Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5985 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French
| Message 1 of 4 15 January 2010 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
Today was the day I realized for the first time that I speak Portuguese. I SPEAK PORTUGUESE. I had a full
conversation with my teacher without even realizing what was happening. For the first time that I've noticed I
didn't have to put conscious effort into constructing the sentences; they just sort of "happened." The best part is
that I wasn't even expecting it--not this soon. It took me probably eight years to get to this point in Spanish, and
I've only had a year of Portuguese classes. Now I know that after Spanish Portuguese should be a walk in the park,
but I just couldn't believe it. I know I have a long way to go and that my journey will never truly end, but at least
for now I have won the small victory of basic fluency.
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5571 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 2 of 4 15 January 2010 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
It's a great feeling, isn't it? Savor the moment. Congratulations on your progress. :)
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6707 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 4 15 January 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged |
Congratulations. It must be the active version of the thing called an 'epiphany moment' on this forum, though I have never heard or seen thios expression anywhere else.
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ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 4 of 4 15 January 2010 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
Congratulations!
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