I am learning Portuguese...

It is sweet. Spanish speaking people say that it sounds like Spanish with your fingers in your mouth. Portuguese speaking people get offended when you say that. There are similarities, after all on both sides of the ocean the countries that speak Portuguese are neighbors with the Spanish speakers.
We are only learning it for 6 weeks. We are in our fourth week, and we already can recognize over 200 words. The point of us doing this for only 6 weeks is for us to learn how to use the techniques that we have been learning in class. I have to say that they are pretty effective. I can't read it, but I can write words out phonetically, and read them back to my language helper and he can understand me. It is a cool feeling to be able to communicate in another language. As the typical American I only know two languages, English and Bad English, so this is a fun experience for me!
Ok, got to get back to class...in body at least...