tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6124 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French
| Message 9 of 14 20 November 2009 at 3:01pm | IP Logged |
OK...i finished another book! I made it through "O alquimista" in two days! I'm proud of myself.
I think this was easier for me, primarily because I have more confidence and a different approach to reading than I did before. Also I'm not looking up words anymore; I just write them down to keep track of them, without the tedium I went through with "O vencedor está só". I counted 97 words in total, most of them nouns(i.e maçico, largartixa, cachimbo, espingardas, etc).
Now I have to decide what to read next - probably more Paulo Coelho, but I'm not sure.
Edited by tritone on 20 November 2009 at 3:10pm
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tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6124 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French
| Message 10 of 14 22 November 2009 at 3:21pm | IP Logged |
Ok I attempted to read Dom Casmurro, but had to put it down. Its WAY to difficult for me.
So I'll just continue with some other Paulo Coelho book, before trying to take on the 'classics'.
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5836 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 11 of 14 22 November 2009 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
Why don't you try Jorge Amado? He's my favourite Brazilian author. Generally not too difficult to understand, there is a lot of colloquilisms but you soon get used to them. Where do you find the Brazilian shows on the internet? Just on youtube?
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tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6124 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French
| Message 12 of 14 29 November 2009 at 9:35pm | IP Logged |
I opted to read "O zahir", which I'm enjoying
stelingo wrote:
Why don't you try Jorge Amado? He's my favourite Brazilian author. Generally not too difficult to understand, there is a lot of colloquilisms but you soon get used to them. |
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Thanks for the heads up. Any specific book you would recommend?
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Yes, and also on a few blogs that upload shows/movies.
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tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6124 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French
| Message 13 of 14 24 January 2010 at 4:09am | IP Logged |
I started my Vlog:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Tritone#p/a/u/0/TNGmjyI3gLM
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tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6124 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French
| Message 14 of 14 30 January 2010 at 9:41pm | IP Logged |
video #2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxmgBTN-5OI
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