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What is up with Brazilians and "Thanks God" or "Thanks, God"

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I haven't noticed it either. But then again I never do say that. Religion stuff is not my forte.

it's acutally an easy one....It's a linguistics thing. The final "k" sound is not native to portuguese. It's a velar stop "K" followed by the voiced glottal G. Do it in your throat and you'll see that if you're not a native speaker of a language that uses those sounds, it's not a natural shift. Of course they can do it, but for Portuguese speakers it's much easier to precede the glottal G sound with the breathed fricative "S". pay attention to the sounds in your throat and you'll see!

actually, whenever you hear a piece of language that sounds "cute", it's usually because it's not a natural change in consonants or vowels for the speaker. Go ahead and say the word corazao or telecomunicacoes to a carioca and they'll smile and think it's cute.

English speakers also do not do K followed by G. Say "thank god" and you'll hear yourself blend the sounds together. We can't do it either!

PS I have been laughed at quite a few times for my "coração" pronunciation!

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die thread die! :P

i blame you for this thread living again daniel

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die thread die! :P

i blame you for this thread living again daniel

We can all agree that Buenos Aires is awesome and then we can kill this thread...

Isn't there any hermano from Argentina to back a brother up on this one????

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English speakers also do not do K followed by G. Say "thank god" and you'll hear yourself blend the sounds together. We can't do it either!

PS I have been laughed at quite a few times for my "coração" pronunciation!

I'm still way down on the Portuguese learning curve. I try too, and receive lots of smiles :lol:

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die thread die! :P

i blame you for this thread living again daniel

We can all agree that Buenos Aires is awesome and then we can kill this thread...

Isn't there any hermano from Argentina to back a brother up on this one????

Lawling. Alex and Rey knowing when to stop? Respectfully walking away from the issue like adults? Never!

It's true, we're no good at that...

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We can all agree that Buenos Aires is awesome and then we can kill this thread...

Isn't there any hermano from Argentina to back a brother up on this one????

I'll agree with you Rey that Buenos Aires is awesome the day you agree with me that Rio de Janeiro is awesome :whistle:



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We can all agree that Buenos Aires is awesome and then we can kill this thread...

Isn't there any hermano from Argentina to back a brother up on this one????

I'll agree with you Rey that Buenos Aires is awesome the day you agree with me that Rio de Janeiro is awesome :whistle:

Well, so I will have to stick with only the rest of the world to back me up on this one...

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So Rey, Charles is here asking when are you coming to the US. He wants to show you the best places to buy guns and addopt cats.



* K1 Timeline *
* 04/07/06: I-129F Sent to NSC
* 10/02/06: Interview date - APPROVED!
* 10/10/06: POE Houston
* 11/25/06: Wedding day!!!

* AOS/EAD/AP Timeline *
*01/05/07: AOS/EAD/AP sent
*02/19/08: AOS approved
*02/27/08: Permanent Resident Card received

* LOC Timeline *
*12/31/09: Applied Lifting of Condition
*01/04/10: NOA
*02/12/10: Biometrics
*03/03/10: LOC approved
*03/11/10: 10 years green card received

* Naturalization Timeline *
*12/17/10: package sent
*12/29/10: NOA date
*01/19/11: biometrics
*04/12/11: interview
*04/15/11: approval letter
*05/13/11: Oath Ceremony - Officially done with Immigration.

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Do the tango in Rio. :dance::dance:

Daniel

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than that city will stink twice :lol:

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Minnesota?

Wow... I don't know anyone who lives there :lol:

11/2004 - Met in Brazil

09/2006 - Apply for K1

03/2007 - K1 approved

04/2007 - Apply for AOS & EAD

07/2007 - EAD approved

01/2008 - Conditional Residency approved

11/2009 - Apply to remove conditions

02/2010 - Permanent Residency approved

11/2010 - Apply for Citizenship

03/2011 - Citizenship approved

07/2011 - Moved back to Brazil

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Minnesota?

Wow... I don't know anyone who lives there :lol:

I do! For the next three months anyway. We lost our lease in NY cuz the guy wouldn't move out. :(

*Alexandra*

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That sucks about your NY lease. Freakin' New Yorkers.... (I'm one of them :innocent: ).

I hope the midwest winter is not too bad, even Florida is in the 40's in the morning.

Have a safe trip.

11/2004 - Met in Brazil

09/2006 - Apply for K1

03/2007 - K1 approved

04/2007 - Apply for AOS & EAD

07/2007 - EAD approved

01/2008 - Conditional Residency approved

11/2009 - Apply to remove conditions

02/2010 - Permanent Residency approved

11/2010 - Apply for Citizenship

03/2011 - Citizenship approved

07/2011 - Moved back to Brazil

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