DON'T BE A JOEL SANTANA!! SPEAK ENGLISH HERE!

[Thanatos]

From now on, I will correct the english of those who write here. This ain't a promisse and I'll do this WHEN I feel like I want to. Be advised that if you think I'm an asshole for correcting, you are just a piece of shit who can't take criticism.

Criticism is good to improve. I know that my grammar is awful at moment, but there are no way to improve my English skills if i keep committing the same mistakes

[Gilgamesh]

Hey, modafockas , we have a nice thing here. I'll try to improve my poor knowledge with 'u all.

[Gandalf]

Hello my friends, how are you doing?

That's a long time I don't practice my english and to be honest I'm starting to forget it.. well done, let's get our assses out of the chair and move on.

Firstly, I'd like to recommend you, to have a better english, specially on formal ocasions, to stop using abbreviations.
As we (this community) also recommend in our mother language (portuguese), to communicate properly, we must learn all the possible tools a language can offer. With english language is not different. My personal advice is increase your brain structures, in order to have a faster response while thinking and comunicating, by learning without translation. You have to comprehend the words meaning by their own. This will strongly increase your communications skills, understanding and also listening, because you stop spending your attention to translate what people are talking, and begin to pay attention in what they are really trying to say, in fact using your brain to create answers.

In any other opportunity I talk about other things I have in mind. I beg your pardon if I sounded too repetitive, it's because it's a really long time I don't wright a few words in english, then my vocabulary is getting poor. I didn't check on internet if my text is all ok, neither new words, so if I made any mistake, sorry..

[Spectro]

O have a doubt.
How do you guys deal with heavy technical jobs.
I’m more of a people’s guys, I enjoy meeting new people and hearing the story of life of those people, but I struggle in heavy technical jobs that involves math or things like that.

[Gandalf]

you should've coursed human sciences bachelor degree in a federal university

[Senna]

(...) My personal advice is increase your brain structures, in order to have a faster response while thinking and comunicating, by learning without translation. You have to comprehend the words meaning by their own. (...)

I was reading and translating when I got to this part.

Thanks for advice.



In my previous post, when I commented Digons post,  I forget to say that Mandrake's case occurred with Cabraman, I never caught up Mandrake in posts, but a frequently merged Mandrake post floods, in their head I was supporting  Cabraman to grown on top posters, but never had a post race, it's only did exist in for him.

[Gilgamesh]

Good night, guys. At now, after a good working day, sitting in a pub and drinking the liquid yellow gold in bottle.   The flavour is fantastic, my sweat and my small victories.

Sometimes this is the only thing that one person, anyone person ,needs , the feeling of to have the power to guide tour life by your own hands. The funny thing is find this in a glass, lol.

PS : I forgot a lot of words, and of course, is horrible to face your low efficacy in another language.

[Digons]

Alright, Little Senna, time for some classes:

''I was reading and translating when I got this part''

Should have been ''...when I got TO this part''. If you translate what you wrote to portuguese, it would be something like ''...quando eu cheguei essa parte'' which doesn't make sense



In my before post (in my post FROM before) , when I commented Digons post, I forget to say that Mandrake (Viadão's. The 's is important. It clarifies that you are talking about something related to him) case occurred with Cabraman, I never catch up (''caught up'' as in past tense) Mandrake in posts, but a frequently merge(d) Mandrake posts (''post'' is enough, as in ''post floods'') floods, in their (HIS0 head I was supporting Cabraman to grown on top posters, but never had a post race, it's (it. No need for it's) only did exist in for him.''

Any doubts? I remind you that I'm a human being and I can also make mistakes

[Gandalf]

Very well Digons boy, I think these little corrections will make a huge difference in the way the fellows expresses themselves (giving my contribution, I would switch "post from before" to "previous post", it's less verbose.

By the way, according to I said before, when you switch your brain activity to think and understand english (when I say this, I mean completely forget portuguese and the manners we build sentences), you start to reorganize the words position and clearly things make sense in a different way. It's very important when you're communicating to strangers. I remember, when I was writing my bachelor thesys during my exchange studies, my supervisor said that I was using too many words to express what I was trying to say. She is scandinavian and compared to english, their language is more direct, they use less words to build sentences. I told her that portuguese is exactly the opposite. Compared to english, we use a lot more words to create sentences, hence I tried to compress the text as much as I could, to properly fit in an understendable language and she found it too verbose. Anyway, we reached a consense and everything went well.

Well, I used this example to say to you that the way we put the words makes total difference. That's why is important to forget our manners to create sentences in portuguese and switch automatically to english, which is a more direct language. This explain why is a bit difficult to comprehend comments on youtube made by americans, english, or other kind of strangers, because they have their unique way to express themselves, according to their language structures.

Think about that fellows, wish you all a very good weekend!

P.S.: I forget to mention before, that's a lovely initiative to have a thread to discuss everything in english, shall be a very good tool to encourage the guys in their english studies. Thanks to fellow Smith (which stole Senna's idea hahaha). I'm glad to help you in everything you need.

[loeb]

Hey Brother's!

Some Book's in English to Improve your vocabulary and learn new words.

- Book's Google Drive

Literature, Grammar, etc.

I Hope you like it.

