Learning the Language of My New Life*

Let’s face it. Portuguese is not a beautiful language. It’s harsh sounding and choppy. On the contrary, the Italian language is so melodic and beautiful. I loved learning Italian as it just rolls off the tongue and you can easily convey your current mood by your tone. Portuguese is not like that. I can never tell the difference between my neighbors having a huge argument or a friendly chat. It all sounds the same to me. To add a level of difficulty, the Portuguese will simply leave syllables and even entire words out when they are speaking. Just leave them out. Yet they still understand one another. As you can imagine, this greatly increases the level of difficulty for someone new to the language. <a href="https://tistravels.medium.com/twelfth-week-of-a-new-life-ebc3db08d5da">Read More</a>