The ultimate guide for any galician trying to speak portuguese... (Chapter III)

"Muito obrigado", Rober:

Yes, yes, yes... you already know what comes after the video...

A brief lesson about adjectives:

• "exquisito" doesn't mean tasteful but rare, strange... (but you should write it as "esquisito", with 's', in portuguese...)
• "espantoso" doesn't mean terrible, but terrific...

Some kind of "false friends" in portuguese too, I suppose...

• "borracho" means drunk in galician, but handsome/pretty/beautiful in portuguese.
• "chulo" means handsome/pretty/beautiful in galician, but it only refers to that man behind every whore (a procurer, which would lead me to talk about the spanish term "procurador", but I will not) when you're speaking portuguese. 

Moreover, going on with this topic, a "puto", which is some kind of bad word in spanish, only means child in portuguese... And a "rapaza", a girl in galician, means whore/bitch in portuguese... So take care using that word and change your vocabulary to use "rapariga" instead... But also be careful when traveling to Brazil, where "rapariga" is the word used for whores... You must use "menina" or "garota" there... This seems some kind of words game from hell, doesn't it?

More, more, more...

• "embaraçada", which means embarrassed in portuguese, is pronounced like "embarazada", which means pregnant in spanish... You must use the word "grávida" to refer to pregnant women in Portugal.

All of this leads us to be able to say, in some situations, that a man is "embaraçado", something that would cause laugh if you say it after having crossed the borderline.

• "meiga" is a familiar word to galician people. It means witch in galician (a good witch, I must say, not a bad one, which would be called "bruxa"), but it's not a name but an adjective in portuguese, meaning warm, loving and affable...

Enough by now, don't you think so? More to come... there are at least seven videos like these three we've already reviewed...

See you!