Is it correct to say ''O que estas a fazer?'' to ask what are you doing?
Er....Sorry that there's sth. wrong, It's a portuguese question.There has been something wrong with my computer that I can only choose from either Japanese or Chinese,,,,,,

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Is it correct to say  ''O que estas a fazer?'' to ask what are you doing?
Er....Sorry that there's sth. wrong, It's a portuguese question.There has been something wrong with my computer that I can only choose from either Japanese or Chinese,,,,,,

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Yes, you can. Actually you used an European Portuguese structure
Estar a + verb in infitinitive

It is the same in Brazilian Portuguese
Estar + verb in gerund (fazendo, falando)

There is no problem, but I recommend you to be consistent when using one of the variants.

Regards

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It's not a problem of your computer.  Italki allows you to post questions only on the languages that you speak or you learn, so you are supposed to add Portuguese to one of languages you're learning.  I think this is rather a stupid configuration, though.

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I don't think they say that a lot in Japan!

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