🇵🇹 Portuguese
Português • Latin
Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)
Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.
What matters most
Você (often neutral/formal) vs tu varies by region.
- When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
- Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
Tu és daqui?
Are you from here? (tu)
Você fala inglês?
Do you speak English? (você)
Fala inglês?
Do you speak English?
Mini challenge
Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).
Mini‑quiz
Mini-quiz
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Which sentence matches “Are you from here? (tu)”?