Last night I completed my final exam for the "Portuguese for immigrants" course, that I have been attending since November last year.
The course is sponsored in part by SEF, which is the Portuguese immigration and borders service. We have attended classes 2 times a week for the past few months, with classes being 2 hours each.
Like I said, the exam, this consisted of 5 sections to test us on our level of audio comprehension, reading comprehension, writing comprehension, grammatical competence and final oral expression.
I think I did all right in the first 4 parts, unfortunately I fell flat in the oral expression. :(
We were assigned in pairs and given instructions to have a dialogue, this is where things went horribly wrong for me. I froze up and could not think of what to say, reading my instructions, I forgot what the words meant...
It was terrible sitting there for 3 minutes trying to get something to come out my mouth, so we limped on.
Then we moved onto individual oral expressions, and I managed to recover, which made me feel a tad better.
I have a long way to go before I can communicate in Portuguese, and last night showed me exactly how far I have to go, so I intend to get out to meetup's more, so that I can practice with real live people and hopefully get much better!
As for you, have you learnt a new language recently? Do you have any 'fun' stories to share from learning a new language?
I would love to hear from you in the comments!
I have other posts too;
On life (more or less)
3D printing
And living in Portugal
- Photos from my first month in Portugal
- Walking around in Covilha, Portugal - Part 2
- Walking around in Covilha, Portugal - Part 1
- View from our verranda - winter has arrived
- Steemit Photo Challenge #27 Autumn in Portugal
