Eat, drink and be merry.....

Joe Toledo, whose site was featured last month, has been working prodigiously on a World Cup site as a soccer fanatic and also as fund-raiser for cancer research and education bursaries..

There's information and links to everything you need to know to enjoy the Cup and if you are a soccer aficionado there's a free contest in which you can pit your wits against others similarly afflicted. At least as a Brazil supporter, odds are you may have a team in the final - they have won the Cup so often and are still firm favourites for many.

Another way of reducung nostalgia might be to visit the updated Lusomundo website. Aimed to keep Portuguese speakers in contact world-wide,, it has forums and goodness knows what - yes, you guessed. My way of avoiding saying it's focussing a bit heavily on futebol at the moment.

The best news for language learners I've saved till last. Notoriously difficult to pronounce, Portuguese now features on the wonderful Fonetiks site

If you are learning any new language and hope to someday sound like a native speaker, use this site to help with pronunciation. Spanish, French (and French Canadian), German (and Swiss German), Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese (Romanji), Indonesian, and Thai language pronunciations are listed. For English learners, American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh accents are available. - What more could you ask?

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