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Hi all!
My goal in italki is to share with you my knowledge about Portugal and the portuguese. If you want to learn a bit more about the most western country and oldest nation in Europe feel free to contact me.
Best regards
Vitor C.
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- That you may find peace and a great new start along with all those who are there for you (family and friends). :) Rashel, my mood is not that great right now... as Amanda, maybe, I'll soon have to leave, but to another country. That is not something I will do lightly. It's going to hurt a lot, because I will be deprived from my treasures in this life: my wife and children, my parents, my brother and my dearest friends. But it's all for the best of everyone and that pays the effort... Wish you well.0 votedOctober 18, 20110
- Ni hao Natalia! I too agree with Dilce and Forvill. In Portugal, nowadays, is not so frequent to use the words 'garoto' and 'garota', but when used they are meant to refer to someone from young childhood to the start of adolescency (maybe from 5 to 10/12 years-old). In Brasil I know the words are applied to older ages... 'Menino' and 'menina' are words applied to young children, from birth to the start of adolescency, but we use more often the word 'criança' (sounds like 'crianssa' and is the equivalent to 'child' in english). In Portugal we consider that someone is a child ('criança') until he/she is 16 years-old (although many get offended to be called a child by that age, so I advise you to address to someone younger with 'criança' only until the age of 12/13 years-old - they get less offended :). We use the term 'menina' also to address politely to a young woman who hasn't married yet. It's the equivalent to the english word 'miss'. The term 'menino' as means of addressing to a young boy in the same condition is less frequent, but sometimes is also used. 'Homem' and 'mulher' are terms used to refer people who entered the adulthood. There is no established minimum age for it, but we use it more often with people near the age of 30 years-old. I hope I have helped. All the best PS: just a curiosity - we also have a drink named 'garoto'. Is an expresso coffee with half the cup filled with milk.0 votedMarch 1, 20090
- Hello Azura! I am Portuguese and I would be pleased to help you. I understand perfectly well your problem, because I too have that kind of worries when speaking to others in foreign languages (which I'm trying to change everyday). Feel free to add me to your network anytime. All the best0 votedMarch 1, 20090
- Hello everyone,
I felt the same some times in my experience with iTalki, but that's the problem with open communities online. They are open to everyone and there will always be someone who is more interested in spamming, scamming, flirting, passing time, selling, etc, although many times the community sites have means of restricting their entrance when detected. All we have to do is to report the abusive usage to the technical team, but of course this is a highly fragile way of keepingpeople with this kind of interests at bay, because they can always log in with a different account...
Anyway, the mail address for abuse reporting is [email protected].
I don't know other means of fighting this plague other the ones you already said, but I often don't reply those mails and usually they are the first and the last I receive.
Cheers0 votedMarch 1, 20090 - In my opinion, freedom is when you find yourself fully aware of your shackles, visible or not, and strongly believe that is you who carries the power to decide what must be done, despite the imediate limitations imposed by the self, others or the environment. The walker has full responsability on the path he takes.0 votedJanuary 6, 20090
- Concordo com a Cherry quando diz que não há língua mais fácil que a materna, com o restante pessoal que acha o Inglês a de mais fácil aprendizagem visto sermos massivamente bombardeados com informação nessa língua, mas é minha convicção que uma língua universal não deveria ser escolhida entre as existentes. Neste aspecto, seria o Esperanto a opção mais acertada, porque foi criada com esse intuito. Eu conheço muito pouco desta língua, mas o que eu consegui aprender permitiu-me ver como era fácil de aprender e utilizar.0 votedJanuary 6, 20090
- Essa pergunta é núcleo de uma discussão bem acesa em Portugal. Os mais puristas estão, claro, em profundo desacordo. No entanto, o acordo ortográfico não serve para "abrasileirar" o Português. É uma forma de tentar equilibrar a língua em todos os países de língua oficial portuguesa. Se procurarmos conhecer um pouco mais sobre as diferenças existentes vemos que elas são várias, ao ponto de trocarmos por vezes o significado das frases ou não entendermos mesmo o que o outro quer dizer. Por exemplo, um dos problemas em Portugal nas escolas (e no mundo profissional) com a comunidade imigrante dos países de língua oficial portuguesa é que trazem consigo uma bagagem linguística diferente da nossa e quando se expressam de acordo com as regras aprendidas nos seus países de origem erram à luz da nossa gramática, alguns deles considerados crassos. Para evitar este tipo de situações surge a questão do acordo ortográfico, estando plenamente de acordo com esta iniciativa. No entanto, a forma como ela pretende ser feita não considero a mais correcta, pois é de empurrão e isso raramente termina bem. Acho que existem certas regras que deverão permanecer de acordo com a natureza da língua de cada país, pois se assim não for além de a descaracterizar-mos também incorremos no risco de a corrompermos com um vocabulário que pouco ou nenhum significado tem para nós.0 votedJanuary 6, 20090
- Nihao Natalia! Actualy, there are two ways to pronounce it. If you say "feliz" in portuguese spoken in Brasil you should pronounce it "feliss" like in "hapiness" (as everyone said), but if you speak the word in portuguese spoken in Portugal you should pronounce it "felish". Every word that ends with the letter "z", in portuguese from Portugal, is pronounced with "sh". Hope it helped. Cheers Vitor0 votedDecember 6, 20080

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