Brazilian Pronunciation

Letter Sounds In Portuguese

By Ligia Fleckenstein / Brazilian Pronunciation

It’s possible to create different sounds in Portuguese when you combining two letters in pairs like SS, RR, LH, NH, CH, when using accent signs over the vowels (á, é, ó, ú, ê, ô, ã, õ, à) and when using the cedilla under the C – ç.

The Portuguese Alphabet

By Ligia Fleckenstein / Brazilian Pronunciation

There are 26 letters in the Portuguese Alphabet just as there are in the American alphabet. The letters K, W and Y used to be considered foreign letters, but after the last orthographic reform in 2009, they were incorporated them into the regular alphabet.