Saturday, 24 September 2011

Elementary Portuguese Course - Started!!

Finally.... the course that I have signed up three times in the last nine months or so is finally offered by an institution here in Hong Kong. Amazing.

Portuguese is not as popular as other languages like Japanese, Korean, French or Spanish in Hong Kong, and it's for this reason that there are very few courses on Portuguese being offered here. Even some organisations wanted to offer such courses, they're bound to be cancelled because of lack of sufficient enrollment number.

I once considered going to Macau to study Portuguese, but then I quit this idea because it's simply too expensive to do it this way. Macau is close to Hong Kong, but the only way of transportation is only hydrofoil and the fare is not cheap. And it's too tiring traveling between the two places every week, even though if it would be only once a week.

I had the first lesson today.  It's Elementary Portuguese.  To my amazement, our teacher is a Brazilian.   Considering the tuition fee of the course (it's really good price, lol), that's much worth the money having some native Portuguese person as our teacher!  That's fantastic.

I have already had some basic knowledge of Portuguese prior to the course so hopefully I can manage it with ease.  Let's see how the course will go. I hope to be able to catch proper pronunciations of words & learn many new words/phrases/cultural elements from the teacher and also see if I can get to know from him some ways/opportunities of continuing learning the language with some native Portuguese speakers in Hong Kong. Ha!

I can't wait to have the second lesson! Haha.

9 comments:

  1. where do you have your class? i want to study Portuguese as well. thanks

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    1. Hello! I‘m learning it now in Hong Kong. Are you from HK? If so, I can give you more details. :)

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    2. Hello Ta, I am in HK and I would like to take lessons! Can you please e-mail me at KBrown33@aol.com?

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    3. Hello Kelly. Really sorry for my late reply. I'm going to write you in an email and talk a bit about the classes I took before. Cheers.

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  2. Hello Ta! This is kind of stupid but I actually also came across your post from last year when I try to google "learn Portugese in Hong Kong"! could you tell me where you did your classes and did you like them? would be interested in knowing more details! Could you mail me at chanoy84@gmail.com? Looking forward to hearing from you.

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  4. Hey Ta,

    Dont know if you are still using this blog but I'm looking for courses to learn portuguese, and there are few options. Just wondering if you can provide me some details abt the course you took. (you can email me: cxw.ashley@gmail.com)

    Thanks,
    Ashley

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    1. Hello Ashley, I'm really sorry for replying you late. I have not used this blog for quite some time, but I'm about to resume writing. Would you still like information on learning Portuguese?

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