- Post your fifth bi-weekly report on your language-learning activities.
These past weeks we have been focused on food words and their alternative sounds, and the difference between: É and E. Food wise, we talked about common foods in Brazil and then looked up recipes online. We used this website: http://www.tudogostoso.com.br to look at recipes and talk about how to make some of them. We also read some recipes and I learned some cooking terms, measurement terms, and also learned what Brazilian foods are popular! Everything looked so delicious! Afterwards we came up with alternative spellings of words, what I mean by this is that we came up with a list of words that sounded differently to me than they were written. I have written the list that we came up with below. Doing this made me realize the difference between hearing “ge” and “che” “je”. Finally, we looked at the difference between É and E. Though subtle, the accent makes the difference between the two vast. É means ‘is’, and E is ‘and’. This concept took me a long time to comprehend because I was so confused by the subtle difference. At first, they sounded like the exact same word to me, and I kept mixing up which word had the accent. However, I finally remembered that É means is by focusing on the fact that it has the accent because it is trying to define something while E is trying to put two words together, making it more subtle. This might not make any sense, but it is the way I got myself to remember the two.
I have learned so much these past weeks, and I’m excited for the finale! I understand so much about Brazil and Portuguese now, that I am bursting out to talk to someone about what I have learned! I have accomplished most of the things I wanted to do in my learning plan, and I think in the next few weeks we will be looking at culture again and reviewing everything learned so far.
Some words and their “alternative spelling” for pronunciation purposes
pode (poge) → can
mentindo (menchindo) → lying
finalmente (finalmenche) → finally
realmente (he-all-menche) → really
De (dje) → from
atitude (atchi-tu-de) → attitude
disse (djisse) → said
tive (tchive) → had
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