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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 393 of 706 17 January 2014 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you for the information, Expugnator! Yeah, I'm a bit nervous, but I've heard what you said about Brazilians, so that relaxes me a bit. I'll just relax and see what I can do. I often set a study schedule for times of the day, and I think the schedule I make is awesome for me, so when the unexpected happens, I get frustrated. I think I need to be more flexible. If I can't read, it's okay for me to do something else - even something less intensive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 394 of 706 18 January 2014 at 12:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, be flexible, expect to rearrange. Sometimes I am worried because of stuff that won't
let me study, then I solve these issues and start to catch up one item after one. Sooner than I've realized, I'm almost done with everything. It's better to shift from your ordinary order in such days. You won't have the feeling that "Oh, I had this and that happening and I could only do 35% of what I do in languages"; on the contrary, you'll feel that you had a lot happening but that you could do a lot of study nonetheless. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4288 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 395 of 706 18 January 2014 at 6:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Also I feel that European Portuguese is probably similar to English wherein many words
are not pronounced completely, i.e. there is much mixing of words and dropping of vowels, merging of consonants, etc. Almost every word sounds like it has a schwa or a syllable drop, like in English. In European Portuguese, a random sentence like, «O que vais tomar, uma cerveja ou uma copa de vinho?» sounds like, with English alphabet, "oo k'ə v'zh t'mə, 'mə, sə'vayzh', o 'mə cawp' də veeny'?". I suppose this is like how in English, "Are you coming now or not?" might sound like, "ə yə kə'm'n'ə ə nət?" Carminho falando numa capela 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 396 of 706 18 January 2014 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||
I have only a "beginner's ear", but it seems to me that standard Brazilian Portuguese is a little easier to listen to and understand than standard Iberian Portuguese. However, the more I learn, the more the difference is reduced, and I'm starting to just recognize them as two versions of the same language. Another video link? You are awesome! I'm starting to like fado. And I've already watched a few minutes of the Portugueses em Osaka video and have downloaded a few of the videos in that Portugueses Pelo Mundo series. There are no videos I like watching more than travel videos, or videos about other countries. I can't believe I didn't think of searching for such videos in Japanese and Portuguese before. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 397 of 706 18 January 2014 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Search for Adnet Viaja then kuji, it was a TV program with a famous brazilian comediant,
Marcelo Adnet, the one who has stand-up videos in Papiamsento. Not sure if you can watch them from MTV anymore but I believe there's something at YT . 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 398 of 706 22 January 2014 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Forlán will now play in your city's team...
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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 399 of 706 23 January 2014 at 5:31am | IP Logged | ||
Nossa! Eu não soube até agora! I had no idea! That is my favorite football team in Japan, and I like Forlán a little. I really need to make time to go to a Cerezo Osaka game now. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 400 of 706 23 January 2014 at 5:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I SPOKE PORTUGUESE TO SOMEONE... KIND OF
As I mentioned earlier, a group of expatriots in the Osaka area came to our school this morning to speak English with the students in my advanced English conversation class. One of them was from Brazil, a 50-something-year-old man. I spent a week going over possible conversations and what I would say to him. I heard that Brazilians are very friendly, and that certainly was the case with this particular fellow. Unfortunately for me, he was more friendly with the cute girls in my class. He spent the entire two classes talking to just the girls and getting them to squeal and giggle. I managed to squeeze in a few Portuguese sentences, but to no avail. It was all English with this guy. In fact, one time he said, "What was that you were speaking? Spanish?" It was a joke; he wasn't being ill-mannered. But in all, I said three sentences in Portuguese - "Bem-vindo a nossa escola", "Muito prazer", and "Esse estudante é muito engraçado" - all with no reply in Portuguese. But like I said, he was there to speak English to my students, not Portuguese with me, so he was doing his job. And the schedule was quite tight, both for him and me, so there was no time for us to hang out. He didn't seem that interested in it, anyway. Ah well, I'm not too shaken up by it. Better luck next time, right? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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