Dear Nuno, I have them in printed form. I need to scan one of them and sent it to you.
Regards, Eugene On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 2:41 PM 'Nuno Cardoso da Silva' via Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Eugene, > > Learning a foreign language becomes difficult after a certain age. I tried > Mandarin for four years when I was already in my sixties, and I realized I > wasn't going to be successful, although I could recognize close to 1,000 > characters, about one third of what I would have needed...So I gave it up. > I wish I had started sooner... > > As to tranlating for you, if you can send me a copy of the text you would > like to have translated, I would very much like to give it a try. > > Regards > > Nuno > > > *Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2023 at 2:04 PM > *From:* "Eugene Correia" <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [GRN] Pamphlets > Dear Nuno, > > I did attempt to learn Portuguese. I bought the Linguaphone cassettes > about ten years ago. I did pick up some of it, but friends told me that you > got to have some Portuguese to converse daily. The best place in Toronto to > meet a lot of Portuguese people is downtown Toronto, where there's a club, > on College Street. > In the suburb of Milton, about more than an hour from downtown Toronto, I > didn't find people. I heard an elderly couple on the lawns speak in > Portuguese and I stopped to say hai. To keep up with the language one has > to use daily, isn't so? > My uncle, dad's cousin, wrote in three languages, English, Konkani and > Portuguese, and he was a journalist and freedom fighter. My dad didn't know > Portuguese, and so do in my extended family. Some just a shattering of > Portuguse. > I love the tone of the language. I am Bombay-born, educated and worked in > an English newspaper. I never lived in Goa, just went for holidays. > It's too late in the day, as I am in my mid-70s, to learn the language, > and not knowing how much I will use it. > Since I had the booklets, I just put on the GRN. My topic is Goa's > socio-political development in the post-61 era, with a little bit of > backhistory of the freedom struggle. I want to know if the then prevailing > debate whether it was Liberation or Annexation is still heard in selected > quarters. I would talk to some elderly people who lived in Portuguese Goa > and post-61. I need to get views from both sides. I have the book India's > Use of Force in Goa, by Prof. Arthur Rubinoff, though I can't find it right > now. I will search for it. I also told Arthur that the book is missing. To > cut a long story short, I gave access to a Goan and he took my whole > library. I had to go to Small Claims Court, paying $600 for a lawyer, to > get the books. Perhaps, he has kept some books hidden, as he didn't take me > to his house. He kept the books for me to take back in the garage. > Regards, > > Eugene Correia > > > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:44 AM 'Nuno Cardoso da Silva' via > Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Eugene, >> >> I do not have the possibility of translating all of them, but I would be >> happy to translate the one you felt would be of greater interest to you. >> Maybe other people could help with others. >> >> Please do not take offense, but I sometimes wonder why more Goan people >> do not take the trouble to learn some Portuguese. It is the sixth most >> spoken language in the world and it must for sure have a place in your >> cultural history. >> >> All the best >> >> Nuno Cardoso da Silva >> >> >> *Sent:* Sunday, December 03, 2023 at 11:36 PM >> *From:* "Eugene Correia" <[email protected]> >> *To:* "Goa-Research-Net" <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* [GRN] Pamphlets >> >> Going through some of my collections I found some pamphlets, mostly in >> Portuguese. I don’t read or understand Portuguese. These are mostly from >> Portuguese government departments or agencies. >> >> Here they are: >> >> >> >> 1. Goa na Historia da Civilizacao, Dr. Socrates da Costa, August 14, >> 1947. The doctor was an MP, I suppose. >> >> 2. Principios duma reforma agraria (Communidades de Goa). Discurso >> proferido por Sua Ex O Governador Geral, 22 Setembrro de 1946.. >> >> 3.Principes et Institutions de E’Etat Nouveau Portugais (Le Portugal >> D’Aujord’Hui) >> >> 4. A HEROINAS DE DIU (GRANDES PORTUGUESAS) >> >> 5. With Friendliness (On the Plane of Principles) (Coleccao de >> Divulgacao e Cultura) >> >> 6. O Melhor Caminho (The Best Way) by Cultura (with English translation) >> >> 7. Independencia de Portugal — 1150, 1640, 1940 (Edicoes da Comissao >> Nacional) >> >> 8. 20 Years of Mighty Achievements (28th May 1926 — 28th May 1945) In >> English. >> >> 9. The Rights of Portuugese India (A lecture delivered at the Sociedade >> de Geografia in Lisbon, on March 14, 1950) Alberto Xavier. In English. >> >> 10. Here It Is Portugal Coleccao Divulgacaoe Culura. Speeches by Joao de >> Lucena, Portuguese Consul at Bombay. At a meeting held on 31st October >> 1949. One on Assertions of Loyralty of the Goan Community of Madras: by FX >> Fernandes, resident of Madras; We Goans, speeech broadcast on the night of >> Sept 20th, 1949 by Dr. Socrates da Costa, President of the “Uniao National >> and Deputy of the Portiuguese India in the National Assembly. Also writing >> by Menezes Braganza. >> >> 11. Ao Cabo de um ano de caminho, Dr. Jose Bossa, July 1, 1947. >> >> 12. A Lusiranizacao de Goa, Artigo original de Mariano Saldo. >> >> 13. Portugal and its Overseas Provinces, the Case of Goa. Agencia Geral >> do Ultramar. Excerpt from Dr. Salazar’s address to his council of ministers >> in July 1953. >> >> 14. 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