Ten Easy Portuguese Words for travellers - another ten words

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Ten Easy Portuguese Words For Travellers

casa - house
catedral -cathedral
centro - centre
convento - convent
imagem /imagens - image/images

Judaica - Jewish
militar - military
monumenos - monuments
romanos - Roman
ruinas - ruins

Where can you use Portuguese? Over on the American continent in South America in Brazil. In Europe in Portugal. Offshore from Portugal in the Atlantic in the island of Madeira. Or as I did when reading news articles about places in Portuguese speaking countries.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:  tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8384769/Major-breakthrough-hunt-Madeleine-McCann-police-identify-German-suspect.html
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_patrim%C3%B3nio_edificado_no_distrito_de_Faro
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Need a country flag image for free? Can you identify these flags? Quiz!

Sometimes you need a country flag. It is useful to label a box file storing maps and leaflets before during or after a trip. You might want to add it to a blog as a heading.

But first you need to pick the right flag. Some are so similar. Lots of crosses on the Union Jack and Scandinavian flags, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland. 

Lots of Crescents on other flags. 

A flag which looks like the flag of the USA. 

Two countries with dragons. One is Wales. The other is?

Lots of stars.

How many? Which colour? How many points?

Union Jacks with stars for Australia and New Zealand. Which is which? Which flag has the most stars - which country?

You might recognize flags with red and white stripes. But that could be Monaco or Poland or Singapore or Malaysia. Red above or below? Anything added?

What about multiple stars? That could be the EU or Linguafranca.

What about red, white and blue? That's France. Or is it the Netherlands? Vertical or horizontal stripes?

Red yellow and black. That's Germany. Or is it Belgium?

Red white and green, easy peasy, Italy. But there's another red white and green flag. And red white and orange? Which is Italy? Which is Ireland? What is the third?

Here are some flags. Get ready for a quiz! Which country is this flag from? Some hints later. If you don't like your score, read the answer and see if you can improve.

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3

4

5

 6

7

8

9

10

Hints

1 Could be Singapore or China or Malaysia.

2 Could be Vietnam or Cambodia. 

3 Could be India or Spain. 

4 Could be France or the Netherlands?

5 Could be Canada or Wales?

6 Could be Australia or New Zealand.

7 Could be Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Serbia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine

8 Could be Italy?

9 Could be China or EU

10 Could be the USA or Malaysia or Indonesia.

Answers (alphabetically)

Not in right order - try matching them up!

Brazil

Canada 

China 

EU 

Esperanto 

France 

Iceland

India 

Interlingua 

Israel 

Italy

Madeira

Malaysia

New Zealand

Peru

Portugal

Scotland 

Singapore

South Africa

Spain

Switzerland

USA

UK

Wales

Answers in right order:

1 Singapore

2 Vietnam

3 India

4 The Netherlands

5 Canada

6 Australia

7 Latvia

8 Italy

9 China

10 USA

Useful websites
Wikipedia
Wikitravel
Simple wiki
wiki voyage
https://www.countryflags.com/en/australia-flag-image.html
https://www.countryflags.com/en/europe/

While we are on the subject of free, whole books for free:
https://studyreadwrite.com/2015/01/03/how-to-free-textbooks/

How to remember flags
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_71.html

Quiz on flags
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2018/07/quiz-on-flags-with-stars-can-you-guess.html

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

How to copyright mark your photos, illustrations, maps or other images

If you send other people photos or drawings or paintings you made on holiday or business trips or presentations such as Powerpoint or Mosaic or Keynote (on Apple) you might wish to watermark them.

You might find that putting on a copyright mark prevents your pictures being uploaded to some media.

Two ways I know of for doing this.

1 Text Box
The easiest way. Add a text box over the photo. Type in the words 'Copyright' followed by your name. Save.

I'm using the word copyright spelled out because some of the people to whom I'm sending photos, and somer readers of websites, are not even very clear on copyright and symbols.

2 Photoshop Elements
Use a photo editing system such as Photoshop Elements and add the copyright symbol. The simple Photoshop Elements can probably be bought for under £100. They keep updating it. My friendly photographer says he buys every other version.

When you buy Photoshop Elements you are sent two installing discs and instruction books. One installing disc is for Apple system. Instructions are also on the web.

First you insert the disc to install. This is why I need a laptop with a slot for inserting discs. I had a MacBook Air without a disc slot. It was a real nuisance.

