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Post #195511

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ricarleite
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Languages
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Date created
25-Mar-2006, 9:50 AM
I like different languages too. I find it easy to learn new languages, and by watching a foreign TV station, I start to be able to "know" what they are talking about and get the words.

Languages I know:

* Brazillian Portuguese. Obviously. Not totally familiar with some words and slangs from Portugal, but I can understand it too.

* English. Being absolutely fluent since I was about 13 - although I do make some mistakes now and then. I can speak even better than I can write - I'm not a good speller - I can detect almost every kind of accent, and I can imitate a british, southern american, indian, irish and australian accents. Since I work directly with americans and british, there are days in which I speak and write almost totally in english.

* Spanish, because it comes from the same origins as portuguese. Someone who speaks spanish can understand 75% of what is said in spanish, if it is said slowly without using local slang. And I know a lot of words that are different in spanish, so... by the way, did you know that the word for "weird" in portuguese is the word for "delicious" in spanish? Stuff like that.

* Japanese. I am currently learning japanese, although I am going on a very slow pace, since I've been very busy lately. I know hiragana and katakana completely, I can write about 50 kanji and read about 90 kanji, and I know some basic sentence structure. I can't have a full conversation in japanese, but I can slowly comunicate whatever I want in a broken, gramatically incorrect japanese.

After I learn japanese, I wanna try to learn French, and then it'll be enough.