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a-mari
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Topic: Improve english
Posted: 12 April 2012 at 13:36

Hello everybody!

I am interested in improving my English, if you have any interest in helping I will thank you.

Hug

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karljm
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Posted: 19 April 2012 at 01:47

hi Mariana! I'd be willing to help if you help me with my portuguese. i'm busy but motivated. Let me know. Karl

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a-mari
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Posted: 19 April 2012 at 08:45

closed!

I'm busy too.. but it is important
my Englis is not good.. I have a lot of colocatios mistakes, if you can helped me in this situation I'll be grateful.

I'm available.. what you want learned? have you ever contact with the portuguese?

see you later

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Posted: 19 April 2012 at 18:16

Your English is probably better than my Portuguese. I studied for six months about five years ago....and i've traveled to Brasil about 6-7 times. I know Spanish pretty well but sometimes that gets in the way. I think it is best to study on my own then when i have a question about something i can ask you. Maybe we can Skype once in awhile to work on our pronounciations and accents. What do you think? How can I help you?

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Posted: 20 April 2012 at 11:54

So, a lot of person thought that Portuguese is similar to Spanish.. but the reality is has nothing to do ..
It may be, what is your name in Skype? Do you have facebook? we can practice.. talk there especially when need quickly answer.

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Posted: 20 April 2012 at 17:38

Skype - karljmo - in my portuguese class all were native spanish speakers, then english, except me. They understood portuguese quicker and better than me but when they spoke they almost always said something in spanish. I spoke better portuguese though because i didn't revert to spanish like they did lol, anyway....

Edited by karljm - 21 April 2012 at 16:04

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cara0910
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Posted: 20 April 2012 at 18:52

Originally posted by a-mari

So, a lot of person thought that Portuguese is similar to Spanish.. but the reality is has nothing to do ..It may be, what is your name in Skype? Do you have facebook? we can practice.. talk there especially when need quickly answer.

What you are trying to say is, "A lot of people think that Portuguese is similar to Spanish, but in really is nothing like it."

A verdade é que o português é quase espanhol mesmo. Os dois idiomas são extrememente parecidos em termos de gramática, vocabulário, etc.

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Posted: 20 April 2012 at 20:14

"but in reality it is not similar at all" - probably more how an English speaker would say it......eu concordo que.....

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Posted: 20 April 2012 at 20:44

Originally posted by karljm

"but in reality it is not similar at all" - probably more how an English speaker would say it......<span ="hps">eu concordo</span> <span ="hps">que.....</span>

I am an English speaker. It was a typo. It was meant to be 'it really is nothing like it.'

"but they really are not similar at all," would be better.

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Posted: 20 April 2012 at 22:02

lol. i'm gonna delete my email address...already got a couple wierd emails.....so make note so that you can still contact me....

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