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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

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.


27 posted on 09/28/2022 1:26:00 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Well, that explains why it was too much work to read.


29 posted on 09/28/2022 1:32:12 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: packagingguy

“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.


41 posted on 09/28/2022 2:51:06 PM PDT by oldvirginian (When I was a kid I wanted to be older…this is not what I expected)
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