Bilingual Chats: Fernando

Hi! I learned English by watching TV and stuff. Mostly Dragon Ball. But also through my interactions daily [daily interactions]. Mainly through television though.

It was easy and it took a long time. It could have been faster if I [had] put more effort but I didn’t so I made it easy on myself. Mainly through television though.

I guess cool cool cool is a good one. It’s when you say cool three times really fast, and it’s a reference to a couple of TV shows I really like.

A big difference of [between] English and Portuguese is [that] there is [are] a lot of th‘s in English. And that sound th th th is in a lot of words, this, that, the, for example. And that learning that was difficult, and combining that with other letters like three, like a lot of Brazilians will put an f in there like fhree or you know, tree… not pronounce the ‘h’ so that’s a though part. Also, they’ll pronounce ‘thanks’ like ‘thank you’ with like a tank, tank you. So getting the th th that’s a tough difference to get over.