Sunday, September 30, 2012

Spanish with an Impediment


This evening I spoke Spanish to a woman.  It was really hard to understand her--for a moment I thought it was my rusty Spanish, but then it sounded like she just had a bad impediment.

Turns out she's Brazilian and was speaking Portuguese. 

I'm sure the hundreds of millions of people who speak Portuguese would be glad to hear that, to me, their language is just Spanish with a collective impediment.

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