Writing in english, a new attempt
Submitted by rafael on 11/10/2011
I've tried, few years ago, to write posts in english. At that time I've decided to read books in english to get better but it didn't work. The main reason it didn't work was because my english are very bad at that time.
I bought the book "Lord Foul's Bane" from the series "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever". I must have read about 10 pages and quit. I couldn't understand a lot of expressions, words and sentences. This showed me how bad my english was and that I should do something to change it.
In a attempt to change it I enrolled in a english course and I spent 18 months studing. The school isn't a great school, but it "unblocked" me and gave me more confidence.
Last April me and my wife traveled to The United States. That was our first travel abroad and we visited Orlando and it's parks. We enjoyed Disney World, Sea World and Universal Studios a lot! The trip also contributed to the improvement and understanding of english and a little bit to our spelling.
Among the things I bought on our trip there is a Amazon Kindle, a e-book reader. With this device, buying books became very cheap and easy. Then I decided to give another try on reading in english (most of the books sold for the Kindle are written in english). That became a very exciting experience.
In two months I've read two books. Those wasn't small books, they were "The name of the wind" and "Wise man's fear". If you check, you'll see that I've read about 1600 pages entirely in english! That was a great accomplishment (do you remember my first try? Only 10 pages!).
At this moment I'm reading another book, in fact a trilogy called "Mistborn trilogy" by Brandon Sanderson which give me about 2200 pages to read. That's a challenge I've accepted and I'm enjoying.
The next steps, and this text is the first one, is to turn write in english a habit. I know it will be hard, not only because write in english is hard, but because have the habit of writing is hard for me. But I'm determined to give it a new try.
CMS Brasil
Submitted by rafael on 19/06/2009
On the next weekend I'll be in São Paulo for the CMS Brasil 2009.
The CMS Brasil is an event which brings some discussions about CMS's. This year there will be speeches about Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress (the last one, IMHO, isn't a CMS, but there's a lot of people using it that way).
I was invited to speak and my speech will be, of course, about Drupal. My speech will focuses on building portals with Drupal and I hope show how easy is to do that with Drupal.
As a bonus we will have some foringer speakers, and representign Drupal we will listen to Addison Berry, Drupal documentation leader.
The event seems to be very good and I hope to meet the guys from Drupal Brasil ( Pedro and Leo will have a speech too).
I don't know if it's possible to get a ticket, but for those that will be there, see you then!
Writing in english
Submitted by rafael on 26/05/2009
Few time ago I've tried to start writing in english but it didn't work and I quit.
Now I started studying english and decided to give a new try on write in english, this time using the resources of Drupal.
It will be, in most part of time, translations of the texts I write in portuguese from now on. The old texts won't be translated.
My english still not so good as I would, but I hope to be understood.
For who see this site in english, this will be the first visible post, for who see this site in portuguese, the other texts still there.
