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Brazil
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Who're you kidding, of course it's going to be Uruguay. Followed by the disappearance of the entire Brazilian football team.
Blastoise Fortooate
Geographical!
Clover
neither simple, nor coherent.
It's a bit chilly here!
Today was supposed to be the first day of school but I missed it because I set my alarm for 6 which I forgot became 8 and so I was tarde but it was okay because my irmã Isa was sick and so she couldn't come anyway!
Then we had almoço and it was arroz(?) e feijodas e bistec e deliciosa. (... I know more spanish than portuguese okay and it gets the message across at any rate.) Then Isa e Mãe e eu walked around town for a bit and I had a chocolate cappucino type thing! (They said cappucino was "não café, é chocolate" and they lied; it was certo chocolate mas certo café too. Mas bom.)
Then we came back home and watched some movie I don't know the name of that involved space-bugs and the iron giant and Will Smith's filho in portuguese with portuguese subtitles. We don't have dinner until oito or later. I guess I'll ir a la escola amanha (amanhã? something) from 7:00 to 12:30. And they have three puppies! (I need to know the word for 'puppies (fem.)' because I have been saying 'puppies' a lot.) They bark a lot and get on the furniture but are cute. And there are /very noisy/ birds in the morning.
And um so tchau!
Today was supposed to be the first day of school but I missed it because I set my alarm for 6 which I forgot became 8 and so I was tarde but it was okay because my irmã Isa was sick and so she couldn't come anyway!
Then we had almoço and it was arroz(?) e feijodas e bistec e deliciosa. (... I know more spanish than portuguese okay and it gets the message across at any rate.) Then Isa e Mãe e eu walked around town for a bit and I had a chocolate cappucino type thing! (They said cappucino was "não café, é chocolate" and they lied; it was certo chocolate mas certo café too. Mas bom.)
Then we came back home and watched some movie I don't know the name of that involved space-bugs and the iron giant and Will Smith's filho in portuguese with portuguese subtitles. We don't have dinner until oito or later. I guess I'll ir a la escola amanha (amanhã? something) from 7:00 to 12:30. And they have three puppies! (I need to know the word for 'puppies (fem.)' because I have been saying 'puppies' a lot.) They bark a lot and get on the furniture but are cute. And there are /very noisy/ birds in the morning.
And um so tchau!
Blastoise Fortooate
Geographical!
Harlequin
Active member
I remember you were talking about doing this ages ago in #tcod, and I'm really glad to see you go through with it! It sounds like you're already enjoying it and having a great time there! :D I bet you're coming on leaps and bounds with your Portuguese, too, which is always a plus! One can never know too many languages.
I'm actually slightly jealous of you now because I would have loved to do something like this but I just don't have the time!
I like the pictures from the trip, too! Although some of the comments were a bit "o.o" especially the one about showers -- showing at least once a day is totally normal! Also, that visual dictionary sounds awesome. I sort of want to steal it.
I'm actually slightly jealous of you now because I would have loved to do something like this but I just don't have the time!
I like the pictures from the trip, too! Although some of the comments were a bit "o.o" especially the one about showers -- showing at least once a day is totally normal! Also, that visual dictionary sounds awesome. I sort of want to steal it.
Clover
neither simple, nor coherent.
Actually the bedspread changes like every week. That's another thing I was kind of surprised about... my sheets would be lucky to get changed like every month, haha... It goes along with something else: when the toilet got clogged, they called a plumber who was there within two hours. When a lightswitch stopped working, they called an electrician and it was fixed. In my place, that stuff would wait around until someone thought it was more trouble than it was worth to keep it around, and then they'd figure out how to fix it themselves. I don't think we've ever had a plumber or electrician come to our house.
Mãe told me to stop taking hot showers :( she's like, "what are you doing, don't you know it's freaking hot outside?" and I'm like "well yeah, but... it's showers. I mean." and she's like "well you're wasting energy :(" and I'm like "k :(" so.
THE BOOK IS SO TOTALLY MAGIC see below for details
Haha yeah, this's been a big part of my life since... February? Not quite 'ages', but nearly! I'm actually slightly bummed that my language doesn't seem to be leaping quite as far as it was in the first two weeks, but that's completely to be expected! I have the, like, most-used-daily words down, but I'm still nowhere near /anything/ approaching fluency. Or even conversational level, ehe.
There's this bit in a book I like, Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, where he goes to Brazil and he's like, "I spoke what I called 'Feynman's Portuguese', because it apparently wasn't actual Portuguese: I could clearly understand what I was saying, but no one else could understand me!" And I totally get that now. I can ask and answer simple questions, understand and reply to sentences if the guys speak slowly, but when I try to, like, tell an anecdote of something that happened before, or if someone (cough Mãe cough) rattles off a paragraph of things she expects me to do and finishes with "Entendeu?" ... it doesn't work. With the former, it seems like people who understand English can understand my Laura's Portuguese, but not so much those who don't, ehe. And the latter is just pretty irritating for everyone involved. :/
But I'm there! I'm golden!
That is like, nearly the top reason that I'm sticking around rn, is so I can learn another language. I freaking love languages, man. I'd like to be at least conversational in five languages before I turn twenty. (rn it looks like those'll be English, Portuguese, Spanish [mutual intelligibility ftw], Japanese, and Esperanto. [esperanto totally counts shush]) Next year I'll be off to community college... and then after that I'm looking into a handful of real colleges with good language programs. I'll probably major in something international relationsish, something where I can travel somewhere.
BUT HEY that has nothing to do with brazil, ehe! ... Man, what do you /do/ showering every day? It's probably not good to shampoo+condition your hair that often, not to mention you'd run out way easily; it's physically impossible to shave that often... idk man. I guess hygiene is awesome but there are limits, eh?
Dude okay you guys get the BONUS MATERIAL I didn't send to my parents:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8881/1001215i.jpg The reason behind this one should... be obvious. This is the view I am greeted with upon entering my/Junior's room. Yeah.
ANTIQUEDA: all you need is surt.
I also took some more pictures of the dictionary because omg I love it too you guys, so much. I mentioned to #tcod that this is the kind of book I would just spend hours poring over when I was like, six. (Not that I don't love it now, but I was a kind of obsessive kid.) Anyway:
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8104/1001218r.jpg ROOFS
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7641/1001216.jpg SEATS
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6650/1001217h.jpg SWIMMING AND /CURLING/, YOU GUYS the olympics' mijumaru equivalent: sad that no one loves him as much as his friends but happy because he still has people who love him. sort of.
I WILL TAKE MORE PICTURES OF THE MAGIC BOOK give me a subject or a page number gogogo
midnight, stop talking