Nós falamos Português muito bem.
Life has been pretty stable and relaxing the last few weeks. We’re settling in to wait for Sophia to arrive.
Our language skills are slowly improving. Danny can understand most of what people say to him and can carry on a 10 minute conversation, especially if it’s about a topic he knows about, like the World Cup, Angola, or the role of the Holy Spirit in Acts. I (Katie) am a little farther behind. I can pick out lots of words but have a hard time stringing them all together unless I really know what the speaker is talking about already. I do a great job of carrying on conversations about Sophia. I say things like, “Yes, Sophia is good. She’s growing. She kicks a lot. I have a doctor’s appointment on Tuesday. I have one month left.” Throw in a few grammatical errors where I know better but they come out wrong anyway, and a few errors where I don’t know any better anyway, and you get the idea.
Here are a few of the more funny mistakes we or our teammates have made (some in class, some out):
The baby won’t stop raining until I feed her.
I nurse (breastfeed) all of my patients.
I started high school when I was 40. (I got 40 and 14 mixed up.)
My brother got a new job as an umbrella.
Eliana is doing well. Even though she doesn’t get as much time around Portuguese as we would like, she already understands that it is a different language and that things have 2 names. She’s picked up about a dozen or so Portuguese words and enjoys showing them off.
The girls in language class
