On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 18:01, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: > On Qui 09 Jan 2003 15:40, Anne Wilson wrote:(down there!) > > Just another view. From a Brazilian English Teacher. > English is a very easy language when compared to other Indo-European Language! > Of course, we have the multiple meaning set to a single word but, that happens > on other languages as well.... maybe not THAT much. > > Portuguese, German and Languages from the former Soviet Union have a quite > complex grammar when compared to English. > > But from my professional experience, as Human Resouces Officer, British people > DO learn Portuguese much faster than Brazilian people take to LEARN English. > Unfortunately, I haven't see a single american learning Portuguese faster than > British people. > > Talking about cultures.... Do you know any other country with such a > multi-racial mix as Brazil? > > In the USA, they live together but, apart....they don't mix like here! > This pluri-cultural background makes it easy for us to relate and learn any > other culture. > > As mentioned on an USA magazine:"Brazil is a multi-racial melting pot" > > Maybe that's true but just come to our beaches (in the summer) and you will > see what I mean. Don't forget sunscreen.... you will need it!
> Ricardo After being raised in Detroit, Michigan, and living in quite a few states throughout my life, now in Australia - I have to say that Australia is quite a strange mix. Here, you can openly make racial jokes and take racial jokes from other cultures - AND IN GOOD HUMOR (oops - wrong spelling). I ran an IT department up in Sydney and we had "the mix" there - but we hung together as a team, and it was fun for the guys to "stick it to the yank" quite often - and me being a joker anyways, it was a great social learning experience - one that shall rank forever in my life. I was amazed at the diversity here - especially amongst the migrants from Asia - even though there exists a cultural "grouping" geographically, it's quite open and quite lax. I never knew what "melting pot" truly meant - especially with my background - but now I do - and maybe Brazil is as well - but this is where I'm staying! -- Fri Jan 10 18:05:00 EST 2003 6:05pm up 1 day, 7:47, 5 users, load average: 0.65, 0.39, 0.41 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ I will not drink! But if I do... I will not get drunk! But if I do... I will not in public! But if I do... I will not fall down! But if I do... I will fall face down so that they cannot see my company badge.
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