them correctly.
You must spend at least about 10 minutes with these numbers before you move
forward. Remember that your knowledge of how to pronounce Portuguese numbers
is getting broader and broader.
You know the numbers up to 10, from 10 to 20, from 20 to 100, and from 100 to
1000.
Now, to go beyond that, all you need is revision. The reason I'm saying this is:
So the way you say 2000 is "dois mil", and 3000 is "três mil", and so on.
In Brazilian Portuguese you write "bilhão" but the pronunciation is pretty much the
same.
Note: You might have noticed that I separated the millions from the thousands
with a "dot". In Portuguese you do the opposite as in English. You separate
Thousands from hundreds with "pontos" (dots), and decimal numbers with
"vírgulas" (commas).
Like this:
Portuguese English
23.487.286.842,14 23,487,286,842.14
Exercise them often. Maybe "duas" or "três" times a day, before you go on holidays
or before you meet your Portuguese speaking friends.
You can practise them now, by reading the following numbers in loud voice: