Tag: facebook

I don’t really use Facebook much, but I have a couple of groups I follow lazily and one of them is called Portugal De Antigamente. I like to make sure I’m reading social media by Portuguese people, not just groups that are just dedicated to learning Portuguese. It broadens the horizons a bit and gives you more of a sense of the culture that the language is rooted in.

I like this one because people share old photos, memories and objects they have from their childhood or recent family history. Here’s one from Helga Schmidt-Glassner, for example. I’ve just found an article about her and will probably make her the subject of a future post in her own right.

It’s nice to see a few people from Facebook reading my blog after I mentioned this post about my B1 exam on one of the portuguese language groups a couple of weeks back. Hello! I’ve been learning portuguese seriously for about 5 years from now and I would be really good at it if my brain wasn’t old and knackered. I live in London and my motivation for learning is that my wife is from Madeira and, although she speaks english better than most english people and all americans, it started to feel a bit pathetic that I wasn’t making the effort to break out of my anglophone bubble. I’ve been studying Scottish Gaelic and French during the lockdown too, But those are definitely just side-projects.

Most posts on here are just me doing my homework corrections online, and occasionally trying to grapple with things that I want to get my head around like awkward vocabulary, gender of nouns, tricksy grammar and subjunctives. I’m not claiming to be an authority on the language *at all* so don’t take this as gospel, but I’m glad people have found some of my posts useful.

If you’re a fellow-sufferer, say olá in the comments box.