About wulfblat

Status:

Considering a Move Abroad 

Gender:

Male

Currently Lives:

Citizen Of:

United States

My Website:

http://http://www.whiteweasel.net

I would love to live in...

New Zealand

Education:

University of Memphis
  1977 to 1981

Favorite Websites:

http://http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html

Favorite Movie:

The Big Lebowski

Some Forum Posts:

Portugal: Recommendations for books to learn Portuguese?:

My wife and I will be traveling to Portugal in October, and I thought it would be fun to begin learning Portuguese before we left. Because I am learning on my own I am hoping to find a book with a companion CD or on-line audio content. There are a number of on-line recommendations for books & CDs for learning Portuguese, and using those I purchased two different books (BBC Get By in Portuguese, and Teach Yourself Portuguese), but unfortunately both begin by presenting phrases to practice without first teaching the vocabulary or basic grammar used in those phrases. I realize that this style of teaching languages is popular, but it is not how I learn. I suffered through a year of Spanish taught in this way, leaving it in complete frustration. Then my first semester in college I took Latin. The professor handed out old and tattered books published in 1929 that introduced you to a small vocabulary, the declensions and conjugations for those words, and some pronunciation. After you mastered that you used the vocabulary in simple sentences. Then you moved on to more vocabulary and more rules. That class was a revelation and a joy, and I continued to take Latin through my college years. Can you recommend something like that for Portuguese?

Date Joined:

3/8/2012

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