Hippocratic Adventures Podcast
Jun 1, 2026 · 35 min · 12 segments
When we moved to Portugal in 2020, I knew I wouldn’t be able to practice medicine locally anytime soon. The only Portuguese word I knew was *obrigada*. And the Duolingo lessons I’d been doing on my…
Ashwini BapatHost
Emeric BojarskiHost
So if you were thinking of moving to Portugal and practicing medicine clinically here, the first place to start is definitely to learn the language.
And before we moved to Portugal, I was actually, you know, doing Duolingo and learning Portuguese there.
But it wasn't until I arrived in Portugal that I realized that the Portuguese I was learning was actually Brazilian Portuguese, which is pretty different in pronunciation-
So I would definitely start by learning the language, and I would start by learning European Portuguese.
So for those people who don't speak European Portuguese, is it a hard language to learn from English? Like how difficult is it?
I-- just to give you background, I mean, I learned Spanish in like middle school and high school-
And then I learned Portuguese, and so, um, I did have some background in terms of Latin-based grammar, so that definitely helped.
So if you were thinking of moving to Portugal and practicing medicine clinically here, the first place to start is definitely to learn the language.
And before we moved to Portugal, I was actually, you know, doing Duolingo and learning Portuguese there.
But it wasn't until I arrived in Portugal that I realized that the Portuguese I was learning was actually Brazilian Portuguese, which is pretty different in pronunciation-
So I would definitely start by learning the language, and I would start by learning European Portuguese.
So for those people who don't speak European Portuguese, is it a hard language to learn from English? Like how difficult is it?
I-- just to give you background, I mean, I learned Spanish in like middle school and high school-
And then I learned Portuguese, and so, um, I did have some background in terms of Latin-based grammar, so that definitely helped.
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