Klarinet Archive - Posting 000764.txt from 2003/03

From: "Elizabeth Berry" <MarchinCharger88@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] spanish posts (Fernando Silveira)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:30:27 -0500

Haha, what an IDIOT I am. I am so sorry! I was guessing by your name that
you spoke Spanish. I speak a little Portuguese as well, next time, I will
respond in that language!

Sorry if I offended you, I was just trying to help out :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Silveira" <amigo222@-----.br>
Subject: Re: [kl] spanish posts (Fernando Silveira)

> Hi Kelly,
> Before I read your post I were surprised, too, with those posts in
spanish.
> I've studied spanish on the high school and it were needed to go to the
> college. Here in Brazil, to go to the colege, you must have to choose to
> make a test in spanish or english. I choose spanish on that time.
> After that I started to travel a lot and, at the same time, I saw that
most
> of the clarinet literture were in english. So I started to learn english.
It
> were very good, because you will, for shure, need it to go to Master's and
> Doctor's degree.
> We, here in Brazil, have a joke that all foreigns means that the capital
of
> Brazil is Buenos Aires (instead Brasilia). Maybe for that reason the
people
> think that we, here in Brazil, speak spanish.
> Today I prefeer speak, write and read in english. I fell more confortble,
> even doin'g, yet, some mistakes.
> But, coming back to our subject, I were invited to audition in Jacksonvile
> Symphony and the bass clarinet I regular play is from Brazilian Symphony.
On
> that period (the audition is on april 7th) I won't travel with this
> instrument.
> But I am felling that, maybe, won't be easy to find a good rent
instrument.
>
> Thank you all a lot
>
> Fernando Silveira
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "CBA" <clarinet10001@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:36 AM
> Subject: [kl] spanish posts (Fernando Silveira)
>
>
> > I think the Spanish posts are great. There is a Spanish clarinet
> > list (clarperu, I believe...also stemming from the woodwind.org
> > website, if you need info.)
> >
> > The irony is, I believe Elizabeth+'s original Spanish post was
> > to Fernando Silveira, who lives in Rio (Brasil) where they would
> > be speaking PORTUGUESE as the primary language. My travels in
> > Brasil gave me a big surprise...Brasilians, as a rule, speak
> > Portuguese first, and English second. I even met a good portion
> > of the people there that spoke Italian. I met NO ONE in Brasil
> > the times I was there that actually spoke Spanish much. (It was
> > quite curious to me, considering that all of the surrounding
> > South American countries speak Spanish, that Brasilians wouldn't
> > make a point to learn Spanish before English - after Portuguese,
> > of course.)
> >
> > Fernando (Silveira,) were you able to read any of these posts in
> > Spanish, or are these Spanish posts harder for you to read than
> > the English ones are? If you can't read the Spanish posts people
> > have recently put on the list, maybe they can repost them to you
> > in English?
> >
> > Obrigado Fernando. Boa sorte!
> >
> > Kelly Abraham
> > Woodwinds - New York City
> >
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