We engage in a friendly struggle with most of the English-speaking Brazilians we meet. The struggle is that we want to use our Portuguese and they want to use their English. Usually whoever can speak best wins. As might be expected, we have had a lot of conversations in English but that is beginning to change. We have a neighbor who was clearly excited to practice his English the first time he met us. Carol chatted with him again this morning and he agreed that her Portuguese was the better than his English and they carried on in Portuguese. It hasn't happened to me yet but I'm proud of Carol and her perfect pronunciation and well-tuned ear. It was just the first of many future conversations in Portuguese with English-speaker and I'm sure that I too will start having these kinds of conversations soon.
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