Ask for clarification, slow things down, and confirm you understood.
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Não entendi.
I didn't understand.
Você pode falar um pouco mais devagar, por favor?
Could you speak a little slower, please?
Você pode repetir, por favor?
Could you repeat that, please?
Você me entendeu?
Did you understand me?
Estou falando certo?
Am I saying this right?
Estou pronunciando certo?
Am I pronouncing this right?
Qual é o jeito certo de dizer?
What's the right way to say it? ('Jeito' — way/manner — a very Brazilian word.)
Esqueci.
I forgot.
Tem outra palavra para isso?
Is there another word for that? ('Tem' (literally 'has') is used as 'there is' in spoken Portuguese.)
Isso é a mesma coisa que isto?
Is that the same as this? ('Coisa' = thing — literally 'the same thing as'.)
Como se diz…?
How do you say…? ('Se diz' — literally 'one says itself' — the impersonal 'how is it said'.)
O que isso significa?
What does this mean?
Como se chama isso?
What's this called? (Literally 'how does this call itself?')
Sério? Está certo?
Really? Is that right?
Por quê? Por que é assim?
Why? Why is it like this? ('Por quê?' at the end of a sentence gets an accent; 'por que' in the middle doesn't.)
Você pode repetir isso pra mim?
Can you repeat that for me? ('Pra' is the spoken contraction of 'para'.)
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