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    Portuguese (the language, that is)

    Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

    My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.
    <Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!

    #2
    I think if you cut down on your posting on CUK by 50% you'll learn 3 foreign languages in no time.

    HTH

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      #3
      Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
      My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.
      I wouldn't bother. By the time you get there they'd have given your hotel room to someone else.


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        #4
        Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
        Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

        My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.
        I suspect the oral part of it will be hard - you will probably need lessons from a native speaker. I can speak/read Spanish, and if I read something in Portuguese I can normally understand or get the gist of 80-90% of it. However the strange pronunciation makes it very hard to understand someone who speaks Portuguese.
        Speaking gibberish on internet talkboards since last Michaelmas. Plus here on Twitter

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          #5
          Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
          Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

          My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.
          Each to their own, but I find Portugese and Spanish horrible gabbly languages to listen to.

          It probably isn't that hard to learn and understand them in written form though.
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            #6
            Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
            Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

            My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.
            All though the Brazilian economy is supposedly doing well; I don’t know if you have noticed the vast numbers of Brazilians who are coming to work in the UK. They vary from fat cleaners who are most un-hygienic to entrepreneurs. I chattered with some who opened up a business in Bournemouth (loads of Brazilians there) they said they came here because they were fed up with the high levels of corruption and crime Brazil. .
            "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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              #7
              Admittedly it was just a TV program, but apparently Brazil is a popular destination for Portugese, in the TV program they were saying they were quite happy there. Brazil is up and coming so it probably would be a really interesting place to go for a while. My experience is once you live in a country you pick up the language quite quickly, much easier when you´re there. If you put your mind to it and you already have a background you should be able to speak reasonably within 6-12 months .
              I'm alright Jack

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                #8
                Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
                My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.
                you should go and be a 'perma-tourist' - i.e nip over to Uruguay/Paraguay every three months for a day. I don't think you can be an illegal immigrant over there just 'irregular' - to which you can pay a fine and nothing more is said.

                and get a feel for the place, cheap language courses, intercambio etc etc.

                I would say to get a job from a Brazilian company in the UK - they will sort out the endless bureacracy, queues, paperwork, petulant civil servants and the general fun of leading the foreigner on a merry dance.

                having said that - just save money here and have fun there, forget working!

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