Learning Journal 14 110

[Oliver Cho]

This semester I have progressed in two major categories of Portuguese. The first is soccer. I feel as though I am able to play a soccer game in Portuguese with other people, as I can clearly communicate what I want in a game. I can also speak a little about current soccer event in soccer, however, not very well as I still really don't know sentence structure in Portuguese. I can also listen to soccer commentary Portuguese. From the commentaries I can get the basic idea of what the commentators are trying to say, but I cannot specifically translate each and every word. The commentator also has to be speaking slower than normal, because I cannot understand Portuguese at the pace in which they typically speak. The other are I have progressed in is the culture of Brazil. I have come to know the Afro-Brazilian culture quite well as I have been studying Capoiera in another class. I can confidently sing songs in Portuguese and perform the movements of Capoiera. I can also translate what the name of each movement is in English