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Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
Yes.Thanks
frankbeswick, on 02/03/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
Yes she was. They use continental Portuguese. My daughter in law is Angolan, but she fled to Portugal but she fled to Portugal at three, so she grew up speaking continental Portuguese.
frankbeswick, on 02/03/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
It might perhaps help your Portuguese to listen to an audio Bible.
WordProject is the site that I look to for listening in the non-English languages that I know to the Bible every Lent. It offers both Brazilian and continental Portuguese, each ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
My carioca (from Tupi-Guarani kari, "white man" and oka, "house" = name for Rio de Janeiro because founded and settled by Europeans) speech means that di, r and ti always are pronounced respectively djee, French r and tchee. But your in-laws and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
The first paragraph to the fifth subheading, Leprechauns, describes the latter as "an Irish variation of a dwarf in continental Europe. It represents old natural powers and is closely associated with a dangerous and mysterious underground world. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2024
An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
To paraphrase Ross Case phoning Arthur Ashe and presenting himself with just, "Snake here" -- Deedee here ;-D!
When might JoJo and friend have their board game created and ready to earn millions of billions of trillions of Australian dollars?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2024
Pilate
Your guess is better than mine. The spell checkerbisva burden on anyone with a wide vocabulary.
frankbeswick, on 02/03/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
My wife is a bettervspeakerbof PortuguesebthannI am. You havebremindednmebto get a move on with the language.
frankbeswick, on 02/03/2024
An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
I see what you mean. You may think that the Internet and computer is an outlay. I already had that, anyway. But a friend and I are creating a board game. We will have to pay for the creation of the product, packaging and postage. - That I ...
Jo_Murphy, on 02/02/2024
An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
So Deedee, they are permanently available. This year's Australia Day will be available to add to next years Australia Day - signed JoJ0
Jo_Murphy, on 02/02/2024
An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
Hah hah from now on I will call you Deedee and here I am called JoJo
Funny how that evolves?
Jo_Murphy, on 02/02/2024
Pilate
The spell checker "corrected" Notovitch to Motovitch in my comment box below thanking you for the Hemis and Notovitch references.
In fact, I used Notovitch and it worked.
(How would a spelling check get Motovitch from Notovitch?!)
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/02/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
That first, in-text image of the St. Patrick's Day paraders is quite compelling.
There's something about the window styles that makes me think of a place other than the United States.
Might there be information as to where the aforementioned ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/02/2024
An Australian Marketplace Called RedBubble
The first paragraph to your last subheading, No financial risk, mentions that "The merchant pays no outlay costs."
How would I recognize -- ;-D -- an outlay cost? In other words, what would an outlay cost be?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/02/2024
Adrienne von Speyr a life on the edge of heaven
The Nathan Pacheco performance got my attention because of my Brazilian Portuguese (actually the carioca speech of Rio de Janeiro).
The aforementioned tenor is of Portuguese ancestry and speaks Italian, Portuguese and Spanish as well as his ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/02/2024