{"id":71,"date":"2007-08-30T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=71"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:50:12","slug":"skypecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/skypecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Skypecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had an amazing experience. Andr\u00e9 Barbosa (from the terrific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazilianportuguesepod.com\">Brazilian Portuguese Podcast<\/a>) invited me to join a <strong>Skypecast<\/strong> that he had created and was moderating. I stayed up way too late speaking English and Portuguese with people from all over the world; simply fantastic!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe concept of a Skypecast is simple: it is a conference call with a moderator. They are free and only require the installation of the Skype program, which is also free. About 20-30 people attended last night&#8217;s Skypecast, and there was a healthy amount of interchange between Brazilians and non-Brazilians.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Skypecasts, Skype is a perfect way to pair up with language learners around the globe. There are various networks of Skype users out there, some dedicated to people who want to learn Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>The downside to VOIP language practice is not being able to see people&#8217;s faces, but that may change; as soon as Skype allows video conferencing, the capability to see the moderator and participants of a Skypecast will be in place. I was a bit nervous before speaking in the &#8216;room,&#8217; but as soon as we got going, I felt right at home and we had a ball exchanging ideas and translating common phrases back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 is having another Skypcast tonight. To find his or <b>any<\/b> Skypecast about Portuguese, just go to <a href=\"http:\/\/skypecasts.skype.com\/\">http:\/\/skypecasts.skype.com\/<\/a> and search for &#8216;Portuguese.&#8217; Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had an amazing experience. Andr\u00e9 Barbosa (from the terrific Brazilian Portuguese Podcast) invited me to join a Skypecast that he had created and was moderating. I stayed up way too late speaking English and Portuguese with people from all over the world; simply fantastic! &hellip; Continue Reading<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5343,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}