I mentioned a while ago that I was going to appear on a podcast with Ângela from Learning Portuguese is Fun. She’s made it a theme of her current season that she invites on a couple of intermediate-level learners, and runs through a series of questions with them and then, after she edits it, gives her subscribers an exercise to correct the errors. She also goes through them with the learners of course. It seemed both fun and useful!
The questions are given out in advance for the students to think about but ideally should be fairly spontaneous, not just reading out prepared answers.
Unfortunately, I made a basic geographical error for which I blame Zoom: the invite said 3PM, which is fine, but I didn’t notice it also had the letters “CEST” after it. That’s “Central European Summer Time”. So although I had a chance to think about the answers on Thursday and Friday, I had planned to set aside an hour or so before the recording to get my brain and tongue warmed up, read through my notes and generally prepare myelf. But almost as soon as I sat down to do that, I got an email saying they’d already started and was I joining! Whoops! I’m more used to MS Teams and I think it would have handled the “fuso horário” better. Anyway, considering a cold start, I guess it wasn’t a total disaster, but I definitely made a lot of mistakes, talked too quickly because I was nervous, tripped over my tongue, went off on a few weird little tangents… Oh well, never mind, I’ll take all the speaking practice I can get! I might be on future episodes if she isn’t too traumatised by the amount of editing she had to do!
I was on with a Bosnian chap who I have to say, is obviously a faster learner than me because he’s alread speaking at a solid intermediate level despite being only about a year and a half into his learning journey, Impressive stuff!
The episode I’m in isn’t released yet, but if you want to hear this audio car crash yourself, you can subscribe here and snag the exercises here.
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