learn Brazilian (Portuguese)

i need a tutor to learn portuguese

I live in the Bay Area, and have not been able to find ANYWHERE to learn or practice Brazilian Portuguese. The best I have found so far, are the Pimsleur Cd’s. I put them on my Ipod and listen on the way to work. It is a great program, but I’d learn faster if I had someone to converse with. That way I would learn to communicate in the language, instead of just learning and memorizing words and phrases…

My sister married a Brazilian guy and I really love to hear him talk. His English is also really bad and not getting better. So, I want to learn Portuguese. What a great sis-in-law would I be?!

Unfortunately there are no Portuguese classes that I can take near where I live so I decided to try Pimsleur and I’m on lesson 33 (or the 3rd lesson of Pimsleur’s Brazilian Portuguese 2) and I’m also in the middle of “The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese” book which comes with a CD and is written by someone whose first language is Portuguese, and she is also a professor. I’m liking both the book and Pimsleur quite a bit and hopefully I will get chances to speak with my brother’s wife (who is from Brazil) and my brother as well who probably knows much more Portuguese than I do. I’m having fun so far and am getting more confident with pronunciation.

I have no idea. But ever since I was a little kid, I knew that a lot of my family members lived in Brazil. But I’d never been there. So basically now that I’m older, I want to learn Portuguese and not just visit my family but teach there. I’d love to teach English to little kids and just appreciate the culture. How would I be able to do that with no knowledge of Portuguese? UGH. So I’m on my trek to learn…

so i just hooked up to ichat, so i can do video conferencing with my exchange student. any hints on how to communicate and speak in portuguese with out actually knowing any portuguese?

I had a brazilian exhange student for 6 months. It was really great. I am going to teach English and live in Brazil for 6 months in March of 07. I have been trying to learn portuguese. I started off with the book and am using Before you Know it. I like it because it is a very visual program, with a lot of repition. The Pemsleur program cost way too much. My goal is to spend an hour a day studying.

We had an exchange student from Brazil this year and he and his parents have invited us to visit them in Brazil. We all went out for dinner when he flew home and it was frustrating not being able to speak to his parents. [They don’t speak english] I’d love to be able to communicate with them when we go. What programs are best to learn brazilian portuguese?

which I’m sure is the best way for me to learn, I’m doing the Pimsleur tapes on my commute. It’s usually a half hour, perfect to finish one lesson each way. It’s a good break from listening to the news, which so rarely seems to change. sigh. Anyway, I checked the tapes out of the library last weekend, and I’ve done 3 lessons so far. I haven’t done the book (I’m not even sure if the library has that part—I have to go back and check), but I did check a different book out at the same time, so maybe I’ll take a look at it. Since I already speak Spanish, a lot of the grammar is familiar; I’m finding that I have to be careful about the things that are different, because if I don’t think about it, I slip into speaking Spanish. I figure that I’ll go slowly through Pimsleur and other self-study programs, and by that time my kids will be a bit older (youngest is 2.5), and I’ll have more time to take a conversation or grammar class. Having fun so far!

Alot of people complain about this program for some reason. I’m finding it great! I have alot of Brazilian friends here in my city, and I’ve been studying it for the last 5 months, and we’re all surprised at my progress. I think its easier for me because I have Brasileiros on hand, and I’ve studied it quite a bit before I hit Pimsleur .. but its really great, Im progressing heaps, and really proud of myself for it! Im glad I have the passion to learn this language, or else I would have disregarded it a long time ago. I just cant get enough of the brasileiros!! ahuahauhauhaua. Especially when I date them lol. Once you go Brasileiro (or Brasileira!!), you never go back!! I think, if you want to learn it, you should get there quite easy!! Learning a language should be fun, not a chore!!!