Piranha (etym. – biting fish) (n.) – PIRANHA,

compare prãîa (v.) (Lisbon, Hist.

of Anim. and Tr. of Maranhão. f. 173)

PIRANHA, sisoures, fish with very sharp

teeth.

 

PIR-ANHA. Ichthyology: piranha, fish of the

family Characidae, genus Pygocentrus.

= pir-ãia. Noun (sharp-toothed fish,

by analogy) + scissors

 

i remember a teacher i once had

ticiana melo a french teacher

everyone loved her

many years ago this

when we were on a placement

me and mirna juliana

my placement partner

or maybe it was a different subject

before the placement

when we were about to

start teaching french

as a foreign language

to be certified to teach french

as a foreign language

– one of the aspects of my education

in letters that i have fortunately set aside –

i remember her saying that

 

the methods of teaching

a foreign language

bear traces of a certain historicity

and the audiolingual method for example

also known as

audiovisual

which was first developed

before the second world war

had been developed as

military technology

 

it also became known as

army specialized training program

based on behaviourist theories

and repetitions elaborated in laboratories

i remember her also saying

 

about the vietnam war

and how before it was ever used in a classroom

as a didactic tool

to improve or optimise

the learning process

of any given foreign language

it had been used

 

– this she explained –

to train american soldiers

so that they would learn

in the most efficient and efficacious manner

the language of those

they were about to kill

 

that year – 2019 actually

the year i began writing

this text – i began studying

tupi using navarro’s method

método moderno de tupi antigo

with a study group from ufc

convened in self-access mode

by professor suene honorato

alongside other interested parties

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