After my last post, I went and studied two tapes of the first module of FSI Chinese and apart from it taking forever to get through, it was very useful! It focused on tones and had a couple of good exercises to practice distinguishing tones from one another. I think I'll continue with it.
As for Portuguese I took down a note on 'Por mais que' which means as 'Much as...' which I got off a nice wee blog for Portuguese speakers wanting to learn English. I wrote a new introduction on livemocha in Portuguese too and then read a message from a nice Brazilian guy who directed me to the site www.palcomp3.com which is a music site for independant Brazilian bands so that should help with my listening skills which I have definitely seen a bit of an improvement in recently.
Then I did another speaking exercise on livemocha and got '5 estrelas' which made me feel quite good.
Then I signed up to sharedtalk to practice speaking and my bottle crashed. In fact my bottle completely smashed into tiny little shards that it was no longer recognisable as the remains of a bottle. It's a great thing that the girl who I was speaking to was great at English. So then I decide to try to teach her a little French. I decided to translate 'I don't know what to say' in French only to forget halfway through, the French word for 'to say'. I give the girl a thumbs up for being able to understand my accent though! I might not be ready to start speaking but I'm a introverted person who doesn't talk a lot. After reading an article on a blog I've know forgotten about the 4 different skills in language learning [Reading, writing, listening and speaking] and how people often never get round to speaking a language after studying it for so long, I decided that I'm not going to let that happen to me and I'm going to practice potentially the most important skill in language learning. It didn't go at all like planned but I have to persevere.
Update 21:21
I need to start learning everyday language [not colloquialisms but language about hobbies, sports, food, routine etc] before things such as dieta, nutrição, viagens. So my new topic is hobbies!
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