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[DieAntwoord]

Hello Brazilgaf. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in the next year or so. Brasília, to be exact.

What's the best way for someone whose spoken nothing but English for the past 25 years to learn Portuguese? Or at the very least, start.

 

[Tiu Neo]

Hello Brazilgaf. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in the next year or so. Brasília, to be exact.

What's the best way for someone whose spoken nothing but English for the past 25 years to learn Portuguese? Or at the very least, start.

I think your best bet would be asking a non-native speaker, since most of us probably knew portuguese since before we can remember.

Maybe CorvoSol can help you better with that? Not sure if he still lurks here often, but you could try sending a PM to him.

 

[t0rment]

Hello Brazilgaf. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in the next year or so. Brasília, to be exact.

What's the best way for someone whose spoken nothing but English for the past 25 years to learn Portuguese? Or at the very least, start.

First of all, my condolences, i don't think Brasília is a very good city. For portuguese there's duolingo, i've used for another languages and it can be good for a starting point.
www.duolingo.com

 

[Platy]

Hello Brazilgaf. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in the next year or so. Brasília, to be exact.

What's the best way for someone whose spoken nothing but English for the past 25 years to learn Portuguese? Or at the very least, start.

WHYYYYYY ?


Also, your best option is probably an actual language teacher in your city

 

[mantidor]

First of all, my condolences, i don't think Brasília is a very good city.

Haha poor Brasilia. Of course, if your career has anything to do with government or law it is the place to be, but outside those the city doesn't offer much.

Duolingo is a good advice just to start, but you are going to require some actual classes down the line.

 

[Dr. Buni]

Hello Brazilgaf. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in the next year or so. Brasília, to be exact.

why

 

[dokish]

Hello Brazilgaf. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in the next year or so. Brasília, to be exact.

Why would you live there?

 

[LuuKyK]

I am laughing so much at the reactions over the Brasilia post. lol

Poor guy will now be worried to move there. Dont dude. Its a nice city overall, its just... really boring I guess.

 

[Supaidaman]

Brasilia is an ok place, by the posts above one would believe that it is one of the worst cities in the country :v

But, as LuuKyK said, it's "boring" . There's not a whole lot to do there but it's certainly not a bad place to live.

As for learning portuguese, I have no clue besides duolingo. Maybe you should look into a course in a place near to you?

 

[DD]

Hello Brazilgaf. I'm planning on moving to Brazil in the next year or so. Brasília, to be exact.

What's the best way for someone whose spoken nothing but English for the past 25 years to learn Portuguese? Or at the very least, start.

I've found this on Google: http://www.brasiliaemdestaque.com.br/unb-tem-curso-de-portugues-para-estrangeiros/

Maybe it can help.

 

[bishopp35]

I live in Brasilia and if you have any questions just ask me. The deal with Brasilia is that it has a “small town” feeling to it: It is a great place to retire or raise kids but I personally get absolutely bored in here.

 

[Platy]

Brasilia is boring, dry, hot and everything is expensive ..... Rio sux but at least it has some pretty parts and has lots of things to do =P

 

[Unai]

Haha poor Brasilia. Of course, if your career has anything to do with government or law it is the place to be, but outside those the city doesn't offer much.

Duolingo is a good advice just to start, but you are going to require some actual classes down the line.

It's good if you work with software development too.

 

[DieAntwoord]

why

Work. And because Brazil is kind of an emerging country and I want a piece of that action and I'm looking into the oil field. Where I work I have A LOT of Brazillian clientele (Lol retail sales, but damn for the amount of work I do I average 50-60k here at MC) who work various jobs here in Houston.

Brasilia as I have a friend who works for the Instituto Brasileiro de Turismo who'd be willing to help me assimilate into the country for a while. Maybe not stay IN Brazilia, but it would be a good starting point.


And I love duolingo, it's a fantastic starting point. My main problem is that when I watch someone learn the language (Such as when I taught someone a lot of colloquialisms of American English) from someone who speaks it, they pick up on it a lot easier.

 

[t0rment]

Work. And because Brazil is kind of an emerging country and I want a piece of that action and I'm looking into the oil field. Where I work I have A LOT of Brazillian clientele (Lol retail sales, but damn for the amount of work I do I average 50-60k here at MC) who work various jobs here in Houston.

Brasilia as I have a friend who works for the Instituto Brasileiro de Turismo who'd be willing to help me assimilate into the country for a while. Maybe not stay IN Brazilia, but it would be a good starting point.


And I love duolingo, it's a fantastic starting point. My main problem is that when I watch someone learn the language (Such as when I taught someone a lot of colloquialisms of American English) from someone who speaks it, they pick up on it a lot easier.

just a little fyi that you probably already know: there's no oil industry in brasilia.

