Minha jornada língua

Since October when Brazilian skateboarding was revealed to me, I started to teach myself Portuguese.  I already know Spanish so I thought it wouldn't be too hard to teach myself a romance language since I already know one.  Needless to say Google translate has become my new super best friend.  (See my devotion to it from the title.)

At this point, I can read news articles and understand most of it.  Its funny that I can read so much better than I can speak or understand it spoken. It definitely wasn't like this when learning English or Spanish.  I decided that if I stick to this for a year than I will actually go and take a class, but for now Living Language, YouTube videos, o globo, random sports articles, e os twitteros skatistas will have to do.

So far this has been a nice distraction and it makes me happy when I see myself making head way so quickly. I know in a few more months that I will probably hit a wall and that is the make it or break it phase where I will truly have to disipline myself and the hit the books hardcore.  I'm hoping by then I can find others that can speak the language so I can practice out loud to someone instead of just to my soul mate (my vaio).

I hope you look forward to random facts that I find out about Brazil and to more language learning stories from pit stops along the way.