My guitar and the Brazilian guitar.

I like playing the guitar. I have been playing it since when I was sixteen years old and I have still (still have) been learning it because it is a complex instrument. There are two years I have had a musical group (or a band) where I play the guitar for two years. We have fun playing Brazilian dance music.

The guitar allows you to play a lot of different kinds of musical genres. As Here in Brazil we have a wide variety of musical styles, the guitar is present in each one, either doing the harmony accompaniment or the melody. Fortunately we have a special Brazilian culture around the guitar. We also have many greats guitar players, many of which are known worldwide known, like Turibio Santos, Yamandú, Alessandro Penezzi and Raphael Rabello. This last one, who unfortunately has died, was the best among all and without a doubt one the best players in the world. He was the most appreciated for Paco de Lucia, as he said. The Brazilian genre that a most like to play (and listen to) is Choro (that means Cry in English). Choro was the first musical urban genre and, like he, said Villa-Lobos (The greatest Brazilian classic composer) Choro represents the Brazilian soul. Curiously he also had the guitar in his heart.

Last but not least, if someone wants know something about that, just contact me. It would be pleased show my culture.

Best wishes!

Good text!  I listened to some Choro music and watched a documentary about it when I was in Brasil.  It was very nice.

Intro

Good morning.
My name is Hellen. I am learning English.  I can speak and write a little bit, just a few words.

Welcome Hellen, good luck!  Let me know if you need any help.

My thoughts on language learning

I've been on vacation for two weeks now, so I've decided I'm going to use some of my spare time to write down some of my thoughts on language learning and how I go about it. I'm not sure if a notebook entry is the right format for it, but I'm not aware of a better way to do it on this website.

I am going to start by saying that I truly enjoy learning languages, but I can't really describe myself as having a special talent for it. I might be good in some areas and I've developed some tricks over all these years that help me tackle this difficult task, but I'm still struggling most of the time and making slow progress.

My ambitions are high, but I have to prioritize what languages I spend more time and effort on because realistically speaking, there's never enough time in the day. (so true! lol) And it seems like our brain can only learn a limited amount of information within a certain period of time before it needs to shut off to digest everything and make space for something new.

For this reason, I'm spending most of my time learning English and German these days. Next on my list comes Danish because I'm really fascinated with this language. I like the sound of it and it has a great entertainment value for me. (or:  it is very entertaining to me) Plus I'm encouraged by my relatively quick progress with it.

I also find French interesting, but at the same time more challenging. My mind is so used to working with Germanic languages that it takes a lot of effort to understand the logic of French.

Just for the fun of it, I also looked superficially into Norwegian, Finnish, and Polish. Hopefully, I will get a chance to learn them more thoroughly someday.

That's it for now. Thanks for reading.

Good job!

My job

I work at Pernambucanas, it’s a big store in Araguari and it’s located downtown. I started working there November 1, 2007. I started with auxiliary and now I’m in manager administration. I like working here. At my job, I resolve customer problems and this is very good but is also very hard because I work nine hours every day and I work about two Sundays every  month. I intend – in the future- to become a first manager in the company because it is the principal boss of the company. That is my job. See you.

Another way to say it:

I work at a big store in downtown Araguari called Pernambucanas.  I started working there November 1, 2007.  I began working in auxilliary and now I'm working in manager administration.  I enjoy working here.  I work in customer service and I like it, but it is also very hard.   I work nine hour shifts and have to work on Sundays about twice a month.  In the future, I intend to become the head manager of the company because then I would be the boss of the entire company.