Dear Readers, 

I came across this info through another list serve and I thought it would bring an interesting discussion here on this blog.

The Portuguese Government recently approved changes on the spelling of European Portuguese to “change” the spelling of many words into the Brazilian Portuguese spelling. I personally think the European Portuguese was lost in time, changes were past due, but changes which would reflect their own reality, not converting to the spelling of another country.  

We linguists know that there’s no better or worse version of a language, just diversity and different dialects which are products of environment, space, time, people….

Variables which are specific to each country where the language is spoken. You might say this is orthography only….regardless, apparently this is a major reform which will, in my opinion, bring confusion to language professionals who work with European Portuguese.

What do you think? Does anybody else have any information on this topic?

I would be interested in learning more.

Any readers work in Europe? 

Here is the link posted on the other list: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7405985.stm 

 Regards, 

Claudia Krusch
CK Translations LLC 

Dear Members,

 I use the Internet as a powerful tool to help make our classes interactive and bring the Brazilian Culture closer to the student.

I use many different links, but those are some of my favorites:

www.youtube.com

For songs, news and soup opera’s episodes

www.terra.com.br

For magazines, news, movies, culture, travel, shopping and more. Great site for teaching teenagers and adults.

www.yahoo.com.br and www.cade.com.br

For more advanced students who can search on Brazilian search engines, a lot more efficient than searching on international search engines.

I also subscribed to dish network which has a Brazilian Channel Globo and my box allows me to record any show and use it in the classroom. $ 29.00 a month + cost of the satellite.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Tchau!

Claudia Krusch