{"id":1262,"date":"2023-03-11T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2023-03-11T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:03:18","slug":"why-its-hard-for-me-to-learn-portugues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Hard For Me To Learn Portugu\u00eas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to learn Portuguese for a few months now. On Duolingo I completely switched from Spanish (which I had been doing for over two years on there) to completely Portuguese. I&#8217;m not doing bad with reading and writing but I suck at speaking and I really suck at listening.<\/p>\n<p>But I figured out why I suck at speaking. When I was a kid, I had to attend speech therapy (or whatever they call it)&#8230; like a speech class. I was having trouble with my R&#8217;s and S&#8217;s with pronunciation. The S&#8217;s I would &#8220;shhh&#8221;. It was like drilled into me not to do &#8220;shhh&#8221; with S sounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; now&#8230; enter me learning Portuguese. There are A LOT of times you make the S &#8220;shhh&#8221; sound (example, where I live, &#8220;Lagos&#8221; is pronounced &#8220;Lagosh&#8221;). So now I need to retrain my brain to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh, if only I learned Portuguese from the get-go. Thanks Mom and Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to learn Portuguese for a few months now. On Duolingo I completely switched from Spanish (which I had been doing for over two years on there) to completely Portuguese. I&#8217;m not doing bad with reading and writing but I suck at speaking and I really suck at listening. But I figured out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,29,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages","category-personal","category-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}