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| JacobTM Groupie United States Joined 5601 days ago 56 posts - 67 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 10 17 March 2010 at 7:19am | IP Logged |
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Hey,
So I'm decent at Spanish. Not perfect, but more than good enough to be completely bored by learning the basics of Portuguese. I've given a listen to the Pimsleur Portugeuse stuff, and it does NOT take me 30 minutes to master a sentence, so I get bored very quickly. Anyone have any good tips for how to progress in Portuguese in my shoes? I've not been able to find any Spanish-to-Portuguese audio stuff besides a few videos on youtube. Any long-term plan besides going to Brazil? P.S. I'm interested in Brazilian Portuguese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| StueyM Newbie United Kingdom franticfrenchmissi&# Joined 5549 days ago 9 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 2 of 10 17 March 2010 at 9:30am | IP Logged |
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Well, there is the FSI course 'Spanish to Portuguese': http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Portugu ese
But FSI courses are notoriously dry... However, you'll probably learn a lot really quickly, so it might be worth checking out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Felidae Diglot Newbie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5410 days ago 28 posts - 34 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: French | Message 3 of 10 17 March 2010 at 7:14pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in the opposite situation. I do not want to learn right now, but I certainly want in the future. I believe Some fast-paced course focusing on usage, like assimil could do it. Also take a look here, and master it. Watch stuff in BP.
Pay attention to the 3 subjunctives instead of 2, the absence of "a" in the future with "Ir" -> Vou falar/Voy a hablar. As I'm not a Spanish speaker, I can't go any further. If you need a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, feel free to PM me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 10 18 March 2010 at 2:02am | IP Logged |
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Jacob, you may find forum member irishpolyglot's blog interesting, this is one of his latest posts on Portuguese
How to speak Portuguese as if you were from Rio 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JacobTM Groupie United States Joined 5601 days ago 56 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 10 22 March 2010 at 6:21am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Jeff, and although I found that blog VERY interesting, it didn't give me many practical tips about learning Portuguese. Rather, he had some specific information about speaking Portuguese like those from Rio, but that's far beyond where I am right now.
So anew, does anyone have any specific resources (preferably free, online ones) that can help me out? At this point I'm just doing Pimsleur but I can't help nod off after a while. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6855 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 6 of 10 22 March 2010 at 11:15am | IP Logged |
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Why don't you try listening-reading? Or at least Assimil? I found FSI to be too boring to be effective, but it seems to be designed specifically for people in your situation.
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| Julia A. Diglot Newbie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5355 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 | Message 7 of 10 31 March 2010 at 1:44pm | IP Logged |
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You can always try to meet with a native speaker at Skype and discuss where you really are with Portuguese. Technically, you shouldn't have many problems with vocabulary but grammar can be quite tricky... Fell free to PM me if you have any doubts, since I speak both languages, even though my Spanish isn't anywhere near flawless.
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| Miznia Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5354 days ago 37 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Cantonese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese | Message 8 of 10 01 April 2010 at 6:59pm | IP Logged |
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Sometimes I'll play Pimsleur at double speed :)
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