Welcome to this blog

Introduction

Welcome to this brand new weblog called "Learning Portuguese 101".

As the title states this weblog is about learning Portuguese. But it doesn't sum up to the language aspects, it's my intention to cover also some particularities of the tradition, culture, music and food of the lusophone countries.

If you have come to this blog, changes are that you are interested in learning the Portuguese language, or at least interested in knowing a bit more about the language and culture of any of the Portuguese-speaking countries.

I never really loved the Portuguese language in the past. I didn't hate it, but i simply never really was a fond of it. It wasn't even my favorite subject at school and i had plenty of difficulties, like many other native-speakers; especially with its grammar.

Still does that makes me a good Portuguese teacher? In anyways, NO!!

But what i want to do with my blog is to give a certain help for beginners and introduce some aspects of my culture to everyone who wants to start learning it. Before, i thought most of people were only interested to learn Spanish, French or Italian and sometimes i would get pissed off and without understanding why...why do we see Spanish, French and even Italian as part of most language schools programs throughout the world? Why Portuguese isn't???

As someone who truly enjoys the chinese culture and have been to Hong Kong three times already, it makes me wonder why i can see language schools with Spanish, French, English, Italian and sometimes even German programs but no Portuguese at all, except as University program.

Maybe it's not enough exposed worldwide, even though i used to think it was because of Portugal not being internationally recognized as Spain, Italy, France, etc., but what about Brazil? Isn't Brazil known throughout the world by its beaches, soccer, and girls... Yes, but still many people believe that Spanish is spoken by Brazilians since it's a Latin America country. So this blog intends to promote my language and culture.

I sincerely hope i can attract more people to learn more about Portuguese and become interested by one of the western most spoken language...Just relax and have a nice time reading and discussing language learning.

PS: As i said it before, i'm not a Portuguese teacher. So if anyone has an appropriate method or if there's any mistakes with the language lessons posted on this blog, feel free to comment about it.