In preparing for the trip, I have been listening to my Portuguese CDs (Pimsleur's Portuguese 3) and I just bought Rosetta Stone's Language study program (it's realllly cool) on Ebay and while I was searching on Ebay I saw a book - only $1.96 buy it now - called Portuguese Irregular Verbs. Portuguese has several Irregular verbs - and like English they are the really important verbs that you use all the time - to be, to have, to go, to hear. The book was listed next to several other books: 501 Portuguese Verbs and Portuguese Verbs and Grammar. Since it was less than $5 even including the shipping I bought it. (and of course was very proud of myself for getting such a good deal)It came today.
It ends up that this book has nothing to do with Portuguese grammar. It's a short novel! I skimmed through it. It seems the story is about a company that printed way too many copies of a book actually titled and about irregular Portuguese verbs,(hmmm, I can't imagine why there aren't thousands of people wanting a book like that) so they were going to try to change the cover of the book to say Portuguese Irrigated Herbs and put them on bookshelves in model homes to get rid of them...Ha, ha, ha. Well, I guess the joke is on me for not researching a little more before I clicked "buy now". Anyone want to read a short novel before I try to resell it on Ebay or Amazon?
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