Well with exactly four months to go until the adventure starts, I thought it would be good to introduce you to a new challange we're facing before we leave.....LEARN PORTUGUESE! as we are going to brazil for a considerable amount of time our travel adviser at STA told us plainly our school level french and spanish was not going to get us by. Actually he said that as two young girls travelling alone in brazil it would probably be wise to know some of the language. this not only scared us but made us think we had to learn portuguese fast!! gone are the days of textbooks and language tapes, nowadays there are so many online portals that allow you to learn a language, as well as apps and podcasts. It's much quicker and easier, if a tad less fun in my opinion. Anyways i've been checking some out, here are the results! I'm no expert yet but I'll update with any progress made!!
2. http://www.101languages.net/portuguese/ - also basic but gets to the point quickly
3. http://www.portuguese-flashcards.com/ - a more fun one but you have to start paying for premium content
4. http://www.babelnation.com/portuguese/ - one of my favs
5. For all you iphone users out there this is suppose to be great - http://www.byki.com/iphone/iphone.html
I'm also going to start downloading podcasts onto my ipod and listen to them in the gym, kill two birds with one stone...I'll be Gisele Bundchen before you know it - amazing beach bod and perfect brazilain esc portuguese!!! HX
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