It took me extensive research to find a good website, as Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese are two different languages. Anytime I would use Google Translate to learn the language, Manny would laugh and say I sounded like a robot.
I'm so anxious to get a head start on this because I will feel like a foreigner enough without knowing the language. Things like Rosetta-Stone are rediculously expensive. My jaw dropped at the amount of money they ask for their software. LiveMocha is mostly user run. Anytime I do writing exercises or speaking exercises, I get comments and pointers from native speakers. I know this could be scary, since I know many Americans who butcher the English language. I have to have faith, otherwise I will never move forward.
So I have some work to do, and putting yourself out there like this for others to critique is not easy in itself. Manny thinks it's cute when I butcher his language. I need someone who will show me how and this website has been most helpful. Granted it does not start with basics like numbers, letters, months, etc. It just jumps right into the language.
Four years of high school Spanish helped in some aspects, at least I can understand some of the words, even if I do want to roll my R's or tilde my N's.
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