Studying Brazilian Portuguese is one of my pastimes. More correctly, one of my passions. I’ll have to ask a Brazilian friend how to spell “Puanhol,” i.e., Portuguese mixed with Spanish. Our family speaks a lot of “Swinglish.” (Can you guess which two languages we casually blend?) I’m also working on Latin American Spanish. The city of Oaxaca de Juarez has a hold on our hearts, and we plan to return. Our son and daughter-in-law were engaged in Oaxaca last year 💞
The other day, my phone presented me with a silent challenge: It opened to my translation app, indicating that I should say something in Portuguese to be translated into English: Portuguese 🧿 English. So my first words of the day were “Hoje vai ser um bom dia.” 😃 “Today will be a good day.”
It’s time for my evening lesson now. But like many people learning a language online, I don’t speak enough of any of the languages I am trying to learn. Speaking into the microphone is one way to speak more.
What language(s) are you studying? What have you learned or spoken in your new language today?
I am the one wearing an ACL brace in the photo below.
Circespeaks 
That water looks delicious!
I barely keep my Spanish working by chatting with my sisters in Mexico City. We have gotten lazy lately.
I’m sure it’s perfect! How many sisters do you have? I have none 🤷♀️Do they ever visit you in the US?
I’m the oldest of five girls. They see each other all the time – I’m the one who left, and, being chronically ill, don’t get to visit (haven’t been to Mexico City since 2014, right before my dad died).
We talk – but they have busy lives, and I have no energy. They don’t visit me – no place for them to stay, nothing for them to do in Davis. Zoom and Facetime and Whatsup – and a short video visit – work better, but we haven’t had one in a month. Pandemic didn’t help.
Working on it – we get along well, the five of us, always have – just circumstances.
I’m sure it’s perfect! How many sisters do you have? I have none 🤷♀️Do they ever visit you in the US?