Ok, well not really, but I have been studying with both Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur (while on my bike). My vocab and grammar are improving in leaps and bounds. It helps that so many of the words are close to or the same as in English and Spanish. I don't speak Spanish either, but I probably know close to 2000 words, which is all I should need. And it helps that I studied Latin and Greek, albeit a long time ago, so I have decent understanding of conjugation, declension and a strong foundation in grammar.
However, the pronunciation still ties my tongues in knots. I'm truly hopeless. It doesn't help that there are sounds in Brazilian Portuguese that just don't exist in English. I'll keep trying and we'll see where I get after 24 days of trying to speak and pretending to understand what people say back to me.
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