Sunday, March 18, 2007
Portuguese lesson
But first - this tarantula was bigger then your hand! living in a hole in the bottom of a tree. Piro (the face painter) poked a long stick in the hole and out it came.
Oops the tarantula escaped - check it is not under your keyboard!
Very nervous about getting into languages with several readers fluent in other languages.
Took a few Portuguese lessons on the ship it looks like someone who couldn't hear or spell very well took notes on Spanish and called it Portuguese.
If you didn't know - All of South America except Brazil speaks Spanish - but Brazil speaks Portuguese. Well the Guiana's speak Dutch, English and French of course.
I can't remember much but here are a few interesting bits.
Ola sounds the same as Spanish, good morning is Bom Dia pronounced "bom jea" looks like bon dia which, I think is Castillian/Spanish, but sounds nothing like it.
A man says Obrigado for "thank you" but a woman says Obrigada. It doesn't matter whom you are talking TO. Sometimes abbreviated to "brigada" or "brigado"
Ok that is about all I can remember but it is very difficult to understand when you hear it.
I await ridiculing comments from my learned Spanish speaking daughter-in-law.
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We didn't see the spiders in the zoo on saturday, but there were plenty of other interesting animals to say "hi" to so J obliged!
William
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