Aren’t they all proper nouns and therefore supposed to not need the definite article?

    • pmtriste@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Portuguese is pretty tough. I just completed my B2 level class and I still can barely understand more than 40% of what Portuguese people say to me, and that’s coming from a background of also having taken other languages in American high school. I have since determined that what we learned probably wasn’t very functional, and much was probably just wrong, but we only had to pass tests, not actually understand a native speaker.