Portuguese (the language, that is)

[Fishface]

My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.

you should go and be a 'perma-tourist' - i.e nip over to Uruguay/Paraguay every three months for a day. I don't think you can be an illegal immigrant over there just 'irregular' - to which you can pay a fine and nothing more is said.

and get a feel for the place, cheap language courses, intercambio etc etc.

I would say to get a job from a Brazilian company in the UK - they will sort out the endless bureacracy, queues, paperwork, petulant civil servants and the general fun of leading the foreigner on a merry dance.

having said that - just save money here and have fun there, forget working!

[BlasterBates]

Admittedly it was just a TV program, but apparently Brazil is a popular destination for Portugese, in the TV program they were saying they were quite happy there. Brazil is up and coming so it probably would be a really interesting place to go for a while. My experience is once you live in a country you pick up the language quite quickly, much easier when you´re there. If you put your mind to it and you already have a background you should be able to speak reasonably within 6-12 months .

[Paddy]

Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.

All though the Brazilian economy is supposedly doing well; I don’t know if you have noticed the vast numbers of Brazilians who are coming to work in the UK. They vary from fat cleaners who are most un-hygienic to entrepreneurs. I chattered with some who opened up a business in Bournemouth (loads of Brazilians there) they said they came here because they were fed up with the high levels of corruption and crime Brazil. .

[OwlHoot]

Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.

Each to their own, but I find Portugese and Spanish horrible gabbly languages to listen to.

It probably isn't that hard to learn and understand them in written form though.

[MrMark]

Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.

I suspect the oral part of it will be hard - you will probably need lessons from a native speaker. I can speak/read Spanish, and if I read something in Portuguese I can normally understand or get the gist of 80-90% of it. However the strange pronunciation makes it very hard to understand someone who speaks Portuguese.

[Sockpuppet]

My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.

I wouldn't bother. By the time you get there they'd have given your hotel room to someone else.

[AtW]

I think if you cut down on your posting on CUK by 50% you'll learn 3 foreign languages in no time.

HTH

[petergriffin]

Anybody speaks fluent or decent Portuguese here? I can understand Spanish and Italian already. How long would it take me to speak decent Portuguese if I study, say, 2 hours a day? How different is Brazilian Portuguese from the one spoken in Portugal?

My plan is to start sending speculative applications to Brazilian employers to then obtain a working visa.