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Aprender alemão com novelinha sobre brasileira na Alemanha

Aprender alemão com novelinha sobre brasileira na Alemanha

Sep 2, 2010 | Categories: Featured Articles, language|idiomas, português | 0 comments
Vi esta dica no informativo do DAAD, o Serviço Alemão de Intercâmbio Acadêmico. A Deutsche Welle, rádio e televisão pública alemã com presença no mundo todo, oferece – além das notícias e comentários sobre a vida alemã, inclusive em português – também boas oportunidades para quem quiser aprender a língua alemã. Uma...
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How to Do Several Accents

Jul 28, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Meet Gareth Jameson, an actor, voiceover actor and voice coach from London. I found him while researching the Geordie accent on the internet. He posted a few interesting videos teaching the basics of some common accents of the English language, including Geordie, Scottish, Irish, New York (I suspect he meant the Brooklin accent as spoken by people...
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Wörterbuch Deutsch-Österreichisch, um dicionário de alemão da Áustria

Wörterbuch Deutsch-Österreichisch, um dicionário de alemão da Áustria

Jul 14, 2010 | Categories: language|idiomas, português | 1 comment
Ontem falei de um ótimo dicionário que mostra as diferenças entre o alemão da Alemanha e o alemão da Áustria – sim, são duas variantes tão distintas quanto o português de Portugal e o português do Brasil e essa variação pode dar muita dor de cabeça nas traduções! Hoje, destaco um dicionário on-line gratuito que tem o mesmo...
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Wie sagt man in Österreich? Wie sagt man in der Schweiz?

Jul 13, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 1 comment
Last weekend I was working on a legal translation from Austrian German into Brazilian Portuguese – I think it was my first “Austrian” translation this year. And because I work mostly with “German” German, I had my share of trouble with that translation. While most discrepancies between German German and Austrian...
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Dicionário Luso-Brasileiro mostra diferenças entre português europeu e português brasileiro

Jul 1, 2010 | Categories: language|idiomas, português | 0 comments
Que o português de Portugal é diferente do português do Brasil ninguém discute. Mas na prática o que isso significa? Além da semântica e de certas construções linguísticas diversas, a história dessa diferença começa, claro, pelo léxico, pelo vocabulário. Quem tiver interesse em saber mais sobre as diferenças de vocabulário...
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Learning Italian – Day 28 (Final Day)

Learning Italian – Day 28 (Final Day)

Mar 28, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 2 comments
Oggi è il giorno ventiotto del mio corso d’italiano. Ho studiato tutte le lezioni. Non so né scrivere né parlare molto bene italiano, però posso capiscere capire qualcosa e dicere dire qualcosa, per esempio al ristorante, all’albergo, al mercato… Ho guardato ieri il film Amarcord, diretto da Fellini, e l’ho potuto...
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Learning Italian – Day 27

Learning Italian – Day 27

Mar 27, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
On Day Twenty-Seven (today) of my Italian language course I learned the Italian simple past tense (imperfetto), which is used to describe facts, people and habits in the past. It’s similar to the Portuguese simple past, so I only had to learn how to conjugate verbs in that tense. Let me try to practice it with some sentences: Quando vivevo...
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Learning Italian – Day 26

Learning Italian – Day 26

Mar 27, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
On Day Twenty-Six (yesterday) of my self-study language program, I learned how to build negative sentences in Italian (Non ho mai visto un film italiano con Gina Lollobrigida) and I also learned new vocabulary relating to television and the media (il telegiornale, l’edizione). I wanted to see what Italian TV looks like, so I searched...
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Learning Italian – Day 25

Learning Italian – Day 25

Mar 26, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
My Italian lesson yesterday was a bit boring, since it only covered grammar aspects that Germans have trouble with (don’t forget I’m studying Italian with a learning program for Germans). I learned how to form adverbs ending in -mente and how to pronounce words with “qu”. So I took the time to visit the Corriere della...
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Learning Italian – Day 24