 

[Platy]

Yeah ... for oil go to someplace like Rio de Janeiro.

Rmember that if you are going to move from Brasilia to Rio you will probably not be able to bring most of your eletronics since Rio is 220volts


And talking about Rio ... Anyone knows a good game shop with a cheap Mario kart 8 ? =P

 

[t0rment]

Yeah ... for oil go to someplace like Rio de Janeiro.

Rmember that if you are going to move from Brasilia to Rio you will probably not be able to bring most of your eletronics since Rio is 220volts


And talking about Rio ... Anyone knows a good game shop with a cheap Mario kart 8 ? =P

Rio is 110v. And for game stores with good prices in Rio go in this site http://boadica.com.br/pesquisa/multi_playstation , there's a lot of games listings.

 

[mantidor]

Yeah ... for oil go to someplace like Rio de Janeiro.

Rmember that if you are going to move from Brasilia to Rio you will probably not be able to bring most of your eletronics since Rio is 220volts


And talking about Rio ... Anyone knows a good game shop with a cheap Mario kart 8 ? =P

The cheapest I found was in Uruguaiana, but I got there through boa dica.

Still, the download promo worked much better for me, lets hope Nintendo does not do something stupid like IP blocking in the future D:

 

[Mobius 1]

And I love duolingo, it's a fantastic starting point. My main problem is that when I watch someone learn the language (Such as when I taught someone a lot of colloquialisms of American English) from someone who speaks it, they pick up on it a lot easier.

Just dive in. People will help you out. There is no tool in the world that will teach you the insane flexibility of the portuguese language.

 

[Kansoku]

You can use lang-8.com
There native speakers can correct whatever you write.

 

[Shinriji]

Tem direto em New York e na Australia que eu saiba. Mas por aqui acho q nao rola mesmo. lol

Podemos começar então. Se tiver gente interessada do Rio em um encontro GAF, mande PM que podemos organizar alguma coisa.

 

[Shizuka]

If only Brazil wasn't such a huge country, it'd be way easier for us to settle on a location for meetings.

 

[Dio Brando]

Gente, estou tendo uns problemas com minha internet, e gostaria de saber se alguem passou por algo parecido:
Minha internet é a Net, e um roteador dela(o Thomson DWG874b) é conhecido por ter problemas com alguns jogos. No meu caso especifico, Hearthstone, em que não consigo entrar em matches de jeito nenhum. roleta roda até o jogo dizer que desconectou.
Pelo que entendi, a melhor solução é ligar pra Net e explicar o problema, pra então eles trocarem o roteador. Gostaria então de saber se caso alguem passou por isso, como lidou na ligação, se obteve sucesso, etc
Obrigado desde já

 

[Zeroth]

Gente, estou tendo uns problemas com minha internet, e gostaria de saber se alguem passou por algo parecido:
Minha internet é a Net, e um roteador dela(o Thomson DWG874b) é conhecido por ter problemas com alguns jogos. No meu caso especifico, Hearthstone, em que não consigo entrar em matches de jeito nenhum. roleta roda até o jogo dizer que desconectou.
Pelo que entendi, a melhor solução é ligar pra Net e explicar o problema, pra então eles trocarem o roteador. Gostaria então de saber se caso alguem passou por isso, como lidou na ligação, se obteve sucesso, etc
Obrigado desde já

É bem tranquilo, eles trocaram o meu por outro a meu pedido durante uma visita técnica (eu queria um modelo com mais entradas ethernet) e nem cobraram por ele, mas é possível que eles cobrem pela visita técnica em si.

 

[Shizuka]

Passei na primeira fase do Exame da Ordem de ontem. Primeiro exame que faço, acabei de entrar no nono semestre. Mais uma aprovação e já posso tirar um peso das costas.

 

[vdlow]

Passei na primeira fase do Exame da Ordem de ontem. Primeiro exame que faço, acabei de entrar no nono semestre. Mais uma aprovação e já posso tirar um peso das costas.

 

[maouvin]

Passei na primeira fase do Exame da Ordem de ontem. Primeiro exame que faço, acabei de entrar no nono semestre. Mais uma aprovação e já posso tirar um peso das costas.

Cheers!

 

[LuuKyK]

Passei na primeira fase do Exame da Ordem de ontem. Primeiro exame que faço, acabei de entrar no nono semestre. Mais uma aprovação e já posso tirar um peso das costas.

Parabéns Shizuka! Faço o meu daqui a dois semestres. :X Mas já to me batendo pra encontrar um tema pra TCC então nem quero saber o quão estressante será mais pra frente com tudo isso acumulando.

 

[Shizuka]

Obrigado, pessoal!

