{"id":74,"date":"2007-09-04T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=74"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:52:06","slug":"conversation-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/conversation-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Get a Brazilian chat-pal for Skype, MSN, Yahoo, AIM<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If any of you loyal (thank you!) readers of the Portuguese Blog would like me to arrange a conversation partner, I would be <a href=\"mailto:markitecht@gmail.com\">happy to do so<\/a>. I have an address book full of Brazilians who are enthusiastically learning English who would be happy to participate in such an exchange. Of course all this is free!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt is an amazing experience to work with a chat-pal online. The first thing that jumped out at me was that my anxieties melted away once I realized how much language me and my partner had in common. When one of us had a question that was difficult to phrase in the &#8216;target&#8217; language, we were able to revert to our native tongue and get our point across.<\/p>\n<p>I really encourage you to try out this fun and exciting opportunity to hone your Brazilian Portuguese skills. You won&#8217;t regret it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a Brazilian chat-pal for Skype, MSN, Yahoo, AIM If any of you loyal (thank you!) readers of the Portuguese Blog would like me to arrange a conversation partner, I would be happy to do so. I have an address book full of Brazilians who are enthusiastically learning English who would be happy to participate&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/conversation-partners\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/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-74","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}