Portuguese Words and Phrases

[Bubba Boy]

Rosetta Stone is 5,000 times better than Pimseluer!

This depends on how your brain is wired and how you learn. Lorenzo explained this perfectly a while back. He basically said, Pimsleur will be good for certain types of people but bad for others, and vice a versa for Rosetta Stone. Obviously the wiring in Omegaman's brain suits Rosetta. I personally found Rosetta stone to not be to my liking, but loved Pimsleur.

We need Lorenzo to explain which type is best for which type of person again.

[Pelicano]

Go to the living dicionario, it might have what you are looking for.

http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/

[Hobbying]

Rosetta Stone is 5,000 times better than Pimseluer!

Can you elaborate? And where did you get it?

[Watchman4400]

Rosetta Stone is 5,000 times better than Pimseluer!

Where did you find Thomas's course? I look on amazon but it says available 2/09.

I'm currently doing Pimsleur which I find helpful for me speaking but still a hard to follow someone who speaks Portuguese to me. Anyone know how does Rosetta Stone compare to Pmseluer?

[Hobbying]

Hi folks,

At long last the Michel Thomas Portuguese course is available and I've just bought mine. This is definately one of the best beginners courses around. Although I've completed the Pimsleur I II and III this new course will be invaluable for ironing out those little problems like pronouns and verb tense endings for verbs.

I hope some of you others out there will 'discover' this method for yourselves and I'm sure you will progress and understand Portuguese better.

Boa Sorte!

Where did you find Thomas's course? I look on amazon but it says available 2/09.

I'm currently doing Pimsleur which I find helpful for me speaking but still a hard to follow someone who speaks Portuguese to me. Anyone know how does Rosetta Stone compare to Pmseluer?

[Ricton]

Ricton, you are spot on with the Michel Thomas method, it is awesome. I'm currently using the MTM for Spanish to improve my current decent understanding to fluency. I will definitely get his Portuguese series as I plan on making my first trip to Brazil next year.

Yes, I was learning French for about a year very unsuccessfuly until I found Michel Thomas,then everything just kind of gelled then took off. It's much easier to construct your own sentences without too much difficulty after just the first few lessons. The advanced series are fabulous as well for learning the tenses in the subjuctive. Unfortunately its January before the advanced is available for Portuguese. Bah1

Hats off to Michel Thomas!

[Puta Romeo]

Ricton, you are spot on with the Michel Thomas method, it is awesome. I'm currently using the MTM for Spanish to improve my current decent understanding to fluency. I will definitely get his Portuguese series as I plan on making my first trip to Brazil next year.

[Ricton]

Hi folks,

At long last the Michel Thomas Portuguese course is available and I've just bought mine. This is definately one of the best beginners courses around. Although I've completed the Pimsleur I II and III this new course will be invaluable for ironing out those little problems like pronouns and verb tense endings for verbs.

I hope some of you others out there will 'discover' this method for yourselves and I'm sure you will progress and understand Portuguese better.

Boa Sorte!

[Ryjerrob]

If some of you guys like Christopherd, Sperto, Jesuscola, El Austriaco, etc. ever wonder if your contributions other than the obvious are appreciated, you need not wonder. Thanks!

For me, the second best thing to being there, is reading about the exploits of others. If I don't check the board for over three days, I sometimes feel like I'm missing something. While from time to time we have our disagreements, it's all in the furtherance of mongering. I now just check in on what's going on from my cell, and think about how I want to respond when I get home. Some of the stories keep me laughing all day long at work, while I'm dealing with crap. I will do my best to keep sharing, and living through everyone's stories until December when I get back to making my own...........

ryjer

[Exec Talent]

If some of you guys like Christopherd, Sperto, Jesuscola, El Austriaco, etc. ever wonder if your contributions other than the obvious are appreciated, you need not wonder. Thanks!

[Jan 156]

Back to more basic stuff, Chambers/Harraps (the dictionary publishers) have just released a new Brazilian Portuguese Phrase Book in case of interest to first timers planning a brief trip.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harraps-Braz...8738483&sr=8-2

It's well laid out and convenient pocket size. The dictionary at the back has 5000 words compared to the (similar) Lonely Planet phrasebook with 2000.

One curious feature is a pull-out map that covers Rio from Centro to Botafogo.

[SlimHoleDrill]

While I never would've asked, I was thinking it had something to do with a sexual preference. I now stand corrected.

ryjer

Well ...

You're not entirely wrong. If I get a choice, I'd choose slim over wide, tight over loose, etc. Mostly, I'd choose some over none.

The problem with all of that is that this particular aspect does not generally correlate with other obsrvable things like height hips, etc. Except for age!! You can't tell a book by the cover so you never can be sure the first time. For choosing repeats, different story.

So I did enjoy the double entendre, but my main deal was to remember it.

[Ryjerrob]

Yeah, it was actually supposed to be SlimHoledriller referring to the operator, not the, ah, tool. But there seems to be a limit on length so it got shortened. LOL.

So, profession or avocation or both? Always good to strive for some ambiguity and anonymity in a screen name.

Actually I was just trying for something I could remember. LOL again.

While I never would've asked, I was thinking it had something to do with a sexual preference. I now stand corrected.

ryjer

[SlimHoleDrill]

Interesting conclusion.
When I choosed my ISG-name I actually thought of choosing "Burrinho", but I felt it described my personality to much.

Among my brazilian friends I earned several nicknames, some flattering and some not. "Cachorro de rua" is too long so I thought of "Esperto". It didn't feel comfortable so I cut of the E, becoming "Sperto". Voilà!

I'm impressed how some members have chosen such colorful names, like "SlimHoleDrill".

Yeah, it was actually supposed to be SlimHoledriller referring to the operator, not the, ah, tool. But there seems to be a limit on length so it got shortened. LOL.

So, profession or avocation or both? Always good to strive for some ambiguity and anonymity in a screen name.

Actually I was just trying for something I could remember. LOL again.

[Sperto]

Then I learned that the talent to find the jeitinho is also highly regarded in Brasil, so much so that there is a special name for a guy who can do so: esperto!
So, putting it all together, it seems this is likely the origin of the screen name of the famed Dr. Sperto. If so, it is absolutely appropriate given the quality and quantity of his posts. Maybe this is not the meaning but, anyway, it makes a good story.

Interesting conclusion.
When I choosed my ISG-name I actually thought of choosing "Burrinho", but I felt it described my personality to much.

Among my brazilian friends I earned several nicknames, some flattering and some not. "Cachorro de rua" is too long so I thought of "Esperto". It didn't feel comfortable so I cut of the E, becoming "Sperto". Voilà!

I'm impressed how some members have chosen such colorful names, like "SlimHoleDrill".