A question for the ages. . .

thanks for answering

Hi I think that these italki sites will help you. Hi, these Italki English/Portuguese speaking language partners can be contacted by you to set up a practice time. Be aware of time differences between countries. Go to: http://www.italki.com/partners/1-Portuguese-English200-00-0.htm You can also learn English using Portuguese as your base language here at Italki. Go to: http://www.italki.com/knowledge/learn-English-Portuguese.htm

It is not really reversed in those languages,you might be rather comparing English with Chinese! In all cases you better learn English as a separate language and not compare its sentence strucutre with Portuguese, learn to think 'English' while learning it.