This is a fun experiment to indulge some wanderlust and give me a bit of an easy break from my German struggles. Where does Assimil get you with a new language when you already have an intermediate to high level in three related languages? I'm going to find out.
I'll be using Assimil's "Le Portugais." It has 100 lessons. My plan of attack is the following:
* One new lesson per day.
* Review each lesson four times, waiting a week between each review.
* Start "activating" the material of each lesson upon the fourth review.
My main focus right now is German and my ambitions with Portuguese are very modest. But thanks to my other Romance languages, I can already follow the general lines of what people are talking about on the radio, even if the details of what they are saying escape me, so I expect my progress to the level of basic conversation will be pretty rapid.
A few months of Portuguese
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Re: A few months of Portuguese
That's normally how it works with related languages - I've never studied much Portuguese, but with the bits and pieces I have I can get quite far. To the point where people will introduce me as "she speaks Portuguese".
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Is a girl.
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Re: A few months of Portuguese
Boa sorte!
Good luck with Portuguese, it's a wonderful language! Are you learning the European or the Brazilian variety?
Good luck with Portuguese, it's a wonderful language! Are you learning the European or the Brazilian variety?
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Josquin wrote:Boa sorte!
Good luck with Portuguese, it's a wonderful language! :) Are you learning the European or the Brazilian variety?
Thanks! I am starting out with the European variety.
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Re: A few months of Portuguese
One week of Le Portugais finished, right on schedule! So far it has been quite easy, as expected. I spend maybe fifteen to twenty minutes on the lesson, listening to it while reading a few times, then reading the notes. Tomorrow (lesson 8) I will start the review cycle.
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Week two done! Lessons 8-14 studied for the first time, lessons 1-7 reviewed for the first time. Still super easy and enjoyable.
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Re: A few months of Portuguese
I looked up "menino" (boy) in Wiktionary and found "o rapaz" as a synonym. I figured that the second word probably had common origins with French "rapace," Spanish "rapaz," and so on, and indeed it does: "From Old Portuguese rapaz, from Latin rapāx, rapācem (“who robs, plunders”), from rapio (“I grab”)."
Boys as predators and plunderers: now that's an interesting association!
Boys as predators and plunderers: now that's an interesting association!
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tastyonions wrote:I looked up "menino" (boy) in Wiktionary and found "o rapaz" as a synonym. I figured that the second word probably had common origins with French "rapace," Spanish "rapaz," and so on, and indeed it does: "From Old Portuguese rapaz, from Latin rapāx, rapācem (“who robs, plunders”), from rapio (“I grab”)."
Boys as predators and plunderers: now that's an interesting association!
Yes, and for girl there is "rapariga". Watch out though, as in Brazil that word means prostitute, not girl.
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Re: A few months of Portuguese
tastyonions wrote:I looked up "menino" (boy) in Wiktionary and found "o rapaz" as a synonym. I figured that the second word probably had common origins with French "rapace," Spanish "rapaz," and so on, and indeed it does: "From Old Portuguese rapaz, from Latin rapāx, rapācem (“who robs, plunders”), from rapio (“I grab”)."
Boys as predators and plunderers: now that's an interesting association!
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