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I downloaded the Kindle version of this. It is a REALLY REALLY good book (at least the first 10% has been so far).To get an overview of the country and its history, culture etc, The Portuguese by Barry Hatton (an English journalist who has lived in Portugal for 20+ years) is a good place to start.
Thi article was published in 2007. Portugal has improved a lot since then. It has a GDP per capita higher than Greece and every country of East Europe except Eslovenia.also - please consider the more 'recent' history as well, Salazar dictatorship, etc ... it still echoes and ripples through Portuguese life/conduct/memories.
Nostalgia for António de Oliveira Salazar divides the Portuguese
best wishes - bom caminho
I've been going through this, and it fills in some really good gaps. Great book!We found this a handy little book. Bought a copy of it, and brought it along to VNdB for friends and relatives who visit!
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My <ten words in> Portuguese sounds more like Russian . . . I'm sure that's a dialect thing . . .The continental Portuguese is hard to understand because of the dialects as is the Castillano in Spain.
The best and fastest way to learn Portuguese is the Brazilean way of the language as is the Latin American Spanish.
Brazilean Portuguese -I allways call it Samba Portuguese - is easier to understand and sounds like music.
I always thought the same about Portuguese. I mentioned it to a cousin of mine who had majored in the Slavic languages in university (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, etc.) and he laughed. He said whenever he hears people speaking what sounds like a Slavic language but he can't understand a word, he knows it is Portuguese. I think it is all of the palatalization.My <ten words in> Portuguese sounds more like Russian . . . I'm sure that's a dialect thing . . .
This is exactly true! Before I came to Portugal, I had some basic Spanish, and I'd studied French a lot, and I found the written Portuguese pretty easy to decipher. But the speech! I was dumbfounded at how "Un-Latin" the language sounded. A difficult language to master. Luckily the locals are extremely forgiving of your most pathetic attempts!I always thought the same about Portuguese. I mentioned it to a cousin of mine who had majored in the Slavic languages in university (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, etc.) and he laughed. He said whenever he hears people speaking what sounds like a Slavic language but he can't understand a word, he knows it is Portuguese. I think it is all of the palatalization.
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