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| blauw Tetraglot Groupie Belgium Joined 5371 days ago 46 posts - 111 votes  Speaks: English, Flemish*, French, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 10 11 May 2010 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, fellow language enthusiasts!
I'm starting to learn European Portuguese through self-study. Unfortunately, there is very little audio material available to me where I live (I'm in Belgium right now), and YouTube seems to offer mostly Brazilian Portuguese as well. It's not that I mind listening to Brazilian Portuguese so much as I'd like to develop a feel for the European prosody. Basically, I was wondering if anyone might be able to point me towards an online source of spoken European Portuguese? Or anybody from Belgium who knows where I can find Portuguese audiobooks or things like that? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Edited by blauw on 11 May 2010 at 2:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blauw Tetraglot Groupie Belgium Joined 5371 days ago 46 posts - 111 votes Speaks: English, Flemish*, French, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 10 11 May 2010 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, I forgot to ask - what authors (Brazilian or European) would you recommend for a beginner?
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| luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5332 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical) | Message 3 of 10 11 May 2010 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Portuguese Public Radio and Television:
http://www.rtp.pt/ 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| blauw Tetraglot Groupie Belgium Joined 5371 days ago 46 posts - 111 votes Speaks: English, Flemish*, French, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 10 11 May 2010 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you, Luhmann!
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| NativeLanguage Octoglot Groupie United States nativlang.com Joined 5337 days ago 52 posts - 110 votes Speaks: French, Spanish, English*, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Portuguese, Catalan Studies: Japanese, Mayan languages, Irish | Message 5 of 10 11 May 2010 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Reading recommendations will depend on your personal preferences and what level you're at in regards to Portuguese. I recommend finding Portuguese translations of books you already know you love (do the same for movies, too). You can also read from writers and poets that you know you like. There are also many parallel texts (Portuguese on one page, English on opposite) if you want to go that route. Also, instruction manuals & how-to books are a good way to start making sense of longer texts AND learn something you needed to learn anyhow.
Acclaimed authors as diverse as Lispector or Coelho or Pessoa aren't hard to start reading. They're certainly easier than Camões (the equivalent of starting w/ Shakespeare). In any case, though, getting through their works isn't a beginner's task. How often are you doing things to smooth the learning curve? Reading webpages (at least starting with forums and wikipedia and the news) and doing web searches in Portuguese? That's my primary recommendation for starting out reading Portuguese, to integrate it into your natural reading and writing routine. As for learning European Portuguese, I have a series of free online Portuguese lessons that cover both Brazilian and Continental Portuguese (including audio files with both variants). It might be useful for you while you look for other audio sources. http://www.nativlang.com/po/ 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Calro2 Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6739 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, French | Message 6 of 10 13 May 2010 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a very good Portuguese site with lots of videos and word-for-word transcripts on Portuguese culture, news, technology, etc.
http://www.tvciencia.pt/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6060 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 10 14 May 2010 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||
Some other suggestions: SIC: http://sic.sapo.pt/online/homepage TVI: http://www.tvi.iol.pt/index.html Edited by Luso on 14 May 2010 at 1:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blauw Tetraglot Groupie Belgium Joined 5371 days ago 46 posts - 111 votes Speaks: English, Flemish*, French, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 10 26 May 2010 at 2:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you very much, all of you! Sorry about the late reply, I don't get online much. But I do appreciate your help. :-)
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