[Thanatos]

https://www.rt.com/russia/442458-woman-s...a87gFYhV6A

‘I am a beast’: Social media stunned after woman stabs her ex… and takes a selfie with him bleeding

[Gilgamesh]

Good Sunday for you all, invisible society. At now sitting n drinking a cold beer, looking the girls passing by my side, and trying to write in this modern latim , lol.

I wonder in the fact that i learn , basically, everithing i know (not too much) about english by my self, a lot because my love for music, but at the same time, i feel my gap to express ,sometimes, simples things, só i ask for help to any person with onde of my doubts :

In the last friday we have in our country, like the tradicional costume in the USA, the day called Black Friday. Someone can say if in the Uruguay ,they have a Beck Friday ? Leftists are welcome to show us all acknowledge about this point.

Before i go i wanna say onde more thing. We , supporters of Vasco da Gama, are all saints , just waiting to be cannonized when we die. Now goodbye , i wish not to receive a Digons comment.

P.S. the Joel Santana Initiative is one of the most practical things that you do here in a long time. Congratulations.

[Senna]

The matrix is part of Real and a very special movie for me. I already watched the trilogy more than twenty times surely. I'm editing parts of matrix movies to training my English, is short videos with some minutes only with talk parts, in dual audio and dual subtitles, English and Portuguese in both. I going to create a google drive folder and to share with all you.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ss6Xyf...AvzbzthD0Q

[Thanatos]

An interesting exercise. Try listen this English video and reply to everything that he is saying about Bolsonaro. I will start,

0:20 - No, he is not facist. For the left everything that they disagree is facism, from monarchism to anarcho capitalism
0:40 - Out of contest. He said that Military dictatorship was a counter coup and that in the context of cold war with the population demanding military intervention, military dictatorship was nothing compared to what the left portraits.  
0:55 - No, was thanks to reforms on social democrats(center left) and commodity boom, not thanks to workers party. Also the highest growth on Brazil history was under the Geisel government(almost 10% per year)
1:42 - This makies no sense. Bolsonaro is married to a woman of mixed race(look to her photo, i can see obvious indigenous and afro traits on her). How an racist white nationalist can win in a white minority country??? Only because he is against affirmative actions to protect the majority from minority?
1:55 - No, he said that if a terrorist group planted bombs and the army have one of then in a prison, torture him to get information about the bomb is less evil than let everyone die. 
2:20 - Just angry words
2:42 - No, to RESEARCH on Amazonas, not to destroy
3:12 - Again, he was thinking that she said about homosexual relationship and he is married to a woman of mixed race 
3:35 - Again, if he is white supremacist, how he could marry an woman of mixed race and won in a white minority country?
3:47 - Affirmative action makes no sense. Mainly in a very mixed country. Someone can be "white" in Rio de Janeiro or "pardo" or even black on Santa Catarina(i saw this happens a lot)
3:52 - HE was accused of being racist
(...)

I got tired.If you wanna continue, please. try think on English, not think on Portuguese then translate.

PS : Sorry for my grammar.

[Senna]

What is the correct?


Are you afraid, communist?

Do you afraid, communist?

[Digons]

''Are you afraid, communist?'' Normally, we don't put adjectives after ''do you..''. Actually, I only put verbs after ''do you'' or any other person. If you want, I can explain that in portuguese

[Smith]

''Are you afraid, communist?'' Normally, we don't put adjectives after ''do you..''. Actually, I only put verbs after ''do you'' or any other person. If you want, I can explain that in portuguese

Portuguese is forbidden in this thread. What's up, bro? Do you wanna find me at midnight? LOL

Changing the subject, fellas, i was thinking about expressions that doens't exists in portuguese, at least literally.

For example:

You wear me out
Be my guest
He is a tough cookie
It is running out
Ten seconds to go
I was out of my mind

That expressions needs an INTERPRETATION in portuguese and not a translation exactly.

We lusophoners (is that correct??) are not used to do this when we're at a conversation, basically, we look to do the literally translation or conversation. Because of that, it's so important to keep studying to know the english above our native idiom rules. The grammar order and the meaning of some expressions is totally different from we are used to understand.

[Thanatos]

About international media, i never understood. Why the international media keep saying that Bolsonaro is racist and white nationalist? Only cuz some of his parents fought for wehrmacht? He is married to a woman of mixed race You can see clearly amerindian traits on her, you don't need to look into her family to notice this. I guess that she is castiza(1/4 amerindian - not sure) And how Bolsonaro could won in a white minority country if he is racist???

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[Smith]

About international media, i never understood. Why the international media keep saying that Bolsonaro is racist and white nationalist? Only cuz some of his parents fought for wehrmacht? He is married to a woman of mixed race You can see clearly amerindian traits on her, you don't need to look into her family to notice this. I guess that she is castiza(1/4 amerindian - not sure) And how Bolsonaro could won in a white minority country if he is racist???

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Get a thing: 

EVERYONE who is candidate to some position who is blamed as a racist, nazist, whatever, but actually is a honest guy, certainly is the right person.
EVERYONE who is candidate to some position who is called as a good guy, poors defender, friend of everybody, happy smile, whatever, but is a corrupt guy, certainly is the WRONG person.

[Senna]

A Holy Bible's advice about leftist comportment:

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" - Isaías 5:20