Portuguese is a language with a rich history. In Portugal. Portuguese is an ancient language that is also classified as a Romance language. It developed from the Latin language when Roman settlers brought introduced it to Portugal in 200 BCE. However, despite being born in Portugal, only a small number of the Portuguese speakers of today are living in the country where everything began, Portugal. Brazil has the largest number of Portuguese speakers versus Portuguese speakers combed in the rest of the world! However, Portuguese was recognised as the official language of Portugal only in 1290, when King Denis of Portugal declared it a language of Portugal.
Let’s now see how you can get over your fear of speaking the language of Portuguese.
Speaking skills are one of the most important skills that an individual is required to master in order to become proficient in any language. Additionally, speaking skills are a very practical skill in nature. This means that this skill cannot be improved or even practised for that matter without actually utilising it. Hence, in order to get over your fear of speaking the language of Portuguese, you actually need to utilise the skill. Eventually, you will start to realise the mistakes that you made and also learn how to rectify each and everyone of them. There are multiple ways to not only build your confidence in order to get over your fear of speaking in the language but to also improve the language in the process. On the top of the list is the practice of speaking to yourself in the language. Don’t worry, you are not alone. Most of the newbies and students in the initial stages of mastering this language utilise this practice in order to master speaking skills. While speaking to yourself, you can make as many mistakes as you want and rectify it as you go. You don’t have to worry about anybody judging you or finding errors in the way you speak. You can first start off by simply reading out material, eventually learn how to simply introduce yourself, try writing a speech and delivering it, try conversing on a hot topic and finally try talking for a lengthy amount of time on a topic that interests you. These are all some ideas that you can use while practising speaking to yourself. The second is a rather friendly manner of building confidence and getting over your fear of Speaking the language. If you are confident enough, you can try online conversations with actual natives. This is actually a better way of mastering the speaking skills, as you would have a professional or a native right there to correct you and help you get better. This way you will also gain enough confidence to hold conversations in real life with others. A native will also teach you all the important slangs or any important proverbs that the general public use while talking.
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Portuguese is spoken as a mother tongue by 1.3M people in Mozambique, and by 4M people in Angola (that’s literally 20% of the population of Angola). Galician, spoken by 3M people in North West Spain, is so similar to Portuguese that speakers of either language can generally comprehend each other with minimum effort. In 1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal and has thus existed for almost 200 years as a sovereign state. It is for this reason that the Portugueses spoken in Brazil is so different to the one spoken Portugal.