Talk:Learning a Second Language as an Adult

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In Portuguese, do you always use the article with the noun? For example, in English, I would say "I am going to school" not "I am going to a school, or the school."

I think I have seen that (with a few exceptions - if the noun is a city, state, person) the article is always used.

Thank you.

Basically, you don't need the article (a/o/um/uma) unless you use other descriptive words to give details about the noun.

Exemplos:

Voce e medica?

mas,

Ela e uma medica muito boa.

Voce e dentista?

mas,

Sim, eu sou o dentista que te deu uma escova dental bem roxa.

Thanks for asking and for loggin in. Come again any time! CGJ 10:14, 24 February 2006 (MST)