21 July my 10 new words for the day efeito - effect chave de fenda - screwdriver Julgar - to judge Calçar - to wear (shoes) estacionar (to park) Vontade - wish/desire apesar de - inspite of;despite pregar - to preach esquecer to forget agradável - pleasant; delightful Eu estou magro, essa é o efeito que indo para à academia todo os dias tem sobre meu corpo. Meu pai pode nunca achar a chave de fenda dele. Ela lue o livro integra As garotas ficaram de pé ao lado da loja e jularam as roupas as mulheres usaram. Ela calça os sapatos dela em todos lugares Eu não estou com vontade ir ao cinema hoje à noite Ele ainda ama ela apesar de como ela sente sobre ele Nossa pastor prega para muito tempo, Nós pensamos ele não vou terminar! Eu estou escrevendo essas frases então eu não esqueço elas Meu gerente não está no trabalho hoje, faz um dia agradável

What are the best ways of remembering new words etc When having a text conversation with my language partner, I am use an online dictionary a great deal and a website for conjugating verbs. Many times I am looking up a word or conjugation that I know I have previously looked up before. What do you recommend for remembering! I thought about starting to put new words in a notebook and using them in a Notebook entry on here. Any other recommended ideas?

Pain and Pleasure

I was driving a Brazilian friend's friend to the other side of the country today, and of course we spoke English, one of the first things I told them was my portuguese is really bad.

So instead of me having 2.5 hours of practice we spoke in English.

 

On the way home I was listening to some personal development Cd's by Tony Robbins and 2 things really hit home, one was about following through with our plans to get to the finish, how we should do at least 1 thing each day that moves us closer to our goal, and that creates momentum and quicker progression.

The second thing was about what motivates us to do or not do things and it's the balance of pain and pleasure, for me  the pain of looking stupid trying to talk in portuguese knowing I'm not getting the grammar right or not pronouncing words correctly or not understanding what someone says to me is much bigger than the pleasure of getting better and eventually becoming fluent in portuguese and the opportunities that will bring.

 

So I need to change that, I need to see the mistakes I make as part of the learning process and not some huge embarrassment

Eu estou aqui de novo eu tenho sido emboro deste website e estudando português mas estou voltar, pronto aprender. Eu sei eu tenho esquecido muito

what are they saying at the end of a phone call? It sounds like people say 'ton ta' at the end of a phone call. So I'm guessing it's actually something like então está. Is that right and what do they mean by it?

O que é a musica a gente gosta?

Eu sei em Goias que a musica sertaneja é muito popular mas tudo o mundo eu conheço não gostam.  O que é alumgas musicas rock do Brasil?

How did you get over shyness and embarrassment of trying to converse in when learning? I've been trying to learn Portuguese for 4 years, I'm not living in Brazil so I'm not in the situation where i have to speak it. My wife and many of my friends are Brazilian, but I feel really awkward speaking knowing I'm getting lots wrong, especially because they will make a big fuss encouraging me. I'd rather learn and practice in secret and then just start speaking with them when I was fluent! Does anyone have any magic fairy dust?!!