This is not just to sate my appetite, but also because I want to go to the Azores someday and would like to speak the language. I've been trying to learn Portuguese for years, but bookstores only carry resources to learn the Brazilian Dialect (This includes the Rosetta Stone software I see in commercials all the time). I looked at the catalogs for every college in Florida I could think of, those that teach Portuguese, all teach the Brazilian dialect. I know the dialects are different enough I should try to learn the European variety. So I found a website online that lists teachers of all sorts of different languages and found some that taught purely online....I found a man in Texas, but he said that since I was more interested in the archipelagos, they have their own dialect and I'd be better off trying to find someone who speaks that dialect if possible! (this was news to me). So, does anyone here teach Portuguese or know a Portuguese teacher or at the very least the name of books that teach something other than Brazilian?
I'm a product of a family that strongly believed in totally americanizing. Portuguese was only spoken to other speakers, and never when someone who didn't understand it was around. My grandparents knew it because their parents didn't know english so well, but the next generation wasn't taught at all and so on. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
