A few months of Portuguese

[tastyonions]

Today marks three successful weeks of my routine with Assimil's Le Portuguais.

Lessons seen three times: 1-7
Lessons seen twice: 8-14
Lessons seen once: 15-21

Tomorrow I will start with some activation.

[tastyonions]

http://desciclopedia.org/wiki/Sotaque_de_Portugal

O sotaque de Portugal é um sotaque comprovadamente mineiro de Belrizont devido ao hábito de não falarem a maioria das vogais as quais curiosamente não se esquecem de escrever em textos de prosa. Como exemplo a frase em prosa "se cá nevasse fazia-se cá ski", pronuncia-se "scá nváss fazia scá ski"; a frase "Setembro chove" pronuncia-se "stembrchov"; e a frase "A vida é uma sucessiva sucessão de sucessões que se sucedem sucessivamente, sem suceder o sucesso" pronuncia-se "â vid'é umâ súçssivâ suçssão d'suçssões qsscédãe suçssivamente, sãe suçder o sucesso". Facto comprovado faz com que o português de Portugal esteja em risco de expulsão como membro das línguas românicas o que não aconteceu até à data por escreverem ainda com sotaque romance. No entanto, o próximo acordo ortográfico que tem na agenda propor a eliminação das vogais obsoletas, poderá fazer com que o português de Portugal mude de ramo linguístico.

That's exactly one of the things I like about Portuguese from Portugal, the way so many vowels disappear and it turns into a delicious consonant soup.

Learned a few color words that were different than expected today:
preto (black)
cinza (gray) (like ES "ceniza")
vermelho (red) (like EN "vermilion")

[tastyonions]

Four successful weeks of Le Portugais!

Lessons seen four times: 1-7
Lessons seen three times: 8-14
Lessons seen twice: 15-21
Lessons seen once: 22-28

I was a bit disappointed to discover that there was no Portuguese meetup near me. Maybe once I finish up with Assimil I can start one myself?

[tastyonions]

I missed a lesson yesterday, but I made up for it by doing two today, one in the morning and one this afternoon. Still on track! Today marks my thirty-fifth day of Le Portugais.

Lessons seen four times: 1-14
Lessons seen three times: 15-21
Lessons seen twice: 22-28
Lessons seen once: 29-35

Assimil is my only consistent exposure to the language, but I do tune into Portuguese radio or look at news sites from time to time. My understanding of those is increasing.

I am going to Italy on the 15th and coming back on the 24th, so I plan to transfer the Assimil MP3s to my phone before then. This will probably be my last "regularly scheduled Saturday Portuguese update" before the 30th.

[tastyonions]

So I have missed maybe five or six days of lessons so far, but I am still continuing fairly steadily. Right now I am on lesson 61.

Oh, and I started a Portuguese meetup! Nine people are signed up to go to the first one, which takes place tomorrow.

I had an italki lesson this morning, which was my first time ever speaking the language to anyone. I figured that I should at least speak it once before trying to run a meetup in it.

[tastyonions]

Oh, and I started a Portuguese meetup! Nine people are signed up to go to the first one, which takes place tomorrow.

The first meetup went great! We had ten people total: one native from Portugal, two experienced heritage speakers, and the rest with widely varying levels.

[DaveBee]

Oh, and I started a Portuguese meetup! Nine people are signed up to go to the first one, which takes place tomorrow.

The first meetup went great! We had ten people total: one native from Portugal, two experienced heritage speakers, and the rest with widely varying levels.

How was your portuguese?

[tastyonions]

How was your portuguese?

I was somewhere in the middle of the pack in terms of ability. Definitely some interference from Spanish and I had to rephrase things to make my point clearer a number of times, but that's to be expected for my second time speaking the language.