Good afternoon
We are now in Ouro Preto which is a city nearby Belo Horizonte
And this is my friend Gustavo from Belo Horizonte, he helps me with a lot of things
I have been here for two weeks and today I would like to try to make a video in Portuguese
Gustavo, do you have questions for me?
Yes, many, one of them is: why do you want to learn Portuguese?
Because I think that Portuguese is a language that is spoken by many people in many countries.
So it's an important language.
I had already learnt some Spanish so I thought it wouldn't be too difficult to learn Portuguese for me.
Yeah, in fact, it's easy if you know Spanish already.
And before I had been in many countries in Asia, but not in Latin America.
So Brazil was a country where I hadn't been and that's why I want to learn Portuguese.
And tell me, what was your first impression about Brazil?
When I arrived in Brazil... I (found out)
I found out that all the people here know how to dance, but the Dutch people can't.
Yes, and the people here have a very warm personality.
For example, I Holland when you meet someone, we do like this.
But in Brazil it's more like this, the people are very ''warm''.
Yes, that is true. And tell me something else...
What will you to with Portuguese in the future?
I still don't know. My experience is that if you learn a language it's much more easy to make friends (in the country).
And when you travel and you speak the language that is spoken in the country it's much more easy to communicate and you have much more fun.
Yes, for sure. At least, I think that if you go to another country and you know English that you can communicate at least.
I don't think that is so cool. It's much better that if you go to another country that you speak the language of the people there.
It also shows respect, and you are able to absorb much more of the culture.
That's true, I see.
Yes, so next time when I go to countries where they speak Portuguese, for example, Angola, Mozambique, East-Timor, Macau, I can practice my Portuguese there.
Yes in some of these countries, for example: both in Holland and in Suriname they speak Dutch.
And there are differences for sure. It's the same with Portuguese in Brazil, in Portugal and in other places.
But basically it's possible to communicate. I can understand Portuguese from Portugal quite well.
What do you think about the people that, or better...
What is the advice that you can give people that are learning a language, especially a language that they have never learned before.
That's a hard question to answer in Portuguese
But for me, for learning Portuguese, it's important to try to speak it much, and chat often with people in the country.
Now I am in Brazil so I have many opportunities to practice, but also when I do back to Holland there are ways to practice language via Skype or internet. 0:06:45.000,0:02:47.000 Perfect mate!
Do you have any other questions?
No I think that it's enough.
Thank you very much for bringing me here. I will stay in Brazil for two more weeks and...
We will see what my level will be like by then.
So you want to see what your level in Portuguese will be like. (correction)