Watching your video, I realized that you don´t have to know every little rule to speak well. After a while when you get comfortable with the language and a bit self assured, you can develop a sort of intuition that helps you guess the meaning or the way the language is constructed with the different meanings as in "de manhã" and "da manhã'. You ear gets gradually trained within the context of the sentence and it helps to get more fluent gradually as your confidence increases. Of course, you want to check the masculine and feminine genders of the nouns and corresponding articles. It was the way I acquired fluency in English after getting tired of checking my dictionary every five words when studying in college. Then I felt relieved and unburdened and my shyness went away. That helped me to gain some speed and some sleep. I am sure your students appreciate the encouragement you provide in your lessons. Even until now, I don´t know the dictionnary exact definition of a word, but I can guess pretty closely the meaning in Portuguese to be sufficiently understood. These little "dicas" help the students to free themselves of the normal fear of not speaking perfectly. I try to always make sure to research the meanings before teaching an English or French class . That´s why and how I became addicted to grammar and spelling. After all, grammar, rules and practice are simply the tools to be able to go on to fluency and mastery and instilling confidence.
Yes, exactly!! Unless you're taking an academic exam, what's more important is to understand and be understood, even if some of the words aren't "grammatically" correct. Thank you so much for the support and comments.
Olá Adelina, excelente e muito útil. It´s nice to see your pretty face. Thanks for posting advice on not to worry because of different accents. Sometimes when i hear teachers from other regions, I wonder what kind it is. But It´s good to have different kinds of regional accents. I always encourage my students to listen to various accents so as to get a taste of the places and history of language evolution. Would you believe, when I was 7, I still didn´t know how to tell time and couldn´t tell my right hand from my left one. I was a little shy and didn´t have a watch to practice! And I still don´t wear a watch, but I can tell what time it is by the sun, mais ou menos 5 ou 10 minutos. Obrigadinho pelo esforço e bom trabalho!
I like to point it out because most language courses, in particular grammar books and official courses (in most languages) are always recorded and written in what's considered the standard version of that language. Most of the time that means whatever the version is spoken in the capital or largest cities of that country. That's great if you intend to live there. But they forget that many people don't move to these locations. I've lost count of the hundreds of people who have done course after course, yet struggle to understand the people at the vegetable stand or fish counter in the local markets. Regarding time, as it involves numbers, this is always a topic high up there in difficulty for learners in terms of pronunciation.
@@PortuguesewithadelinaVery true. You are right. A lot of English students come to see me complaining that they can´t pronounce correctly the words, that there must be something wrong with them. No wonder, they never had a single class on how to pronounce correcty for lack of knowledge of basic morphology, i.e. of the mouth cavity and the upper respiratoy system. After 2 or 3 sessions of explaining and practice of the different parts and their placement plus the exercizes using them, they are stunned that they can pronounce the words adequately. My phonetics class for the MA degree wa led by a professor who besides being a very good teacher was one of the first to create a prototype of a text to Speech machine. On a quest to find the best accurate accent in France (if there is such an animal), he made speech samples of diverse professional and working class people across France with a hidden tape recorder on his person in orderto not muddy the sample which a phenomenon of people trying to remember and reproduce the accent that they think is the best French accent. Then, going back to the California University lab, he dissected the interviewees´ conversations into single phonemes with the accentuation, stresses and analysed the corpus data with a spectrograph. He found out that the best and accurate speech was found in the middle to upper class slice that belonged to the upper tier with a comfortable revenue source. So we concluded that there exists a great sample of people that represent the best example of spoken French. the would make sense to me because of the high concentration of persons participating in the evoution of their language after so many centuries of history, invasions and conquest in one place. Guess what? I had the distinguished honor of being assigned the analysis of the humble phoneme "A". which i received with great enthusiasm. I also was given the priviledge of teaching a phonetics class to the French undergraduate students as well as beginning to advanced French levels with a comfortable stipend added to my my tuition waiver for 2 years. I was the lucky guy for which I am very grateful.
@@Portuguesewithadelina There will always exist a tug of war between the academia ivory tower kind of professors and intelligencia and the textbooks publishing houses and we, labourers who love to teach as a vocation to give the best of what we have learned and are still learning and worked in the field where the curtain opens up to he reaiity of every day life.
Love your channel and your teaching methods. I understand you have a waiting list for students, are you still adding people to the waiting list? I would love to be under your instruction! I do not mind to wait until you have more availability. Please let me know.
Very useful and I really like the presentation. Thank you. 🙂
De nada! I'm glad it's helpful :D
Renewed my membership. One of the best European Portuguese channels here in my opinion.
Useful video. Tnx for put effort into it.
Thank you for watching and commenting. I'm glad it's useful :D
Valeu!
Muito obrigada!!
