Check out the steps Sacha did to learn the language on his own. The first one? Get out of your house and communicate; pay attention to the way people talk around you. We agree with that! Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Everybody does it! Also, you can take online classes with a Native Speaker to make this learning process faster. Take a 30-minutes Trial and begin speaking with ease!...
Read MorePortuguese is currently the 6th most widely spoken language in the world! There are over 260 million speakers of Portuguese from Europe to Africa, Asia to North and South America – with large Lusophone communities in the U.S., including Massachusetts (one of the most difficult words for Brazilians to pronounce!), Florida, New Jersey, California, New York, and others. The language is extremely important in the world economy. If you want...
Read MoreLearning a language has a lot of benefits... "A high tolerance of ambiguity brings many advantages. It helps students become less anxious in social interactions and in subsequent language learning experiences. Not surprisingly, the more experience a person has with language learning, the more comfortable the person gets with this ambiguity. And that’s not all. Individuals with higher levels of tolerance of ambiguity have also been found to be more entrepreneurial (i.e.,...
Read MorePortuguese and English: One happy language family People interested in language learning are always asking me: “Is Portuguese a hard language to learn?” My answer remains the same: “Well, it depends.” That’s because there are 7,102 distinct living languages estimated to exist in the world (Ethnologue, 2015). Both English and Portuguese belong to the Indo-European family, which contains approximately 445 other languages, including French, Russian, Dutch, Greek and Icelandic. In fact, native...
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