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    Eu Calendario

    This my availibility during the week I go by central standard time CST. As you can see I have alot of free time. I have not including that I have scheduled throughout the week as well as study time.

    I really want to practice my spoken Portuguese so if you are available during these times let me know. my skype is: philjg1

    Let me know if you have any questions about my schedule

    Tchau

    Segunda-feira:
    Tenho aula das oita da dia e trinta as un da tarde.

    Tenho aula das oito e trinta à uma (hora)* da tarde
    Eu sou disponvivel das un as cinco as tarde.

    Eu estou disponível da uma às cinco da tarde.
    Trabalha das un cinco as dez hora

    Trabalho das cinco as dez horas.
    Depois eu forca (I really don't know what you meant here, if you type it in english maybe I can help you) se eu nao dormir imediatamente

     

    The thing here is the concordance of the article with the noun that follows it. Pure grammar, and I know it can get very tricky when you start to have contact with all the rules (it happens to me in english as well). But I'll try not to complicate it too much.

    Otherwise english, in portuguese the article varies, according to the noun. It can varies in gender and number.

    Number is the easiest, in portuguese you'll always have a "s" in the end of the word indicating that it's plural, so the article will also be in the plural. In this case "das uma" is wrong because the noun "uma" is in singular, so the article will also have the "s" indincating its plural. Anything that is more than ONE is plural, including the numbers itself. Example: "Four kids"; "Quatro criançaS", "One cow", "Uma vaca".

    Gender is more about you knowing wich word is male or female. One of the indications of it is the vowel in the end, if you have an "o" in the end of the word, it is a male word, and if you have an "a" its a female word. Obviously there are soe exceptions like everything, "dia (day), for example is a male word though it ends on "a". So, it's not a rule. When is male the article will have an "o", and when is female it'll have an "a" (this "gender mark" will always come in the last syllable).


    Terca-feira:
    Eu sou durante todo o dia

    Note: In portuguese we use two different verbs to express the differents meanings of to be. So when you want to express an action, like "I am cooking" you use the verb "estar", "Eu estou cozinhando". And when you want to say that something or somebody is something or somebody (ok, it got quite confusing) you use the verb "estar". For example: "I'm old", "Eu sou velho".



    Quatra-feira:
    Tenho aula das oita da dia e trinta as un da tarde.

    Tenho aula das oito a trinta (ou meia) à uma da tarde.

    The backtick is a thing that will make no big difference in your life right now (most part of the people here in Brazil doesn't really knows it anyway)
    Eu disponivel depois cinco horas da noite

    Eu* estou disponível depois das cinco horas da tarde.

     

    The pronoum it's totally optional in the beggining of the sentence in this case, and natives usually doesn't use it. But, it doesn't means it's wrong.

    You noticed the "estar" verb (conjugated) in here, with "somebody (eu) being something (disponível)?

    Now, what I think it's more a geographical thing. Five o' clock (cinco horas) here in Brasil it's still afternoon, so we always say five in(?) the afternoon.

    Quinta-feira:
    Eu sou durante todo o dia

    The object in here is missing, I (eu) am (sou or estou) something the whole day (todo o dia).
    Trabalha das un cinco as dez hora


    Each verb has it own conjugation according to each person, varying with the tense. It's just verbs conjugation and it'll suck (pardon my bad vocabulary) anyway I explain. I think that you'll learn it better with the practicing (like anything).


    Depois eu forca(?) se eu nao dormir imediatamente

    I don't know what you meant by "forca", if you don't get some sleep after work.

    Sexta-feira:
    Tenho aula das oita da dia e trinta as un da tarde.

    Tenho aula das oito e trinta a uma da tarde.

    Except for one and two, numbers don't vary at all.

    Other thing, when you say for example "oito e trinta à uma" (eight and half till one) - one time untill another -you don't have to say if the first hour you said (in this case, eight and a half) is in the morning or night or afternoon, the second one will make implicit wich part of the day is it. So, it's "oito e trinta à uma da tarde".


    Eu sou disponvivel a menos que faco parte :)

    Estou disponível (?)



    Sabado:
    Trabalha das dez manha as quatro da tarde

    Trabalho das dez da manhã as quatro da tarde
    Eu sou disponvivel a menos que faco parte

    Eu estou disponível


    Domingo:
    Eu sou disponvivel durante todo o dia! :D

    Estou disponível durante todo o dia!

     

    PS: if you have any question or any doubt related to what I tried to explain, feel free to ask me, and I'll answer as soon as possible. I know I was very thechnical but I hope I helped you.

     

    Good luck!

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    November 11, 2012
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    November 10, 2012
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    Not necessarily, Jeff. Here's the rule of punctuation that applies in this case: Use commas for parenthetical elements. A "parenthetical element" is any part of a sentence that can be removed without changing the real meaning of the sentence. Examples: John Geton, who is chairman of the company, is quite old. Andrew, my wife's brother, cannot come. Andrew (my wife's brother) cannot come. The objective, to find peace in both countries, is hard to reach. Source: http://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation-comma.htm
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    November 9, 2012
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    First notebook entry: Introducing myself I'm learning english 'cause I think it's necessary to know some other language that not your native one. It gives you a whole new vision of life because you start to have contact with a whole new culture. And I choose english because I always had much contact with it (it's some kind of global language). So, assuming that I would see it for my whole life I thought that would be good to improve it.
    November 4, 2012
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