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| austin1 Newbie United States Joined 5923 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: German | Message 1 of 9 13 September 2008 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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Hi all!
Can anyone by any chance recommend any really good language schools in Portugal? I'd like to improve my Portuguese, and feel that living/studying in the country for an extended period of time would really help. Unfortunately my university only offers programs in Brazil (and I'm really bent on Euro-Portuguese), so I'm looking for things outside of my school. I've been looking online as well, but I'm not sure which websites to trust. Thanks so much! Tina 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dutos Newbie Argentina Joined 5919 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 9 07 October 2008 at 2:12am | IP Logged |
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Here you go. This is about as legit of a list that you can get:
http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/recaprender/cursosPLE.htm l (In case you've never seen it, that site ^^^^ has some good practice material for free too.) Just an FYI: I'm sure that you've already done the math, but there's 20 million people worldwide who speak the European dialect -vs- 180-200 million that speak the Brazilian dialect. Plus, if you ever go to Brazil speaking with a Portuguese accent, they will surely laugh at you. Culturally speaking, it's NOTHING like the James Bond Britsh -vs- American-accented English. The Portuguese are the butt of many a joke in Brazil, and the scape-goat for many of Brazil's past & present "challenges." Oh yeah, just another one.. spelling reforms are in the works that will change the European dialect **to conform with the Brazilian dialect.** (at least in spelling) Yes, you read that correctly: the Portuguese are going to conform to Brazilian standards. I think that the only difference is the trema (¨), which will disappear in Brazil except in peoples' names. (There's actually a lot more difference in the dialects, but that's a discussion for another day.) Edited by dutos on 07 October 2008 at 2:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| austin1 Newbie United States Joined 5923 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: German | Message 3 of 9 07 October 2008 at 8:24am | IP Logged |
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Hi!
Thank you so so much! Yes, I do realize that there are many more speakers of Brazilian Portuguese than European Portuguese, and I am very much aware of the cultural differences. However, my family's from Portugal, and if I ever learned Brazilian portuguese, they would kill me. It's a cool dialect without a doubt (that accent is crazy!), just that I'd be the laughingstock of my parents and extended family :( Therefore, it's euro-portuguese for me Edited by austin1 on 07 October 2008 at 8:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sapedro Triglot Senior Member Portugal descredito.blogspot. Joined 7124 days ago 216 posts - 219 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English, French Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Greek | Message 4 of 9 09 October 2008 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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Just like nearly everyone in Europe prefers the European dialect, and nearly everyone in the Americas prefers the South American dialect.
And dutos' comment is very very close to xenophobe :SSSS 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dutos Newbie Argentina Joined 5919 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 9 09 October 2008 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
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sapedro:
Hmm.. if I was against the Portuguese accent, then why would I give her that web address? The Portuguese really need to drop the inferiority commplex... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| austin1 Newbie United States Joined 5923 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: German | Message 6 of 9 09 October 2008 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
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I'm sorry, I hope you don't think I have anything personal against Brazil! I just can't get over the accent, like the d-pronounced-like-a-g thing, or how they don't pronounce s's like sh's (for example, in os meus amigos). it's quite a funky and unique accent, but I'm so accustomed to euro-portuguese (since I've only grown up with it) that I think it would just be alot easier for me to learn, and I'll start checking out that language school, for sure Edited by austin1 on 09 October 2008 at 11:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dutos Newbie Argentina Joined 5919 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 9 10 October 2008 at 12:21am | IP Logged |
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Austin1:
I was glad that I could help. I'm not even Brazilian, by the way, AND I've also lived in Portugal too (Nice country to live!). So, I guess you can say that I like both dialects equally. sapredo was mistaken when he thought that I was taking the side of the Brazilians. Another good resource before you go, if you haven't seen it already: RTPi TV station: http://www.rtp.pt/rtpi/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| samiamnot Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5767 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 8 of 9 16 February 2009 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
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I went to a language school in the city of O Porto by the name of Fastforward for a couple of weeks to improve my Portuguese. It was a fun experience and if I remember correctly it wasn't that expensive. When I went in my Portuguese was level 1B(beginner) and when I left it was 3A(Advanced) so i guess it helped. For me the hardest thing was understanding the various Portuguese accents. I could speak and they would understand me but it was harder to understand them. especially with people from the country side and from the Azores and north eastern Brazil. I'd recommend the school, but I would still say that standard Brazilian Portuguese is easier to speak. Boa sorte
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