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I was thinking of living in Brazil for a while, but I'm an Amerifag and I don't know any Portuguese (I know a tiny bit of Spanish though). Does anyone know Portuguese? Is it hard to learn?
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
Spanish languages (especially Galego) aren't all that different from Portuguese - at least the Portuguese (and Brazilians) don't have much difficulty in understanding most Catalan words.

I've been told Brazilians have an easier to pronounce accent.

Judging from all the foreigners I meet, asking for directions in my native language (it's actually disappointing, considering my English is very good), it must be an easy language to learn.

From my experience, knowing Portuguese makes Spanish, Italian and French very easy to learn.
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YES! THIS IS MY THREAD! Not OP of course, but so fitting!

Ok I started learning portuguese in June 2006.

At first I was just chatting with some portuguese people, then I got the "Rosetta Stone" learning program for portuguese. It was a great help. It teaches you the basics and how to pronounce things and they have some great lessons there where you can practice your hearing and reading comprehension.

I then took up an evening course at a nearby education centre (since September 2007) and that helped my reading comprehension a lot! But mostly I learnt it by speaking it every day with people from Brazil and talking with them over Skype. It helped me to hear them and practice pronouncing it myself. Don't be afraid to say something wrong, it's important so you learn how to say it!

I also have some books but I don't have the time to read them. Being very similar to Spanish and the romanic language area, it is very easy to understand words from the way they are written and assume their meaning. For instance "dancar" means "to dance". Easy huh?!

Lastly it's all repetition though! Speak it a lot, read up, practice a lot and in no time você falará português! :D

Anymore questions, I will be glad to answer!
>> Anonymous
>>15846
Are you also American?
I think I'll look into getting the Rosetta stone program for myself. I don't know any Brazilian people though so finding some to talk to will be tough. Classes are also a possibility but that might be more money than I'm willing to spend. Thanks for helping anyway
>> Anonymous
>>15850
I am a Canadian living in Germany. They have a great education centre here nearby they teach English, Spanish, Latin, Greek, German, Italian, French, Russian etc.etc. My course "only" cost €99.

Just use Skype if you want to talk to people from Brazil! Definitely easier and cheaper! Or go out and find brazilians, which is probably harder though, as you said.
>> Anonymous
>>15852
So how good of a grasp would you say you have on the language at this point?
>> Anonymous
>>15855
Well I can talk pretty well with people now. More complicated sentences are hard. It's still pretty basic. I can talk to people normally though and they understand me. I can talk about the weather or how they are and my opinion, but I wouldn't be able to write an essay and my pronounciation is still lacking, but that comes along with practice. ;)
>> Anonymous
>>15852
Humboldt Universität by any chance?
>> Anonymous
>>15902
Ne, Volkshochschule in Wiesbaden.
>> Anonymous
>>15917
Oh because I was just there on Wednesday and they teach every language on Earth. It's really amazing. Fucking cold in Berlin though.
>> Anonymous
i'm a brazilian :3
>> Anonymous
>>15991
I'm so sorry for you.