Parabéns Shizuka! Faço o meu daqui a dois semestres. :X Mas já to me batendo pra encontrar um tema pra TCC então nem quero saber o quão estressante será mais pra frente com tudo isso acumulando.

Depende muito da sua preparação e da sua faculdade. Vale a pena se preparar de todas maneiras possíveis, como cursinho, livros e revisões.

By the way, can we keep speaking portuguese here or is there some rule that we have to speak english at all times?

 

[Platy]

Parabéns !!!!

Personally I like to speak here in English for basically two reasons :

1) people from other places that want to know more can understand

2) it feels kinda weird to post on GAF in Portuguese

 

[Shinriji]

Obrigado, pessoal!



Depende muito da sua preparação e da sua faculdade. Vale a pena se preparar de todas maneiras possíveis, como cursinho, livros e revisões.

By the way, can we keep speaking portuguese here or is there some rule that we have to speak english at all times?

Os tópicos da França e Alemanha são quase todos falados nas línguas nativas. No TOS não tem nada falando sobre isso.

 

[maouvin]

By the way, can we keep speaking portuguese here or is there some rule that we have to speak english at all times?

Começamos a usar português porque alguns estrangeiros queriam ajuda pra praticar a língua, daí aqui estamos nós.

Nos ToS tem isso:

Though NeoGAF is an international forum, discussion is to be held in English unless otherwise designated.

mas acredito que os tópicos de países têm passe livre quanto a isso.

 

[LuuKyK]

Although I obviously dont believe its the case in here, I understand that rule for some extreme cases. I cant imagine it being easy for the mods to control if people are saying something offensive or not in so many different languages. So yeah, I think its fine to speak in portugues sometimes, but certainly not all the time.

 

[vdlow]

Parabéns !!!!

Personally I like to speak here in English for basically two reasons :

1) people from other places that want to know more can understand

2) it feels kinda weird to post on GAF in Portuguese

I still acho que the best thing a fazer é mix the two idiomas.

 

[Ezalc]

I only use english in this thread because one my portuguese still sucks, two this isn't a brazilian forum so I believe that people should write in English, and three I feel like if there's anybody who isn't brazilian who wants to come into the thread that everybody speaking in portuguese would put them off a bit from participating.

 

[maouvin]

http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/2014/not...campos-estava-no-aviao-que-caiu-em-santos.htm

Cacete.

 

[Tiu Neo]

http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/2014/not...campos-estava-no-aviao-que-caiu-em-santos.htm

Cacete.

Putz. Eu estava considerando votar nele (mais por não votar para Dilma, que não faço de maneira alguma, e evitar Aécio, que também não me agrada tanto...)

 

[bishopp35]

http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/2014/not...campos-estava-no-aviao-que-caiu-em-santos.htm

Cacete.

RIP.

Uma pena que isso tenha acontecido porque ele arejava a disputa entre PT e PSDB . Bizarramente ele morreu no mesmo dia do avô dele (Miguel Arraes).

 

[Platy]

Putz .. que foda =/

E ele tinha 5 filhos ... que triste para a familia.

Putz. Eu estava considerando votar nele (mais por não votar para Dilma, que não faço de maneira alguma, e evitar Aécio, que também não me agrada tanto...)

O problema dele é a Marina, que deve ser a pior opção de voto .... se ele se junta com ela coisa boa não ia sair.

 

[Tiu Neo]

Putz .. que foda =/

E ele tinha 5 filhos ... que triste para a familia.



O problema dele é a Marina, que deve ser a pior opção de voto .... se ele se junta com ela coisa boa não ia sair.

Pois é, também não sou fã da Marina.

Na verdade, estava pensando em achar um candidato menos pior, mas nessa eleição tá triste o negócio... E aqui no Paraná, tá pior ainda, ficamos entre o incompetente de situação, a carrasca do estado, ou o velho maluco que já quase fodeu tudo algumas vezes...

 

[Platy]

Pois é, também não sou fã da Marina.

Na verdade, estava pensando em achar um candidato menos pior, mas nessa eleição tá triste o negócio... E aqui no Paraná, tá pior ainda, ficamos entre o incompetente de situação, a carrasca do estado, ou o velho maluco que já quase fodeu tudo algumas vezes...

Tem candidato bom .... o foda é que é aqueles partidos menores que nunca vai ter chance =/

Tem uns 2 candidatos a president que são a favor da legalização da maconha, aborto e contra o ensino religioso obrigatorio por exemplo

 

[Tiu Neo]

Tem candidato bom .... o foda é que é aqueles partidos menores que nunca vai ter chance =/

Tem uns 2 candidatos a president que são a favor da legalização da maconha, aborto e contra o ensino religioso obrigatorio por exemplo

Sim, porém, como você falou, nunca vai ter chance. Triste que só o presidente também não vai fazer diferença, enquanto boa parte dos políticos eleitos ainda for de certas bancadas por aí...

