[AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-09 Thread Herb
The best place to learn new languages is the local library. If you live near a good sized library they will have books and CDs and DVDs even the old cassette tapes. My wife learned a lot of European Portuguese by borrowing these materials from the library. Good luck.. Herb -- For options, suc

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread Anthony Soares
AH thank you Mary and Helen. Tony On Friday, December 6, 2013 9:02:35 AM UTC-8, Mary Bordi wrote: > > Check out Maria Oliveira. And she is from the Azores. > > http://www.marialanguages.com/ > > Mary > > > > > On Thursday, December 5, 2013, Anthony Soares wrote: > >> Does any one out there know a

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread Helen Huckobey
an Portuguese. > > > http://www.marialanguages.com/index.shtml > > > Best, > helen cunha kerner > > > > > From: "ttcost...@aol.com" > To: azores@googlegroups.com > Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 6:55 AM > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Europ

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread Mary Bordi
Check out Maria Oliveira. And she is from the Azores. http://www.marialanguages.com/ Mary On Thursday, December 5, 2013, Anthony Soares wrote: > Does any one out there know a good source to learn European as opposed to > Brazillian Portuguese ? > > -- > For options, such as changing to List,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread helen kerner
To: azores@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese? Anthony, I try to pull everything I can together: 1.  RTPi - I watch mostly after my family goes to bed. 2.  A Live class (was in Brazilian, but I learned of a textbook, Ponto de Encon

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread Anthony Soares
uot;CD > courses"/Pimsleur/Living Language are a good start, but to get deeper, we > need to pull from everywhere we can, since we're not immersed. > > Take care. > > -Trevor > -Original Message- > From: Anthony Soares > > To: azores > >

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread ttcostadc
Anthony Soares To: azores Sent: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 10:48 pm Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese? Does any one out there know a good source to learn European as opposed to Brazillian Portuguese ? -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread Ângela Loura
It's called "European Portuguese" and "Brazilian Portuguese". In Portuguese the terms are "Português Padrão"/"Português Europeu" or "Português de Portugal (PT/PE), and "Português do Brasil" (PB). 2013/12/6 João Ventura > Hi all, > > Cheri, normally it's called European Portuguese, or Portugues

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread ttcostadc
azores Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 3:10 am Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese? Hi all, Cheri, normally it's called European Portuguese, or Portuguese Portuguese (!).. As opposed to Brazilian, Angolan, etc. Only people living in an island (i.e. the Azoreans), would ever call it

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-06 Thread ttcostadc
"comboio" vs. "trem". It is good to see Pimsleur still does a European version for adults. -Trevor -Original Message- From: João Ventura To: azores Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 3:10 am Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese? Hi all, Cheri, normally it'

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2013-12-06 Thread João Ventura
Hi all, Cheri, normally it's called European Portuguese, or Portuguese Portuguese (!).. As opposed to Brazilian, Angolan, etc. Only people living in an island (i.e. the Azoreans), would ever call it "Continental". Brazil, by itself is more of a continent than mainland Portugal is, in any circu

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-05 Thread Cheri Mello
Tony S, I learned it was called "continential" Portuguese. I'm sure everyone has their favorite. I bought cassette tapes back in the day that came with a course book. It was the Living Language series. Google: living language continental portuguese Amazon.com sells it still on cassette or CD.

[AZORES-Genealogy] European Portuguese?

2013-12-05 Thread Anthony Soares
Does any one out there know a good source to learn European as opposed to Brazillian Portuguese ? -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the bl