A Comforting Thought About Learning Portuguese

The one thing the image above doesn’t say is that the second you leave your comfort zone, you’re creating a new comfort zone. It’s pretty safe to say most people are, in fact, creatures of comfort. We seek out places, people and situations that make us feel good. Even for people like me who grew up moving around, I still do it because that’s what I’m comfortable doing. Comfort can be felt in many ways, though.

How I Learned Portuguese in Two Months

As a gringo living in Brazil, there is a list of questions that pretty much every Brazilian will ask you. The first one is, “What are you doing here?” the second “Do you like it here?” and the third “Where did you learn to speak Portuguese?” I answered the first two questions last week so today I am going to talk about how I learned Portuguese.