Português Geral - Nivel 1 Today we started back from where we left off from our previous introduction lesson. The introduction lesson covered a lot of greetings (bom dia, boa noite, boa tarde, como vai, tudo bem), departing farewells (ate logo, ate amanha, tchau), questions of what your name is (como se chama, como e seu nome, requests to spell your name (como se escreve, como se soletrar). This lesson had a quick review of those with some more in depth discussion of the conjugation of se chamar and some exercises for it. We also did a review of the alphabet and how the letters can change enunciation depending on their position and what consonants and vowels are present before, after, before/after. I will need to spend some time this week going over these, as they will come in very handy in my pronunciation of Portuguese words. There was also some discussion on the usage of nasal sounds with verbs. We worked a couple of audio exercises where Professora Ana had me listen and then tell her what I heard, listen again while looking at the text of the conversations, and correcting my pronunciation of the Portuguese words. Next we covered nationalities and the verb "ser". I've noticed a few words that I attempt to pronounce in Espanõl, and I need to be careful of that. One of such is "qual". I also need to be careful to not roll my r's in words with a double r in the middle (rr) and instead pronounce with a "h" sound.