Tag: language
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What Bob Dylan taught me about Portuguese, ChatGPT, and the future of creativity
“Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want.” This lyric from Blonde on Blonde has been bouncing around my head over the last week. No, minha esposa and I are not going through a crisis, nor am I feeling existential in my musings, but rather I’ve been thinking about the…
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Slowly But Surely
“O-bri-ga-do!” “O-bri-ga-da!” At dinner with her parents, Marilia was mimicking the Brazilian and Quebecois women sitting behind us on our flight from Bogota to Sao Paulo who decided that a seven-hour flight that landed at 2:00am was a great place for an impromptu language exchange. Marilia contined – “As mulheres falaram por cinco horas –…
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Pew… Pew-Pew! Pew-Pew!
The sounds you hear in your head (hopefully) are me shooting at the hip while trying to learn Portuguese. Through trial and error and research, I’m figuring what works best for me. *** “But Dad, if his wife is Brazilian, why does he come to our house?” The son of my language exchange partner asked…
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