After my laptop charger failed to work, I've been forced to use another old computer in it's place. I used to use this one all the time but then it broke and everything had to be wiped off it. However, I've decided to start a new anki on this computer which I will transfer onto my laptop to replace the old muddled up one. Taking advantage of books.google.com, I'm looking through the book 'A frequency dictionary of Portuguese' to increase my vocabulary which I think is the main thing slowing down my progress. I'm picking up vocabulary by topics and I'm currently finishing 'animais'. Anytime I look at a new word, I search that word into the searchbar on tatoeba which is a sentence database that I found and which currently contains about 5000 sentences. Currently my anki vocabulary stands at 193 and sentences at 81. Any additional vocabulary in the sentences are added to the vocabulary anki. Now just off to read a story in portuguese over the idiom ' lobo em pele de cordeiro' or 'a wolf in sheep's clothing'.
Update
After reading the story about the 'lobo em pele de cordeiro' I realised I only knew half the story. I knew about the wolf adopting the sheep's skin to deceive his prey but I didn't know about the ending where the shepherd went to the barn to get some meat for the next day and pulled out the wolf in sheep's clothing, the moral of the story being 'Sempre que nós enganamos os outros, pagamos pelo nosso erro logo em seguida' - Whenever we deceive others, we immediately pay for our error'. Anyway, I'm glad that I came across that story because I learnt something new due to being able to read a little in a foreign language. I gained some results of my language learning and it feels good ☺.
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