Brasil-Boston Interchange - Lighting a Spark
Not a reader? Here's a video. I was bummed I couldn't make yesterday's conversation yet so glad Luis stepped up to lead our open house for learning Portuguese and English. Watching the recording lit a spark, inspiring me to write this first entry in the Brasil-Boston Interchange blog. For the uninitiated or newbie, we started this free (no cost, no ads) Saturday morning Zoom meeting in the early days of the pandemic. Our mission: to make the world a better place, one interchange at a time. We don't have much structure—a good thing—and go back and forth between English and Portuguese. Brazilians tell me I've made a lot of progress. I believe them. I speak and write with much more confidence and less attachment to perfection. Feito é melhor do que perfeito, não é? I've been using my Portuguese at work. I get the job done with short and basic conversations. I got to that point because I was invested in learning, memorizing, and using new vocabulary. Under...