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| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4734 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 34 04 June 2015 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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To recap the German / Portuguese sections- I majored in German, and apart from the
classes I took I mostly relied on massive amounts of intensive reading- looking up any word I didn't know. Unfortunately, my semester abroad proved that I wasn't nearly at the communicative level I thought, and after college I no longer had an obvious outlet for the language, and let it lay fellow for several years. Luckily, the story has a happy ending- several years back, I decided to start reviving my German, just for the fun of it. And it's been a big success! I now have a regular Skype exchange, I go to a Stammtisch, and I do a fair amount of reading and listening as well. Currently, I'm kind of treading water, but I am on the lookout for anything that will help with understanding Austrian accents and dialects. As for Portuguese, this is the first and only language I learned to fluency using the methods I picked up here at HTLAL, so I'm certainly fond of it! I started with Assimil Brasilianisch ohne Mühe, and then slowly mixed in more native sources and a few skype lessons. I now have a steady diet of blogs, podcasts, meetups and the like, and even adding in sources from Portugal hasn't been terribly difficult. I think my next project has to be writing more in Portuguese- especially given how much time I poured into the few paragraphs above! 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 10 of 34 06 June 2015 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Desculpe ter corrigido diretamente no seu texto sem nenhuma formatação especial, mas estou à disposição para discutir cada um desses pontos! Apenas uma coisa mais importante: 'acabar com' é exterminar, aniquilar. 'Eu vou acabar com você' é uma ameaça típica de um vilão de histórias em quadrinhos ou filmes de super-heróis. Não tenho o hábito de ouvir podcasts, mas posso recomendar um programa tipo "O Mundo segundo os brasileiros", só que uns poucos anos mais velho, chama-se 'Adnet viaja'. Boa sorte! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4734 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 34 07 June 2015 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Muito obrigado por corrigir meu textão, Expugnator! Sem dúvida este fórum é inadequado para
correções, mas botei em Evernote e estudei cuidadosamente. Essa coisa de há sem acento me dá vergonha, e ainda tenho o mal hábito de usar verbo reflexivo mesmo que não exista... Só uma pergunta:
Deve ser ... uma palavra sim e outra não no dicionário? 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 12 of 34 07 June 2015 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Sim, é verdade, acabei apagando o 'no' aí...
No seu post acima: mau hábito - mau = bad (adjective), mal = badly (adverb), evil (noun) Fora isto, você escreveu muito bem! Quem dera eu conseguisse escrever bem assim em francês ou em norueguês. 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 13 of 34 07 June 2015 at 4:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Também achei que era muito bem escrito :)
Talvez vc vai gostar do programa "Portugueses pelo mundo"? :) (omg nem soube que havia vídeos sobre Finlândia, Islândia, Sérvia...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4734 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 34 07 June 2015 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Obrigado Expugnator e Serpent!
Portugueses pelo mundo tem também, até agora só assisti os episódios em lugares que conheço, acho que é mais fácil entender. Tem até madrileños por el mundo para los hispanofalantes! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4734 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 34 08 June 2015 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Estudié español en la colegia, sin mucho éxito. Aunque sea uno de los mejores alumnos
en la clase, un curso de una colegia norteamericana no va a preparar nadie a usar un idioma en el mundo real. Después empecé a estudiar portugués, y por eso hablo más Portuñol. O quizas deba decir Castegués, porque lo que la gente aqui en los EEUU entiende de Portuñol es un hispanohablante que quiere hablar portugués pero acaba hablando una mexcla, mientras que yo intento hablar español pero lo que sale de mi boca es 80% portugués! Realmente no estoy pensando en estudiar el castellano de forma correcta, sino en mejorar mi portuñol, así que, sin mucho tiempo, puedo mantener una conversación más o menos funcional. Mis recursos son, principalmente, unos amigos que conozco de un grupo de portugués que me ofrecieron su apoyo. También voy a ver algunos videos en youtube para mejorar mi comprensión de los acentos españoles, y escuchar podcasts de vez en cuando. Si tenéis recomendaciones para podcasts o otros recursos, por favor deja un comentario aqui! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4734 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 34 09 June 2015 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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On to French- I'm not sure I'm ready to inflict my written French on all of you,
so let's stick with l'Anglais. I always had a little interest in French, and even made a bit of effort to study it several years back, before Portuguese came along. I went through the introductory Michel Thomas course and about a month of Assimil, before realizing that I wasn't really motivated enough. So am I more motivated now? Well, this time I actually have some potential contact with the language to look forward to. And I'm curious to see how far I can get in just a few months. It's also good to know that there is a huge world of books and movies and speakers in various continents, should I make it to the higher levels. This is pretty shaky motivational ground, but I think it will get me through to August, and hopefully my experience will inform whether I decide to pursue French at a higher level. My main resource is Assimil New French with Ease, which I've been spicing up with some native written French- stuff like Huffington Post. I want to add a few lessons, but so far it's been hard to find the time. I'm on lesson 41 of Assimil right now, so I probably won't finish it before leaving. I'm also going to build a personalized phrase book / collection of islands in all of my languages (at varying degrees of complexity, of course). Feel free to write in French if the mood strikes you, as I don't have much trouble understanding the general forum-speak. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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