First you have to install the installer. I got a message saying cannot install. Probably because the disc had not ben recognised. I waited. The installing whirred. I watched the download bar. Time passed. Ten minutes to go, nine, eight, seven, back up to eight. It's not me, and it's not you. Don't panic. That's the way it is.

You are asked to insert your buyer's number, serial number. I thought that would be on the box. It is on the package inside the box. Copy that out.

I am using just the simplest version, which is cheaper. The professional version is too expensive for me and my business. In any case it is so complicated at this stage it would confuse me.

Within Photoshop Elements, you have lots of choices to make. When you click on the watermark symbol you get boxes to fill in or select. You might want to adjust the opacity (opposite of see-through or transparent). Increase the font size - according to the site of your photo. Make the font bold or a bolder font.

At the end nothing happens until you have selected your choice in all the boxes. Then you need to be sure you have remembered to click on done or accept at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes I find the done box is not visible and I have to scroll down.

Saving Watermarked Photos
My professional photographer helper saved all my watermarked photos in a separate file labelled watermarked. He names the file images. I asked, 'Why not just call it photos?' He answered: 'Because you might save items which are not photos, such as illustrations, for examples, charts or drawings.'

Images
My caricatures are currently all saved as photos of caricatures. Maybe later, I'll get proficient at drawing on a computer, and filing my computer drawings. At the moment I'm drawing on the computer and using my mobile to take a photo of the drawing, which is automatically saved in date order, in case I lose the online drawing or delete it.

Little steps, little advances, a little learning every day.

Angela Lansbury, author, photographer and illustrator (caricatures and more).
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French word of the day: clairvoyant - French speaking Toastmasters clubs - French translations

This word came up as word of the day at Toastmasters speakers' training club. I associate clairvoyants with con artists claiming to see the dead. However, I was most interested to hear the analysis of the word, clair as in clear, and voyant, as in voyeur, seeing.
   Interestingly, one of the examples of the use of the word given was: 'I am not clairvoyant.' (Followed by, 'However I predict you will soon get a job.'
   Tres bien. (Very good.)

If you are running a meeting, people are not clairvoyant. You have to tell everybody where to find the fire exit, toilets, the food, even the station to get home, and offer a lift. You have to tell them to turn off their phone, and turn it back on.

Toastmasters
   If you want to practise your French, you can attend a French speaking Toastmasters Club at home or at your destination. Members of Toastmasters International can buy a Toastmasters manual in French and several other languages.
   In Singapore you can attend a Mandarin speaking club. (Only recommended if you speak some Mandarin. I went to one assuming it would include some English but only one person spoke any English and I had to sit smiling politely most of the evening whilst not understanding a word.
  When I gave a speech in English to thank my hosts, I have no idea whether my translator understood anything, or simply made up what she imagined I might have said. I should have taken a sheet of translations in advance, plus a thank you speech translated with Google translate.
  In this sort of situation, you need a working phone, a spare battery, a downloaded dictionary, plus a few vital phrases including

Failing all else, follow the men to the toilet door and make hand over eyebrows sign for I'm looking.
Or make prayer sign, looking sign and hand washing sign.

English - French
Where is - the toilet: Ou est ... ( Failing all else - find the image of a toilet/ drinking glass, bottle, station, bus stop, car park, fire exit, fire extinguisher, doctor)
Thank you very much - merci beaucoup
Delighted to meet you - enchante (you might copy what the other person says)
My name is - Je m'apelle
What is your name? Qu'est ce que c'est - et votre nom madame/monsieur ?
Where is the station? Ou e s t la gare? V o u s  p o u v e z  m' a c c o m p a n e z? (You can accompany me)
I am going back to  / I am walking to - Je dois r e n t re  a ... Je marche v e r s
Can you give me a lift in your car? Est-ce-que  v  o u s  a v e z  u n e  v o i t u r e   Je  v a i s
Can somebody show me the way?
What time does this meeting end? A qeu elle h e u re   n o u s  i r o n s  f i n i  r? (At what time do we finish?)

Because of spellchecker, if you are doing a lot of translation, you might find it useful to print one page in English, then switch the computer language to French. Only do this if you speak fluent French and have somebody (family friend or nearby computer/phone shop) who can turn the computer back to English - write what you did to get the French, so you can reverse the process and get back to English.

I have given speeches and evaluated speeches in England, France, Singapore, China, Thailand, the USA, Australia and translated speeches at conferences in France and typed up speeches in correct English for speakers at conferences in India.

Angela Lansbury B A Hons, author, speaker.