And it has just as many music videos as ours
They say the best way to learn a foreign language, short of dating a native speaker, is to watch TV in the language you’re trying to learn. Since I’m in the process of learning Portuguese (only 25 days until I’m in Brazil!), I managed to track down the webcast, Brazilian version of MTV.
I’m on my second day of programming, and I’ve already learned the following words: domingo, segunda, terça, quarta, quinta, sexta, sábado (the days of the week — I then also learned that the weekdays are actually followed by -feira), bunda (ass), maratona (marathon), assine e ganhe (sign in/subscribe and win), quebra-galho (literally “twig breaker” — it seems to mean a resourceful penny-pincher with connections, but I’m not completely sure), lei (law), aborto (abortion), corno (seems to mean a stupid, slutty guy who cheats on his girlfriend/wife), batalha (battle), modelo (model). I’m sure there are a bunch more that I’ve subconsciously taken in as well.
Also, there have been a few really, really good web resources for helping me out with Portuguese stuff:
Online Verb Conjugator
Portuguese Wikipedia
Portuguese Dictionary
May 28th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
i have a brazilian friend, who would be glad to help you out with some knowledge if you’re interested. he knows lots of words for “vagina”…
May 31st, 2007 at 8:28 am
I’m brazilian and sometimes I take a look at your blog to see if there’s something related to etoile (great work guys). I would even help to translate etoile when needed (I’m in the etoile-dev@gna.org mailing list, when the time comes to do the translation, just call for that in the list). I would help you with portuguese if you want (my english is not that good, though).
May 31st, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Qué bom! Muito prazer, Clebson! I will take you up on both offers — we’ll let you know about the translation, when we have set of documentation that is ready for it, and I’ll be sending you an email personally this weekend!
Obrigado!