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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 9 of 10 18 March 2014 at 9:17pm | IP Logged |
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FSI's "From Spanish to Portuguese" is useful if you are an English-speaker who knows Spanish well and are planning a trip to Brazil. It in no way substitutes for a complete course like FSI Basic or DLI Portuguese Basic Course. Also, if your goal is the Iberian pronunciation and features, it will serve to confuse you. Brazilian and Iberian Portuguese are one language but there are differences in grammar and pronunciation that can confuse beginners. After gaining a bit more experience with the language, it's not that difficult to become familiar with the other variety and not have it affect your pronunciation or usage.
Like many people, I, too, thought it would be a natural to use a resource like FSI From Spanish to Portuguese. How could it not be? What I found was that it caused me to think too much of Portuguese in terms of how it relates to Spanish and not on it's own merits. When I dropped it and started to see the differences for myself and began to see Portuguese as its own, separate but similar, language, I made more rapid progress. That being said, that's my experience. YMMV. Edited by iguanamon on 18 March 2014 at 9:22pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Corinwright1994 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4607 days ago 27 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 10 of 10 18 March 2014 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
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thanks for all the advice guys, I will try ans track down some good resources, as well as
looking at the ones recommended to me here. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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