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Lack of time
Many of us have the "lack of time syndrome". This syndrome prevents us to do the simplest tasks in order to do the bigger ones (or no tasks at all). Today we face a huge amount of distractions (phone, facebook, e-mail, etc) which makes the situation even worse. I hope someday I leave the lack of time syndrome to feel more productive (which is kind of another syndrome as well :-)
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Why Portuguese America is just one huge country and Spanish America is a fractal of many nations?
Very few people know why Portuguese America is only one huge country and why Spanish America is a fractal of several nations.
Spanish America started to be independent at the time of Napoleonic wars. Napoleon invaded Spain and took control over it. Spanish control over its parts of America became weak, which facilitated their indepency. On the other hand, when Napoleon invaded Portugal, D. Joao VI fled to Brazil in order to avoid being captured and ruled the Portuguese Empire from here. He was the first monarch to put his feet on Americas. With his presence, Brazilian territory was kept almost intact.
D. João VI left Brazil in 1818 with his son, D. Pedro, which later (1822) proclaimed our independency from Portugal (we had an indepency war too, just like USA). USA was the first country to recognise our independency in 1825 after our first constitution was estabilished.
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Is English hard?
When I was at high school, I had an discussion with my teacher about how hard english can be. She told me that the only thing really hard for native Portuguese or even Spanish speakers is pronunciation. English has only 12 tenses. Portuguese has more than 50 (I guess it is 56, but I'm not sure). Most of Portuguese tenses are not used in formal or informal communication today. Something that really bugs me about english is the use of "have". I don't know exactly the rules to use "have" and I tend to use examples of what I've read instead of applying the rules. I think I'll study a little bit more about it and I'll post another note tomorrow to see if I learned well.
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My first day at italki
Hi folks!
It is very exciting to be here. I'm here mainly for improving my crippled English. I watch a lot of TV shows from USA so I can understand quite well what native English speakers say. I've never been outside of Brazil so my contact with foreigners are very rare. I have some difficulty in english verbal conjugation and I hope to learn that as well. I hope I'll have a good time with Italki :-)
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