Mistakes

''What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!''

 - Alfred Adler

All kind of birds!!!

Hi, little friends, how are you?

I was going to talk about our last class, but I forgot my book in home, so I decided to share this wonderful picture I found on Facebook. What do you think? This pic got me a thought. Once, a friend of mine said she had dreamed in English. And she told me that she was happy because when this happens it means your learning is finally achieving your brain in an unconscious way. Why did I think of that?  Well, because when you are reading a text, you don't know what some words mean, but you can understand them by context, right? I said that because I don't know what hatchling, nestling, fledglin and dromaeosour mean, but it's possible to infer from their definitions. In other words, you don't have to look at a dictionary everytime. We're close to a level where we can learn more and more by inference as we do in Portuguese. And that's a sign that you're in a great step of your goal which is to speak English well. Congratulations, fellows! ;)

Must and might

Hi!

Look at this answer I got from a Facebook's page. I join this page on Facebook where there are students of Portuguese and English from different countries. And I asked there if they could help me with this doubt. I hope it helps you too. Pay atention what the guy answered when I asked if he would mind about to put his explanation here: "I would not mind". These modals are really important! Lol!

How do we say it?

Hello, guys! How are you?

I want to share with you something I found really interesting. You know that we have some words in Portuguese which have same pronunciation even though they are written in a different way, right? Well, they exist in English too. What differentiates them in the speaking is the context. Here it comes a list.

• You have to speak aloud. /  You can't go into the office. You're not allowed.
• I ate eight apples.
• Write in the board "I am bored!".
• When the serial-killer have breakfast, does he eat cereal?
• I can't see my eye at the mirror.
• I flew with this flu. What could I do?
• Was the e-mail sent by a male or a female person?
• When you meet him, did you eat meat?
• You didn't write correctly, right?

Well, these are just some examples. If you have more, please, leave a message.  :)

First kiss

Did you see that?

The idea is amazing but it seems a little weird, don't you think? I mean, I think they have never met before, but they weren't totally uncomfortable.

I've read in a comment: 'It's usual to see that in the night (yes, I used to go out many years ago and I saw couples doing it a hundred times!) but it doesn't mean that it wasn't a good video.'

Did you note that there were two guys that didn't kissed each other like the rest? Their kiss were shy and after they hold each other. It was like they had an affair and had just broken down. Like, 'it was good, but I have to live my life and you have to live yours and goodbye!'

I understood almost everything they say, but there are a couple (she looks a little older than the guy) that I could not understand. Could you? If you did, please, tell me.

Well, nobody can deny that the song is awesome! It's called 'We might be dead by tomorrow'. Its name attracts my attention for two reasons: a) the use of 'might'. It was used just like a possibility, a speculation. And, b) the 'by tomorrow'. If I have to translate its title from Portuguese to English, something like 'Podemos estar mortos amanhã.' I probably would do it 'We might be dead tomorrow' not 'by tomorrow'. Anyway, this is the kind of stuff we can't learn without practice, right?

See you!  :)

The "th" sound

Guys, I found a wonderful text giving some tips about how to pronounce the "th" sound correctly. It's a nightmare to me and maybe for you too. Have a nice weekend!

Family tree

Have you ever tried to know more about your family? If you do, maybe you want to know that there is a website where you can find out a lot of information about your relatives. It's called ancestry.com. You just need to put your parents information and add their parents information and go on until you build your family tree.

In this text, you can read more about it!

Even if you don't find anyone, it's a best way to remember relative names. ;¬)

Is your PC too slow?

Here you'll find two great hints to turn your computer faster again like it was when you bought it.

World Wide Cell Phone Etiquette

That's an interesting text about how people use cell phones around the world. Do we use them correctly here in Brazil? I'm not sure!

To read the text you can click here.