Learning Italian – Day 24

Mar 25, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Yesterday was Day Twenty-Four of my Italian saga, and I learned the names of a few body parts (now I know that ‘gamba‘ shrimps probably have that name because gamba means ‘leg’ in Italian!). I also learned what to say in case I go to the doctor in Italy and need to explain what’s going on with me: Ho mal di stomaco,...
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Learning Italian – Day 23

Learning Italian – Day 23

Mar 24, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
On Day Twenty-Three of my self-study language course, I sort of confirmed what I only suspected and note here two days ago: Italian double consonants (le consonanti doppie) do make vowels shorter, but that’s a side effect. The real thing is, Italian double consonants are longer. To practice pronunciation, I had to repeat out loud: Apelle,...
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Learning Italian – Day 22

Learning Italian – Day 22

Mar 23, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 2 comments
After a long day yesterday, I sat down to relax and learn my twenty second Italian language lesson. On Day Twenty-Two I learned a bit of vocabulary related to waste separation (la raccolta differenziata), which to me is a very German thing). I’m not sure if I understood the difference between la spazzatura and i rifiuti. I also learned the...
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Learning Italian – Day 21

Learning Italian – Day 21

Mar 21, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Once again, today being Day Twenty-One of my Italian course, I had to learn nothing new and only had to work on some exercises. So I took the spare time to go over the vocabulary and grammar once more. It’s only a week left and I feel I have really learned something. Since it’s Sunday, I watched La Dolce Vita, a wonderful Italian film...
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Learning Italian – Day 20

Learning Italian – Day 20

Mar 21, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
I made an experiment yesterday: I tried to watch Cinema Paradiso in Italian without subtitles just to check how much I could understand. Of course, I had seen this movie years ago. In fact, it’s one of my all-time favorite movies. It was released twenty years ago, back when I was beginning to be an informed fan of old 1930s and 1940s movies...
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Learning Italian – Day 19

Learning Italian – Day 19

Mar 20, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 1 comment
On Day Nineteen of my self-study program, I finally learned the Italian present perfect, and I can now refer to past events using the passato prossimo: Ho lavorato molto ieri. Ho tradutto tradoto tre mille parole, doppo dopo di che ho scrito scritto un pò per il mio libro. A mezzogiorno ho mangiato una pizza e fatto un succo di carota con...
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Learning Italian – Day 18

Learning Italian – Day 18

Mar 19, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
It’s very relaxing to have a break when translating highly technical material and do something completely different. That’s what I did yesterday, on Day Eighteen of my Italian adventure. After learning how to refer to food, yesterday I learned some basic Italian vocabulary referring to clothing, using both variable and invariable...
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Learning Italian – Day 17

Learning Italian – Day 17

Mar 18, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 2 comments
Learning Italian is really fun. I love the sound of it and the way every word is pronounced so clearly and phonetically. Now that I have Day Seventeen behind me, I am finally able to say that in Italian: Mi piace parlare italiano!. Yesterday I learned how to talk about other likes and dislikes in Italian in connection with the infinitive. Here...
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Learning Italian – Day 16

Learning Italian – Day 16

Mar 17, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Yesterday, Day Sixteen of my Italian learning saga, I finally made sense of many words I usually see on menus of Italian food restaurants. Some of the words are obvious, like antipasto, but others require a dictionary, like l’arista di maiale. But the best part of the lesson yesterday was the tongue-twisters I had to practice involving the...
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Learning Italian – Day 15

Learning Italian – Day 15

Mar 16, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 1 comment
On Day Fifteen of my Italian language self-study program I learned many nouns related to vegetables and fruit. Some of them are very easy to guess using my knowledge of Portuguese (la ciliegia, il melone, l’aglio), French (la fragola) or German (la carota). In order to put my newly learned words into practice I made up the following...
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Learning Italian – Day 14

Learning Italian – Day 14

Mar 14, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Every seventh day it’s relaxing time in my Italian self-study program. So today I only had to a few exercises just to make sure I learned the most important vocabulary. Since there was nothing else to study – and to enjoy a break from a financial translation project I’m doing this weekend – I listened to Italian music...
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Learning Italian – Day 13

