Português para Estrangeiros: Os diferentes sons da consoante -C- / Portuguese for foreigner: The different sounds of consonant -C-

In the portuguese language some consonat’s has more than one sound wich makes much more harder for a foreign student to understand portuguese. Let’s see the fonetic case of -C-. -C- has two sounds: : [s] and [k]. It has sound [s] when its next to the vowels -e- & -i-. Example:  C + e = [se] -----» cebola [sebola]   - Onion                         C + i = [si] -----» cinzento [sinzento] - Grey It has sound [k] when its next to the vowels -a-, -o- & -u-. Example: C + a = [ka]…continue reading →