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When I learned from Portuguese teacher that there are 56 verb endings, many irregular, i gave up and just use present tense for everything. i get by.

Two more things about Portugal: Foreign movies (i.e. English language movies) are subtitled, not dubbed like most other western European countries. There is no ebay in PT. There is olx.pt which is a website that connects buyers and sellers, but it’s not an end-to-end transaction and trust is...

In my experience older Portuguese people are 100% family oriented and not interested in internationally mobile foreigners As this is an audiophile website, i was talking about music stuff. Portugal has much, much less than London, Paris, Geneva which are the other big cities I know.

OP is looking for culture, there’s not much outside Lisbon & Porto.

Portuguese people in Lisbon, Porto & Algarve are mostly able to communicate in English. My Portuguese bank helpline has a “press 2” for English, and the portuguese youngster at the bank that i spoke to yesterday on Skype had no problem understanding and sorting my problem. Less so in the deep...

I’m a retired Brit living just outside Lisbon. You are right to focus on Lisbon & Porto, they are the cultural hubs of the country. Last week we saw the opera house symphony orchestra supporting a silent movie in one of the nicest theatres in town. Sunday we’re going to see Richard Bona at CCB...