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First Portuguese Script/Primera escritura portuguesa. Pirmeiro diálogo/roteiro/texto em português:
Como te chamas? Eu chamo-me Marco, ou Mark, em inglês.
I think that works in European Portuguese (EP). In Brazilian Portuguese the reflexive pronoun would come before the verb: "Eu me chamo Marco". It happens in EP in negative clauses, like "Eu não me chamo Pedro" and in a few other contexts that demand such inversion.
Venho de da África do Sul, mas moro na Inglaterra. Eu estudo lá. Finança. , onde estudo Finanças.
Most countries have a gender and demand a feminine or masculine definite article. There's no way to guess it except for memorising one by one. África do Sul is feminine, so de + a = da (venho da África do Sul). Brazil is masculine, so de + o = do (venho do Brasil). Some others, as far as I can remember, only Portugal and Cuba, should never take an article: Venho de Portugal, venho de Cuba.Eu gosto de viajar. Você é (Tu) és de Portugal, certo?
If you started with "tu" for 2nd person, stay with that. Once I was told that the Portuguese use "você" with people they don't know, as a sign of politeness, and change it to "tu" when they're familiar with you. But I haven't been able to confirm that information yet.
EP tends to skip the pronoun as a subject.
Minha primeira frase em português: Minha noiva vai pagar por tudo.
I guess "She will pay for everything" is ambiguous in English, right? Either everything you're having is on her, or you'll revenge against her.
In Portuguese, if everything you're having is on her, better say "minha noiva vai pagar tudo".
Eu ainda sou um iniciante, mas como se diz "trying" em português?It depends on the context. It can be "tentar" ou "experimentar".
In the sense of "attempt to", it is usually "tentar". I am trying to understand: (eu) estou tentando entender.But in the sense of "taste sth", it will be "experimentar". "I'll try the sushi": vou experimentar o sushi.For experiences, I'd say "experimentar" is the best choice:
[someone willing to have new experiences] I wanna try new things - quero experimentar coisas novas.If you say "quero tentar coisas novas", it's not bad, but sounds like a google's translation, and seems like the past things you tried have failed and you still didn't give up.For "try on [a piece of clothing]", it will be experimentar as well. She needs to try on the dress: ela precisa experimentar o vestido. "try out" can be experimentar or testar: she tried out the car -- ela experimentou/testou o carro. There are still many usages of "try" in English that are not easy to translate into Portuguese. You'd need to check case by case0 votedFebruary 8, 20190
