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I'm not well versed when it comes to poetry, but I happen to have read a lot of Pessoa's work (mostly Álvaro de Campos) and it is very touching. I'd go as far t
by napsterbr 5y ago
I'm not well versed when it comes to poetry, but I happen to have read a lot of Pessoa's work (mostly Álvaro de Campos) and it is very touching. I'd go as far to say that it's worth learning Portuguese (a very hard language) just so you can read Pessoa's texts without the translation.
My personal favorite is Tabacaria [0] (Tobacco Shop). That's a masterpiece.
[0] - https://www.azores-adventures.com/2015/10/tabacaria-by-fernando-pessoa-%C3%A1lvaro-de-campos.html https://www.azores-adventures.com/2015/10/tabacaria-by-ferna...
- andrepd 5y agoIt's absolutely amazing, though I've gotta say I kinda developed an aversion to Pessoa after it being crammed down our throats all the time in high school x)
- jorgemendes 5y agoWell, for me it was what made love the classes. I guess the teacher has a big influence here.
- pedrosorio 5y ago> Portuguese (a very hard language) Hard to learn? For whom? A native Japanese speaker? English? Swahili? The foreign service institute of the US department of state classifies Portuguese as a category I language (easiest to learn for English native speakers): https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/ https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/
- schoen 5y agoI feel like native English speakers who've learned Spanish tend to think of Portuguese as hard because it has more phonemes (and accented letter forms) than Spanish and (arguably) more grammar in terms of verb forms (e.g. mesoclitics and personal infinitives). This is especially when Spanish is their point of reference, or their only point of reference. But I think the Foreign Service Institute is right and there's good reason, both theoretically and experimentally, to consider Portuguese comparatively easy for native English speakers!