Posted on 09/28/2022 12:19:23 PM PDT by Cathi
“He’s a native Portuguese speaker. Writing in another language can be difficult because the way you normally put things is different in other languages.”
Portuguese is a tough language, at least to me.
The placement of verbs is tricky when switching between languages, sometimes it goes before the noun, sometimes after. Then there are the tenses!
There are three main verb tenses: past, present, and future. In English, each of these tenses can take four main aspects: simple, perfect, continuous (also known as progressive), and perfect continuous.
Portuguese has SIX tenses!
Then there are the articles, definite articles and Dear Lord Above the conjugations!!
After studying Portuguese on my own for a year I can say I’ll never wonder why foreigners can’t speak simple English.
We had to destroy Europe in order to save it.
WEFCIA
This could knock parts of the EU back to the pre-industrial age.
Perhaps that was the plan all along. All part of the great reset.
Absolutely.
Battery back-up on that system?
...zero mention of this pipeline sabotage. Literally no one is talking about it. It’s as if the explosions never happened.
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I’m reading around the net that the state legacy global media is also silent. I do not watch TV, so IDK.
Anyone seeing news reports about this?
Do I have to make The Call on you for plagiarism?
actually even more tenses if you include all the subjunctives also. but no one uses certain ones (e.g. future subjunctive) outside of legal documents. spanish/port. also have 2 past tenses, the best model I had for them (with exceptions) is the ‘single action past tense’ and the ‘used to do this (ongoing)’ tense.
I would guess russia assumed this might/would happen, but for germany this is going to have profound permanent economic effects. their industrial base (what is left of it) is going to have a much higher cost structure than it did.
and they are going to shut up and take it.
Yes I have battery storage. Plus a couple of other things to get more goody out of the solar.
Odd wording...
Yeah, I was just doing a quick and dirty count of the tenses. I have a less than high school education and sometimes English is like Greek to me. 😵💫
Portuguese has been a whole nother world!
I’ve hit a wall so I’ve backed off of Portuguese and started a little Spanish. Related languages but different enough to be challenging. I’ll probably go back to Portuguese in a couple of months and review everything and start studying again.
I’m retired and I find it keeps my mind busy and helps pass the time.
they are so similar as to be confusing in written form.
but I believe for english speakers spanish is considerably easier to learn to speak/understand. what you see written is more or less what you hear. iberian spoken portugues is almost unintelligible coming from a latin american spanish background (or at least it was for me), and brazilian is a challenge as well given just how different pronunciation is.
Re: 9 - At the very least, you would think Biden would make a national speech explaining that if the situation degrades to a certain point, we may very well be in a nuclear war that could result in large numbers of Americans dying, but here is why that war is worth fighting.
He’ll never do it.
I have pretty much come to the conclusion that I should have learned Spanish first.
The app I’m using is Duolingo, it’s free and free to use so I know it’s not the best but it suits my purposes.
Spanish does seem much easier. I thought it may have been because I had spent a year on Portuguese but now that you mention it the pronunciations are close enough to English to be, I guess, more intuitive to English speakers. As long as you remember to roll your R’s and get the word gender right.
Masculine and feminine really threw me for a loop. I still have the occasional nightmare about trying to speak Portuguese and having people laugh at me for getting the word genders all wrong.
Duolingo uses the Brazilian Portuguese for it’s app and I completely understand what you say about pronunciation. The Brazilian Portuguese is also a bit less strict on the grammar than the Iberian Portuguese.
I don’t have to agree with Mr. Pepe but he always has something to ponder. He is the most pro-BRICs man around. I have seen his material at Unz.com. Pepe is 150% committed to the rise of the BRICs, and the decline of the US, Germany and UK. He always likes what Vlad and the CCP are doing to enlarge their spheres of power.
We can count on Comrade Cathy to make and post the detailed arguments that favor Russia. However, here is a very interesting line that gives Russian oligarcks a great motive to kill the Russian owned pipeline.
“Gazprom is legally entitled to get paid even without shipping gas. That’s the spirit of a long-term contract. And it’s already happening: because of sanctions, Berlin does not get all the gas it needs but still needs to pay.” So now Germany is required to pay Gazprom until 2030 no hope of gas. Of course if Russia had turned off the gas, Russia would be to blame and Gazprom would loose it’s claim to continued payment.
So this is one more motive for Russia to destroy the pipeline. Another motive is to enable General Winter to do its worst in Europe, so that by spring they will be more likely to press Ukraine into unfavorable peace talks. All Russia would have to do this winter is keep their footholds in the 4 voting sections, and Crimea.
This also makes it important to convince Europe that US/UK did it without consultation thus driving a wedge between the two sea powers and the European landpowers as advised by Comrade Alexander Dugin in hia writings and advice to Putin on how to make Russia great again. At this point I should repeat that anyone interested in understanding Putin’s goals would do well to read Dugin’s writings and book. This is as important now as reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf was in the 1930s. One Dugin goal was already achieved by separating UK from Europe with Brexit.
Regarding languages I have elsewhere pointed out the US does itself a disservice by not encouraging foreign language education in our schools. One weakness of the CIA in recent decades has been the move to data intelligence away from human intelligence. HUMINT is hard to develop if you don’t have skilled speakers of languages used where you need to gather intelligence by making friends with locals.
My guess at this point would be simple spite by a pissed-off Putin, angry that Europe is looking at alternative sources rather than abandoning Ukraine.
“Regarding languages I have elsewhere pointed out the US does itself a disservice by not encouraging foreign language education in our schools. One weakness of the CIA in recent decades has been the move to data intelligence away from human intelligence. HUMINT is hard to develop if you don’t have skilled speakers of languages used where you need to gather intelligence by making friends with locals.”
I couldn’t agree more.
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