Portuguese on YouTube Resources

There are three YouTube channels I follow for learning Portuguese:

• Learn Portuguese with Dri and Lud
• Português com Marcia Macedo
• Street Smart Brazil

I know there are other good ones, but the above have appealed to me more.

Back and Sorry to Say...

UPDATE: 09/28/23

I just signed into my account and this post has been sitting in my drafts for the last five years! I'm publishing it, because why not. I'm also only focusing on Brazilian Portuguese. Yep, it beat out the other gazillion languages I was dabbling in. I want to get back to blogging about language learning again, so I guess this will be my reintroduction. :) Now back to that old draft, originally written in and waiting since 2018...

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted.  I've continued to be interested in languages, but fell away from learning regularly.  I recently moved back in with my parents for the time being, and had to box up most of my language books.  I did keep out my books for Bulgarian and Norwegian, since I had enough to make some progress in those two, but not so many resources that they would take up a lot of room on my small bookshelf.

I've been doing the Norwegian course on DuoLingo.  It's helped refresh my memory on pronunciation.  This means that obviously, I've decided to continue with that language, as well as the others listed in this post for now.  I'm also doing the Romanian Duolingo course.  

I think this program is a good stepping-stone into learning a language, and they offer a ton to choose from.  In reminds me somewhat of Pimsleur in that it jumps right in, so you learn things like pronuncation as you go.  I personally like this approach, especially when it comes to pronuncation.  It seems more natural to me.  I learned how to pronounce Spanish and Portugese (Brazilian) through music, before I ever thought of learning either of the two.  So, instead of a guide telling me approximate sounds, I made connections with the singing and lyrics.  Selena for Spanish, and Daniela Mercury for Portuguese were the two singers that got me into learning those respective languages.

Anyway, I got a little sidetracked.  The Duolingo app is great (I use the Android version.)  Here are the languages that are offered to English speakers...
~Chinese 
(I'm assuming this means Mandarin.)
~Dutch
~French
~German
~Hawaiian 
(I was gonna do this one, even though I'm not officially learning it.  I love Hawaiian music though, and can sing along pretty well if I have the lyrics.  Check out Robi Kahakalau.  I have her first three CDs, and they include both the Hawaiian lyrics + English translation, so it's interesting to see what's being said.)
~Irish
~Italian
(I may or may not try my hand at this one...I'm learning toward not the more I think about it, although I did purchase an old Hugo phrasebook from a thrift mall earlier this year.  I think I like the idea of speaking Italian more than actually learning it.)
~Japanese
~Korean
(Of the three popular East Asian languages, I like Korean, and did go through a couple lessons on Duolingo, but I decided not to continue - can't wrap my head around the characters.  I do like the look of Korean compared with Chinese and Japanese, and how the characters are put into little blocks.  A good Korean movie I watched recently is I Saw the Devil.  It's very violent and disturbing, so be warned.)
~Navajo
~Portuguese-Brazilian
~Russian
~Spanish
~Swedish
~Turkish

Pickles and Pizza

I'm hopeless.  Now I want to try to learn Korean again just from hearing them talk. 😂  

As for the pizza, New York style is my favorite.  I've never had Detroit style - reminded me of French bread pizza.  It's been forever since I've had Chicago style, so I have no opinion on that one.

They should've done St. Louis style too.  I'm not really from Missouri so I'm perfectly comfortable with saying, it's not that great but not terrible either (In Defense of St. Louis-Style Pizza - never thought of viewing it more as nachos but that is kind of true.)

I'm also perplexed about the pickle thing...   

Goodbye to Four

These are languages I'm dropping, because I will never get used to the whole pitch accent thing...

>Estonian

>Latvian

>Lithuanian

>Norwegian

Gotta downsize.  It's the only answer to my obsession. :D  

I'm planning on setting up a way to purchase the books I have thru PayPal.   Prices will be reasonable.  Most of the books I have were purchased used to begin with.  My hope and plan is to get that setup by Wednesday, so stay tuned if interested.

My Cringeworthy Bulgarian

Reading Bulgarian 

From yesterday: me reading the dialogue from lesson one in my Beginner's Bulgarian (Hippocrene) book.  Two couples are flying from New York to Sofia and are basically just getting to know each other: What do you do? Do you have any kids? blah blah blah, yada yada yada.  

I definitely got stuck here and there, and have no doubt my stress is wrong, pronunciation isn't great and who knows what else.  But hey, I tried.  In fact, I had to start over several times and finally just settled on this rendition.  I like the Bulgarian language though and want to get better at it, so any help is appreciated. :)

Shameless Plug

Three posts in one day!  Anyway, I wanted to promote my jewelry blog here, because well, why not?

Be sure to take a look at...
Kelly's Jewelry
My profile gives more info on my jewelry-making hobby (that I hope to turn into something of a career.)

As soon as it crossed my mind to post this, I was thinking of ways I could incorporate language into my jewelry.  Brainstorming session coming up... :)

Language Petals

I had originally left this blog to form a new one: LanguagePetals.  I guess my intention was for it to be a replacement language blog, but sort of became an everything blog for my interests.  Looks like my last post was Christmas 2015 - must've been the year I decided I was tired of blogging. ha!  

Anyway, if interested in seeing some of my language learning musings from that blog, just check out the CATEGORIES on the left sidebar.

I no longer update that blog. :)