How to Spell Again How to Spell Learn
Like our grandson who is in Kindergarten, we are "dorsum in school" and learning to spell! Well this is probably a lot more hard for us! Nosotros are taking a ZOOM Portuguese grade with nigh 6 other students and we run across once a week for 90 minutes.
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One of the commencement lessons is to learn to spell our names! That may sound silly only when you consider the Portuguese trying to empathise and write names of people from all the different nationalities here...well it makes sense.
In that location are NO Portuguese words with the messages K-W-and Y and in fact these 3 letters were just added to the alphabet in 2009 so Portuguese could spell our foreign names. Aren't Jack and I special?!!
Unlike Spanish that has merely 5 vowel sounds, Portuguese has 15 vowel sounds (that's why the Castilian who come just over the border for Port Wine or the Portuguese who cross the border for cheaper fuel can't empathise each other 😆).
For example the letter A tin can exist written (and pronounced) four ways: à á â ã. The use of the grave accent (à), acute accent (á), the circumflex emphasis (â), the tilde (ã), and the cedilla all announce the amount of stress in the word. We get a little relief because simply the letter C has the little tail called cedilla (ç). I have learned that my iphone tin change the letters by but holding downward the letter and choosing from the "drop down".
In addition to the vowels, the Portuguese language has many "nasal" sounds such equally in Olhão (the "ão" sounds like the English "ow" but with a little nasalization added in. Oh, and another unique Portuguese pronunciation....they "consume" the ends of the words- ofttimes the Due east! Then Boa Tarde (good afternoon) is pronounced "bo-tard". I won't fifty-fifty become into the silent "h" or how they smoosh the words together so it'due south incommunicable to hear individual words. OK, time for another Galão
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| Galão is hot java, like a latte, served in a glass price €1 |
Jack is enjoying trying to understand the government in Portugal every bit nosotros are currently in the eye of elections. This is no like shooting fish in a barrel task since the TV commentators speak, of course, in Portuguese. But expect it's not anywhere near like in the U.S. Basically there take been 2 major political parties in Portugal-the Partido Social Democráta (PSD) and the Partido Socialista (PS) since the 1974 Carnation Revolution. The PSD are center right and the PS are center left only neither party gets enough votes to have a bulk. In that location are ix political parties with candidates running in the election. In gild to form a government each political party must align themselves with other parties to accept a majority.
In the past few years the PS has allied themselves with the Communists and the "Greens" to form a majority. Information technology was rather unusual to see these posters!
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| Strange bedfellows or savvy political brotherhood? Portugal Communist Party and the Dark-green Political party |
Final November however these two smaller parties broke with the PS over the country'southward budget. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (elected every 4 years) dissolved Parliament and called for snap elections which volition take place the end of Jan 2022. The electioneering for the new parliament simply lasts TWO WEEKS and then it is rather easygoing.
We were very excited to be able to obtain our Eu Vaccine Covid Certification that essentially converted our U.S. CDC vaccine carte into a digital record for the EU. This, in theory, should enable usa to travel without getting additional Covid tests and allow u.s. to enter restaurants and events.
Portugal is in the Western Europe Time Zone which is the same as GMT (Greenwich Hateful Time-London). We are either 7 or eight hours alee of our grandsons, in Idaho and Oregon, which make for lots of questions.
When nosotros video phone call they ever ask what fourth dimension information technology is or want to see outside how dark it is!
Did you know that the Time Zones were adopted past the Railways in the late 19th century to synchronize train schedules!
To cease with another bit of trivia: Portugal has two fourth dimension zones (mainland & Madeira Islands and GMT-1 in the Açores (Azores Islands) while there are 9 time zones in the U.Southward. and its territories, they include Eastern, Primal, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii-Aleutian, Samoa, Wake Isle, and Guam.
We had fun making tapas for dinner: garlic prawns with sun dried tomatoes, stuffed mushrooms, chickpeas with spinach, piri-piri sausage and chicken empanadas
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