(June 3, 2014 at 10:58 am)pocaracas Wrote:(June 3, 2014 at 10:46 am)Losty Wrote: If it's not here then that works for me lol. I don't speak Portuguese but I think I could get by.
Everybody here speaks english... even if very badly.
I once heard something about the native English speakers learning a new language... I think it was Rory Sutherland:
Quote:But here’s the clincher. Suppose I do try to learn Dutch, because my life’s dream is to retire to Hindeloopen. For this to be worthwhile, it is not enough for me to speak tolerable Dutch. I would only really start to benefit once I reached a level of fluency where I can speak Dutch better than the average Dutchman speaks English. This would take years. A friend of mine, a linguist, learnt almost no Dutch living in Amsterdam since everyone switched to English in his presence. Budapest was worse: so few non-natives speak their language that Hungarians don’t know what a foreign accent sounds like. Instead of hailing him as a foreigner who had heroically mastered their intractable language, people assumed he was a Hungarian — but a dimwitted one with a speech defect.
The upshot? Every hour a continental European spends improving their English may bring several hundred times more value than a Briton can gain from an hour learning a European language. It’s not our fault.
Yes but that takes the fun out of it. :p
I will have to pretend I don't speak English to get people to speak Portuguese to me! Lol