🗣️ Keeping with the Portuguese practice. Three days now. My head is still close to exploding.
@maique Thank you. That is sound advice. I was listening to Melissa talk to her grandson the other night. He is 3½, and I was marveling at how well and clearly he speaks English. His vocabulary, and how he articulates his words. He has done that in his short time here - I'm sure that you are experiencing the same with tinyMovieStar. And of course they don't put any pressure on themselves. They just pick it up....while all the time having fun.
This is older me, putting pressure on myself. As you say, "Calma."
@crossingthethreshold For a change of pace, I really like having the bilingual Pessoa poetry collection that I bought at FNAC in Lisbon. It's just interesting to see how many words you know in the foreign language, while still being able to understand the poem with the English translation. And it reminds you that translation is an art form, not an exact science. Thankfully!
@jean Thank you for this recommendation, Jean. I shall look it up. You are becoming my language advisor 🙂. And the hotel looks lovely.
@jean I did exactly the same when I visited Lisbon back in 1997! I got all into Pessoa and also made an attempt to learn the language through reading his poetry. I didn’t succeed, but my love for Pessoa remained.
@jean One unexpected aspect of moving internationally was being forced to say goodbye to weird souvenirs-disguised-as-recycling like the old FNAC bags we used to find at the bottom of the “bag of bags” from time to time!
@ArnoldHoogerwerf I never heard of him before the hotel. Now I’m really fascinated. A month before the trip, I saw Richard Zenith’s biography in a little bookstore on the coast, which felt portentous. (It’s 1000+ pages, or I would have bought it to take with me. 😅)
@jean Now you got me curious for that biography by Robert Zenith, is it the standard reference? (You would think so with 1000 pages!)
@ArnoldHoogerwerf The New York Times calls it definitive. All I know is that it was on a shelf in a tiny bookstore where I am moving, and I thought, "That's an unexpected stocking choice for the bookseller."