Bougie Portuguese

Bougie Portuguese

Hosted by: Catarina Bento

Bougie Portuguese is the podcast for people who want to sound like they belong in Portugal — not like they studied it.

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Episodes

Vinho or Binho? The Porto Accent Nobody Warns You About

Ask for *vinho* in Porto and don't be surprised if what comes back sounds like *binho*. It's not a mishearing, and it's not bad pronunciation — it's the actual Porto accent, where V quietly becomes B and the written...
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Bica, Cimbalino, and the Myth of Wrong Portuguese

You can be a native speaker and still get corrected in your own language. That's what happened to Catarina — Lisbon-born, Four Seasons–trained, three years into her cooking career — the day she moved to Porto and...
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