 

[Vivalaraza]

Hello Brazil GAF! I am coming to visit your wonderful country over Christmas and the New Year. Travelling with 2 friends and hope to spend 3 weeks seeing Rio, The Amazon and Iguassu - and potentially São Paolo.

I have so many questions and plenty of things to figure out but first id like to know.

1 - Is 3 weeks "enough" to see these places? We plan to spend 5 days in Rio, a week at the Amazon/Manaus, 3 at Iguassu and 2/3 days in São Paolo.
2 - Are we missing something? We are not too hung up over São Paolo. Should we be? Where else is worth going to?
3 - Do domestic flight prices stay steady? We are unsure whether to book now or much closer to the time when our itinerary might be clearer.

 

[Tiu Neo]

Hello Brazil GAF! I am coming to visit your wonderful country over Christmas and the New Year. Travelling with 2 friends and hope to spend 3 weeks seeing Rio, The Amazon and Iguassu - and potentially São Paolo.

I have so many questions and plenty of things to figure out but first id like to know.

1 - Is 3 weeks "enough" to see these places? We plan to spend 5 days in Rio, a week at the Amazon/Manaus, 3 at Iguassu and 2/3 days in São Paolo.
2 - Are we missing something? We are not too hung up over São Paolo. Should we be? Where else is worth going to?
3 - Do domestic flight prices stay steady? We are unsure whether to book now or much closer to the time when our itinerary might be clearer.

Never been to Manaus, so can't say if a week is enough. For the others, those days seem ok to me. São Paulo is nice, but I think the others are more worthwhile for a tourist.

The flight prices change a lot. Normally, the closer the date, higher the price.

 

[Platy]

Sim, porém, como você falou, nunca vai ter chance. Triste que só o presidente também não vai fazer diferença, enquanto boa parte dos políticos eleitos ainda for de certas bancadas por aí...

Se todo mundo que fala que não votaria em alguem por que ele não tem chances votasse o candidato teria chances

 

[Tiu Neo]

Se todo mundo que fala que não votaria em alguem por que ele não tem chances votasse o candidato teria chances

...o que você falou faz todo sentido. Inclusive, foi o que aconteceu aqui em Curitiba. O atual prefeito ganhou as eleições... depois de ficar em um terceiro lugar distante em todas as pesquisas.

Let's see those other candidates...

 

[WeaponKnight]

I think 3 days is enough for Iguaçu. I was there in June for 2 days and managed to visit the Falls and Itaipu Dam while shopping in Paraguay and Argentina. You're probably not going there to shop in Paraguay, so you'll have plenty of time to visit other places

 

[mantidor]

Hello Brazil GAF! I am coming to visit your wonderful country over Christmas and the New Year. Travelling with 2 friends and hope to spend 3 weeks seeing Rio, The Amazon and Iguassu - and potentially São Paolo.

I have so many questions and plenty of things to figure out but first id like to know.

1 - Is 3 weeks "enough" to see these places? We plan to spend 5 days in Rio, a week at the Amazon/Manaus, 3 at Iguassu and 2/3 days in São Paolo.
2 - Are we missing something? We are not too hung up over São Paolo. Should we be? Where else is worth going to?
3 - Do domestic flight prices stay steady? We are unsure whether to book now or much closer to the time when our itinerary might be clearer.

Three days for Iguazu seems ok. A friend has to go there frequently and recommended me that three days were enough. That is if you can freely cross borders between the 3 countries, one day each is more than enough while you stay at Foz visiting the three neighboring towns doesn't take more than an hour. Again, Mercosur nationals can do this easily, I don't know the details for other nationalities.

I think Rio's time is a bit short and Manaus a bit long, but I do not know Manaus so maybe it has more things to do than what I imagine.

São Paulo however is too short I would think. The city is enormous and you wouldn't really get to know it well in just 2 days. It might be better to extend the time of the other locations thsn go all the way to Sao Paulo just to check it out a bit. Depends on what you guys like.

Flights are very expensive close to New Year, specially in Rio, so I think is better to plan in advance, depends on your budget of course.

 

[Unai]

I live in Brazil and I don't really see the point in visiting São Paulo outside of business reasons. Am I missing something?

 

[mantidor]

I live in Brazil and I don't really see the point in visiting São Paulo outside of business reasons. Am I missing something?

I'll be honest, I was there for just a day and seemed boring as hell, but I also thought I simply didn't had enough time to see everything. It's one of the biggest cities in the world, is there seriously so little to see in it?