Just for fun

 

We chatted with a young German guy who's been going to our school. When we came to the part about why he wanted to learn Brazilian Portuguese, he had the greatest answer. He said it sounded fun. He thought it would be fun to learn and fun to speak. He already had German and French and Spanish and English, so why not get a little entertainment out of the next one, Right? He explained this to us in slow and careful Portuguese, which, after a semester in college and a week and a half at our school, he was mastering. In times of linguistic trouble, I want to channel this boy and to remind myself that this is fun. It totally is. We get to say words like paralelepípedo and yell "sextou!" on Fridays and we get to meet fun people. When you get right down to it, you'd have to hate fun not to learn Brazilian Portuguese.