Watching your video, I realized that you don´t have to know every little rule to speak well. After a while when you get comfortable with the language and a bit self assured, you can develop a sort of intuition that helps you guess the meaning or the way the language is constructed with the different meanings as in "de manhã" and "da manhã'. You ear gets gradually trained within the context of the sentence and it helps to get more fluent gradually as your confidence increases. Of course, you want to check the masculine and feminine genders of the nouns and corresponding articles. It was the way I acquired fluency in English after getting tired of checking my dictionary every five words when studying in college. Then I felt relieved and unburdened and my shyness went away. That helped me to gain some speed and some sleep. I am sure your students appreciate the encouragement you provide in your lessons. Even until now, I don´t know the dictionnary exact definition of a word, but I can guess pretty closely the meaning in Portuguese to be sufficiently understood. These little "dicas" help the students to free themselves of the normal fear of not speaking perfectly. I try to always make sure to research the meanings before teaching an English or French class . That´s why and how I became addicted to grammar and spelling. After all, grammar, rules and practice are simply the tools to be able to go on to fluency and mastery and instilling confidence.
Yes, exactly!! Unless you're taking an academic exam, what's more important is to understand and be understood, even if some of the words aren't "grammatically" correct. Thank you so much for the support and comments.
@@Portuguesewithadelina Noblesse oblige! Thanks to you.
Olá Adelina, excelente e muito útil. It´s nice to see your pretty face. Thanks for posting advice on not to worry because of different accents. Sometimes when i hear teachers from other regions, I wonder what kind it is. But It´s good to have different kinds of regional accents. I always encourage my students to listen to various accents so as to get a taste of the places and history of language evolution. Would you believe, when I was 7, I still didn´t know how to tell time and couldn´t tell my right hand from my left one. I was a little shy and didn´t have a watch to practice! And I still don´t wear a watch, but I can tell what time it is by the sun, mais ou menos 5 ou 10 minutos. Obrigadinho pelo esforço e bom trabalho!
I like to point it out because most language courses, in particular grammar books and official courses (in most languages) are always recorded and written in what's considered the standard version of that language. Most of the time that means whatever the version is spoken in the capital or largest cities of that country. That's great if you intend to live there. But they forget that many people don't move to these locations. I've lost count of the hundreds of people who have done course after course, yet struggle to understand the people at the vegetable stand or fish counter in the local markets. Regarding time, as it involves numbers, this is always a topic high up there in difficulty for learners in terms of pronunciation.
@@PortuguesewithadelinaVery true. You are right. A lot of English students come to see me complaining that they can´t pronounce correctly the words, that there must be something wrong with them. No wonder, they never had a single class on how to pronounce correcty for lack of knowledge of basic morphology, i.e. of the mouth cavity and the upper respiratoy system. After 2 or 3 sessions of explaining and practice of the different parts and their placement plus the exercizes using them, they are stunned that they can pronounce the words adequately. My phonetics class for the MA degree wa led by a professor who besides being a very good teacher was one of the first to create a prototype of a text to Speech machine. On a quest to find the best accurate accent in France (if there is such an animal), he made speech samples of diverse professional and working class people across France with a hidden tape recorder on his person in orderto not muddy the sample which a phenomenon of people trying to remember and reproduce the accent that they think is the best French accent. Then, going back to the California University lab, he dissected the interviewees´ conversations into single phonemes with the accentuation, stresses and analysed the corpus data with a spectrograph. He found out that the best and accurate speech was found in the middle to upper class slice that belonged to the upper tier with a comfortable revenue source. So we concluded that there exists a great sample of people that represent the best example of spoken French. the would make sense to me because of the high concentration of persons participating in the evoution of their language after so many centuries of history, invasions and conquest in one place. Guess what? I had the distinguished honor of being assigned the analysis of the humble phoneme "A". which i received with great enthusiasm. I also was given the priviledge of teaching a phonetics class to the French undergraduate students as well as beginning to advanced French levels with a comfortable stipend added to my my tuition waiver for 2 years. I was the lucky guy for which I am very grateful.
@@Portuguesewithadelina There will always exist a tug of war between the academia ivory tower kind of professors and intelligencia and the textbooks publishing houses and we, labourers who love to teach as a vocation to give the best of what we have learned and are still learning and worked in the field where the curtain opens up to he reaiity of every day life.
These are brilliant
Thank you!!
Love your channel and your teaching methods. I understand you have a waiting list for students, are you still adding people to the waiting list? I would love to be under your instruction! I do not mind to wait until you have more availability. Please let me know.
Are you available for private lessons
Hi! Not at the moment. I'm currently not available and have a waiting list. I'm so sorry I can't be of help at this time.
@@Portuguesewithadelina i completely understand thank you for responding