Learning Italian – Day 13

Mar 14, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 1 comment
On Day Thirteen (yesterday) I studied a very basic CV in Italian and had an overview of the Italian education system. It doesn’t seem to be as complicated as the German system. Below I am going to try to explain the Italian education system’s structure in Italian: In l’Italia Italia, le i bambini dai tre ai sei anni possono...
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Learning Italian – Day 12

Learning Italian – Day 12

Mar 13, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 1 comment
Yesterday was Day Twelve, and I learned some names of occupations. I guess when it comes to occupations nobody has done more in so many areas than mr. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, a highly intelligent Italian that never ceases to amaze with his knowledge and inventiveness. I still can’t recite all of da Vinci’s occupations in...
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Learning Italian – Day 11

Learning Italian – Day 11

Mar 12, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 3 comments
I had another one of those extremely busy days yesterday, and so I couldn’t blog, but I did went on with my Italian self-study saga. I learned how to use some prepositions related to places and transportation and ask for directions. I think I am now ready to be a tourist in Italy. But Italian/Portuguese false friends are a major source of...
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Learning Italian – Day 10

Learning Italian – Day 10

Mar 11, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Yesterday was a very busy day, but I still had time to go on with my Italian lessons. It was Day 10, and I learned how to ask for and give directions, using the imperative mood, which is not so difficult. So in order to practice using the new words I’m going to make up a dialog between two strangers: - Mi scusi, mi può dire dove si trova...
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Learning Italian – Day 9

Learning Italian – Day 9

Mar 9, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 1 comment
Today I learned a lot of new Italian words describing furniture and other things in a home. I also practiced the comparative and superlative forms of some adjectives. Since I work from home, I’m going to try to describe in Italian what my home office looks like (using only the words I learned, of course, so a lot of things will be left...
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Learning Italian – Day 8

Learning Italian – Day 8

Mar 8, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 2 comments
Today is Day Eight of my adventure in self-studying Italian, and I just learned a few words to describe a house or apartment: il giardino, il soggiorno, le camere da letto, la cucina, l bagno, il corridoio etc. I also learned how to conjugate conditional verbs volere and potere. Those are the strangest verb forms I’ve ever seen: io vorrei,...
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Learning Italian – Day 7

Learning Italian – Day 7

Mar 7, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Today is Oscar time. Time to stay up late in front of the TV to watch countless boring thank you speeches and some emotional moments. Speaking of emotional Oscar moments, some of my favorites are the ones when Federico Fellini won an honorary Academy Award in 1993 (where three major figures of Italian cinema appeared on stage, Sophia Loren,...
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Learning Italian – Day 6

Learning Italian – Day 6

Mar 6, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 0 comments
Although I’m learning Italian only now, I read Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy La Divina Commedia years ago with an English/Italian bilingual edition. I don’t remember much of the work itself (I read it on the beach in Brazil, so I guess my brain prefers to block Dante and remember only the palm trees and the sun), but I do...
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Dicionário de português grátis para iPhone e iPod touch [Free Portuguese dictionary for iPhone and iPod touch]

Dicionário de português grátis para iPhone e iPod touch [Free Portuguese dictionary for iPhone and iPod touch]

Mar 6, 2010 | Categories: language|idiomas, português | 0 comments
No dia 1/3, a Priberam, empresa portuguesa responsável pelo ótimo corretor ortográfico FLiP e pelo dicionário de português mais consultado na internet (segundo o release da empresa), lançou uma versão desse dicionário para ser baixada e usada como aplicativo do iPhone e iPod touch. O Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (DPLP) é um...
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Learning Italian – Day 5

Learning Italian – Day 5

Mar 5, 2010 | Categories: English, language|idiomas | 1 comment
It’s Friday evening, and a long day is behind. I had so much work, some glitches with a CAT tool and an issue with my e-mail IMAP configuration, plus I worked on a very exciting project that you will be hearing of in the coming weeks. But I still had time to savor a glass of Italian Sangiovese wine and, of course, learn a bit more of the...
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