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.