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Hi, I'm Alexandre from Brazil. My greatest passion is learning. I'm a recent undergraduated psychologist with focus on education. My main interests are how can we learn more effectively, how can we learn how to learn and how to keep motivation to keep going even when the task gets hard or "boring". I have learned english by myself from the internet and I started finding curious how some people perceived this as something almost impossible, while to me it was natural and fun. So I cultivated the passion to help others to learn how to learn. I'm also an artist, for at least 6 years I was a drawing teacher with students of all ages, but mostly children between 7 to 12. I'm also an amateur chess player and again I have been a chess teacher and coach for children and adolescents for at least 3 years, working with a class and individually. As you can see, I have a thing for subjects where you have to learn forever. I think the ability to consciously focus on something we want to learn is the one thing that makes us humans. Learning is joy, learning is fun and it's necessary in order to one develop their full potential. Recently I'm adding languages to the list of things I teach. I was always passionate about learning languages, and I love to teach, so now I started to informally teach english for brazilians and portuguese(br) as a second language. I would be glad to help you, just contact me!
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    This is the text of a short comic book of mine I'm trying to translate to english 1. The banality of everyday life. / People talk with each other, without really care for one another./ Talking is just an excuse to talk about yourself. I hear people. /My earphones are broken./ I remember the reason why I use then. every word they say seems uninteresting./ I can’t pretend that I’m like then. The problem is that being like this it’s harder to get a girlfriend. At my age, if you don’t have a girlfriend or make out with everyone, they treat you like a loser. I hope to survive high school. hey, that old man! /He caught the same wagon that I did every single day last week./ and I was late twice, and once I was early… / Would it be a coincidence? Next page, character one looks surprised. What?? The old man, again? But I saw him entering another wagon So, that bastard… /Is really following me? Character two 2.No, I’m not following you. 1. What? How did you….or rather, who are you? I already have seen you travelling on the same wagon as me. 2: Yes, indeed. We’ve been close the last month. (Thinking) 1:The last month? I thought it was just last week.. 2: But I wasn’t following you./I was waiting for the right moment. 2. Some important thing happens just in very specific moments. / The day you met your best friend is a specific day./ Or when you finally get your dream job…or when you met the love of your life,Today ,is the day for you to meet me. 1.(serious) who are you? 2. It’s a good question, but.../ it’s not the right one. / The right question would be: what can I do for you? 1. What? 2. There it is./ Before I answer, I want you to see something important. /THIS. 1. a…ring? 2: brilliant, yes, it is a ring. /but it is not an ordinary ring. 1. It is gonna make me invisible? 2. Way better than that. Lets say it is gonna make you…lucky. 1.Oh, cool… 2.Of course you think I’m crazy, but what if right now a very beautiful girl walks in through that door. Walks in a very beautiful girl in the exact moment. Character one looks amazed. 1. so beautiful… 1.You may resume, what were you saying? 2.Finally I got your attention. / That girl is pretty cute, isn’t it?/ Usually you would be open-mouthed, would follow her with your eyes and… would be deadly paralyzed, is that correct? 2. Try putting the ring. Silence for a moment. 1. Nothing to lose… (he puts the ring)1. what now?Wow!/ It is strange this sensation… I feel like having a chance. 2. And you have it./ Now just go talk to her. 1. I was already going to.
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    Vou tentar outra vez: O armário

    O armário fica perto da cozinha. Neste armário há uma esfregona, uma vassoura, um pano de pó, um ferro-de-engomar, e uma tábua de passar a ferro. E antes da porta, há também um aspirador cinzento. Quando faço os trabalhos domésticos, abro o armário e escolho o meu equipamento! (ou, "os meus equipamentos")


    Ótimo texto, continue o bom trabalho! 

    Obs: Sei que você está aprendendo o "português de Portugal", mas você sabe que atualmente estamos em um período de transição para um acordo ortográfico do português escrito? Muitas das diferenças de escrita entre o Português de Portugal e o do Brasil estão prestes a cair, dê uma pesquisada sobre o assunto. É claro que expressões regionais e o sotaque sempre vão existir, mas talvez isso seja similar às diferenças entre inglês norte americano e inglês britânico para nós- no fundo, tudo é inglês :)  Abraço


    Abraços!

