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I am of the first 3.  I downloaded Pimsleur series.  Unfortunalty, the only time I have to listen is while in the car and that's not really the best time..hard to concentrate.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  Is there a growing Brazilian community in the Houston/Texas area.  If so, I wish there was a classroom style curriculum that I could take.  Take Drac's curriculum....one technique helps with the learning of the next, everything is taught in order for a reason.  I want to learn Portuguese the same way I guess.  That's how I learned English.  I had to learn to spell CAT or say my ABC's before I was taught about verbs and adverbs, prepositons and prepositional phrases...etc.  I know how to say "Excuse me, Do you speak English?" and a little bit of some simple stuff but I don't know how to spell it..damn sure can't write it.  My only other option would be to move to Brazil and just assimilate.  A buddy of mine at work was stationed in Germany and 2 years later he spoke perfect German...no classes just learned one word at a time and people would tell him what he is not saying right.  I want to learn it very badly but if it's not structured I loose intrest (get lazy).  I want to learn the ABC's and the 123's before I ask where the bathroom is.