Klarinet Archive - Posting 000766.txt from 2003/03

From: "Fernando Silveira" <amigo222@-----.br>
Subj: Re: [kl] spanish posts (Fernando Silveira)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:33:00 -0500

Folks, I am not offended. Please, I know you are trying to help me and I
thank you all!!! (Even those who wrote in japanese...) Ha Ha Ha!!!

All the best

Fernando
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Berry" <MarchinCharger88@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] spanish posts (Fernando Silveira)

> 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>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:27 AM
> 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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> > >
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