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| migs Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 3616 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 1 of 30 26 June 2014 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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So I'm planning to go overseas soon to Portugal for ... various reasons. I've dabbled in a Portuguese Extensive Group Class and done about 40 hours, going was good, but work commitments got in the way. I'd say I'm about half way to A1 but helluva rusty.
I have my ear-in, I can distinguish spoken words, but often not the subtleties first time. My parents speak Portuguese, my dad as a first language and my mom as a fluent second. If someone conjugates a word in front of me I can tell the differences. Reading is much better, but I figure that's just because the written word is easier for me than speaking. With production my grammar is terrible, but I know that (where?) I'm supposed to be doing something even if I'm not sure what. (E.g. I need to make this verb agree with the gender and number, but how does that go again?) In a month or so I will be fully immersed, and probably looking for a job, so I have some real strong motivation. Now I'm putting myself through a self-imposed crash course, to see how high and how fast I can go. Resource I've got the interwebs! which is great, but also full of garbage. I have the Teach Yourself Complete Portuguese by Manuela Cook, but no CD, but it doesn't matter since the pronunciation is easy for me. So I will be hitting the beep http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/portuguese/talk/ and doing the Complete Portuguese hopefully at least 5 days a week. Scratching around for other resources, so far have selected: Wikipedia 5000 common words http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Por tuguese_wordlist And the Dicionário Priberam de Língua Portuguesa http://www.priberam.pt/ for later (I don't have the vocab to use it) Meanwhile I will rely on google translate's gobbeldygoog to help me out. I'm also avidly reading these forums for hints, tips, and resources. I really have to do European and not Brazilian, and get it to as high a level as possible. Edited by migs on 27 June 2014 at 12:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| migs Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 3616 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 2 of 30 26 June 2014 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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História do dia http://www.historiadodia.pt/pt/index.aspx Biblioteca Digital Camões - Secção Infantil http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/conhecer/biblioteca-digital-c amoes/cat_view/131-infantil.html?start=10 A nice post for L/R (Listen/Read) http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=25456&PN=11
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| migs Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 3616 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 3 of 30 26 June 2014 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dug up my old textbook that I was using on the course: Portugues XXI by Ana Tavares, Level 1. Textbook + CD (~1 hour) + exercise book. ISBN 978-972-757-541-1. Very similar to the Alter-Ego book's I used to learn a bit of French. Edited by migs on 27 June 2014 at 12:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4658 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 4 of 30 27 June 2014 at 3:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll be following along!
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| migs Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 3616 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 5 of 30 27 June 2014 at 9:07am | IP Logged | ||
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List of false friends between English and Portuguese: http://web.letras.up.pt/egalvao/5543219-False-Friends-Englis h-and-Portuguese.pdf Edited by migs on 27 June 2014 at 12:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| migs Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 3616 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 6 of 30 27 June 2014 at 10:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Day 1
Nailed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/portuguese/talk/greetings/ Nice, variety of native speakers, most from the contenent, some serious "che-ching" (Brazilian accent) at the end of the videos, but it just adds a little spice. TYS: Read the quick start intro fluff, up to 1st "real" chapter, but not counting it as progress. Progress: BBC 1/10 TYS 0/25 = 1% overall 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| migs Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 3616 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 7 of 30 27 June 2014 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cognates! (True friends) How to: http://www.learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com/free-portuguese-le ssons.html List: http://www.futuroidiomas.com/#!cognate-list/c1sr2 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| migs Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 3616 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 8 of 30 27 June 2014 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Project Gutenberg Portuguese Bookshelf http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:PT_Prateleira Project Gutenberg Portuguese Children and Young Adult's Bookshelf http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/PT_Infantil_e_Juvenil_%28Prate leira%29 This looks promising with Brothers Grim and King Solomon's Mines. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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