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    psychology Hello! I have to write something in order to continue improving my writing. The feedback received is being very helpful and I feel that everyday I'm becoming a little bit better at english. So, I decided to talk about a subject that became a huge part of my life: psychology. For almost four years I'm a psychology student here in Brazil. In these years I've been through tough moments, it's not an easy course, you have a to do a lot of reading and writing, besides oral presentations. I had also several disappointments right in the beggining of the course: the teachers, who were psychologists, were just like normal teachers that I had had before. I was expecting people who knew how to motivate students without being aggressive or without using threats. Above all, I was expecting people who cares for the students, who could understand that we are not machines, that sometimes we feel bad, that we feel pressure that came from all the sides. I did not find even one teacher like I was expeting, maybe I was expeting too much :D I probably made already a lot of mistakes in this text, so I'm stopping for now. Thanks for reading, thanks in advance for any feedback!
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    Malvado

    Então eu estava batendo papo com uma brasileira duas horas atrás num site e estava indo bem, quando ela perguntou-me se eu tinha Facebook. "Sim, tenho" eu disse e ela obviamente me pediu dá-lho para que lhe passasse (é um pouco esquisito usar "dar" aqui, usamos muito "passar" ex: passa aí seu facebook pra mim. "dar" tem uma conotação de que de fato você vai dar algo pra pessoa. Não é erro, só soaria estranho)Mas disse a ela que não iria fazer isso, porque acho que é perigoso passá-lo a estranhos pela rede. Por isso, sempre espero por um certo tempo antes de fazer isso, para (não estava errado, mas assim parece que as frases se conectam melhor)   assegurar que posso acreditar na pessoa.

    Porém, ela desconfiou que eu não era uma pessoa de verdade. Ela disse que não era possível eu falar português bem, só brasileiros podem fazer isso. Assim, achou que eu era brasileiro. Depois disso, fiquei ofendido e feliz ao mesmo tempo. Feliz porque ela achou que meu português era bom e ofendido porque achou que eu era uma pessoa de mentira (usamos, pelo menos aqueles que acessam a internet, a expressão "perfil fake", em inglês mesmo). Para provar que não era brasileiro, eu pedi que ela me passasse seu o Skype (poderia ser também "eu lhe pedi que me passesse seu skype"- muito mais formal). Adicionei-a no Skype e conversamos. Depois disso ela pediu desculpes por achar que eu estava fingindo saber como falar em inglês. Contudo, agora eu a odiava-a e a apaguei-a por ter me julgado sem me conhecer.

    N.B (o que quer dizer N.B?) Obs (de observação) ou p.s (de post scriptum - latim, depois do texto): Ainda a odeio.

     

    (existe na gramática do português umas coisas feias que se chamam próclise, mesóclise e ênclise- você tem utilizado indiscriminadamente a ênclise, por exemplo em "odiava-a", "apaguei-a". Só se utiliza essa forma, como regra geral, ao se iniciar uma frase. Ex: Odiava-a, por isso a deletei do meu skype.- perceba que eu disse "por isso a deletei", em vez de "deletei-a". No meio da frase, se utiliza a próclise (é só lembrar de inverter no meio da frase, colocando a preposição antes do verbo) Observação: próclise- antes mesóclise- meio (não se preocupe com essa, ninguém usa, só aparece em textos literários) ênclise- fim. 

    É isso, espero que você continue aprendendo a passos largos e continue confundindo as brasileiras por conta do seu ótimo português :D 

    Abraços!

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    It has been very useful! Hello! This entry is being made just to say thank you to those that have been helping me with corrections in my writings. It has been very useful, I'm learning a lot! I'm trying to help everyone that I can with Portuguese also, feel free to add me on skype: ale_hq, and we may chat 50/50 in our native languages. If English is not your native language, we can chat as well, I believe chatting with foreign speakers is also good to improve communication skills. About two weeks ago I talked in skype with a Vietnamese guy, we barely could understand what each other were saying, but we had some fun, we laughed about our mistakes and our mispronunciations. I'm used to hear English native speakers through podcasts, music and television, so it is not so difficult to me understanding what they are saying anymore. But, with this Vietnamese guy, it was another story - I had to concentrate a lot to understand what he was saying. Every once in a while this was not enough, and we had to try to say the same thing with different words, in hope that the other would understand this time :D It was fun, as I said before. Thanks for reading and thank you in advance for any feedbacks!
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    Nada de mais

    Oi galera! Faz um tempinho que não falo (escrevo) nada aqui. Ando meio ocupado, mas tudo bem pois acho que vou começar a ganhar mais dinheiro. Preciso poupá-lo porque pretendo me mudar pra Buenos Aires em março. Logo que eu tiver poupado bastante dinheiro, vou ficar feliz porque vou poder relaxar um pouco. Eu gostaria de ter outro emprego pois não estou ganhando muito no atual (você gostaria de ter outro emprego no lugar do que você tem agora, ou gostaria de ter dois empregos? ). Mesmo assim, terei que ficar com ele até pelo menos o novo ano. Vamos ver. Tchau!

     

    O texto está bom cara! Sua concordância é boa, conjuga bem os verbos... Fiz mais sugestões do que correções em si. Em azul fiz uma pergunta, porque dependendo da resposta a alteração no seu texto seria um pouco diferente. 

     

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