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  nadia February 17, 2009 14:33

  Hi Nadia !!!!! thanks for your comment and the pleasure is mine. As you know I recide in the U.S.A, but i'm originally fro mexican. I love reading, writing songs, working out and of course going out with my friends, I do have a lot of very close ones. Tell me a litle more about yourself?
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  Josef Essberger February 16, 2009 6:06

  Thanks for your kind comments Nadia and I'm sure you will continue to make good progress :)
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  Bill the English Teacher February 16, 2009 4:05

  Why is it that I always check my writing for mistakes? I want to be a good example. And then I find a mistake after I add the comment.
  
  ...students in my class from Brazil......
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  Bill the English Teacher February 16, 2009 4:02

  I am aware that Spanish and Portuguese are very similar in many ways. I have had students in my from Brazil and Mexico at the same time. They often understand many words from each other's languages. One Brazilian woman told me she would not speak Spanish because it is not as good a Portuguese.
  Many Americans think that you speak Spanish in Brazil. Sometimes they are a bit ignorant about these things.
  I also know that Latin Americans do not call us Americans since all people in the Western Hemisphere are Americans. They call us North Americans. I was taught that we all are Americans when I was in elementary school. I supposed we were given the name Americans by the British when we were the American Colonies. But it is funny that we do not have a name like estadounidenses . We call ourselves Americans and there is no word for "United Statesians. " Because of this we call ourselves Americans in English.
  
  Here are the corrections you asked for. Look carefully because some of the corrections are very small. Always feel free to ask me why I corrected something if you don't understand it :
  
  Oh! You’re right, I forgot about Spanish...”igualmente” in Portuguese is exactly the same in Spanish. In general Spanish and Portuguese are very similar. Most of the words mean the same thing but we pronounce them differently as well as the way we write the words.
  
  I’m so impressed how Brazilians can understand and speak Spanish so well and some Spanish people (depends on where they are from) cannot understand us, and did you know that a lot of Brazilian people don’t like to speak Spanish? ( not me) But this happens because a lot words and’ verb conjugations in Spanish are exactly the wrong way in Portuguese so Brazilians feel like they have no education at all.
  In my country like all the others in the world, we have English classes as an obligation and just a few years ago Brazilians have started learning Spanish seriously. I think that is a good decision.
  Bill, Could you correct all my mistakes on this letter… thank you
  
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  james kim February 15, 2009 23:41

  Hi Nedia, thank you for your greetings on me my English is not good but i would like to talk with you. if i had a chance i would like to have the time to chat with you soon. i inform you my skype id(kimkara71) Thanks.
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  belajar February 15, 2009 13:00

  Hi Nadia, thanks for the add.
  
  Have a nice one..:)
  
  cheers
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  Bill the English Teacher February 15, 2009 6:51

  If it looks like Portuguese it is only because Spanish and Portuguese are so similar. I know you know some Spanish, so it was the closest I could get to Portuguese. :)
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  Bill the English Teacher February 14, 2009 5:54

  Igualmente!!!
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  Ideli Aparecida Longo February 12, 2009 21:13

  Hi Nadia,how are you?
  I am from Sao Paulo and I moved to Lakeville,Minnesota,in October because my husband was invited to work at a computer company.I go to Rio de Janeiro very often because he is carioca from Ilha do Governador.
  I hope we can help each other to improve our English.
  I am very happy to have a brazilian friend in this club.
  Kisses and bye.
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  Bill the English Teacher February 8, 2009 19:46

  Also please excuse my misspellings. I was in a hurry to go to church so did not spell-check my mistakes.