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Tan’ka, it reads like a part of a book. You have to write one some day:)

And it really holds me in suspense, even though I know the rest of the story:)

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Jan 24Liked by Tanya Mozias

Thank God I didn't even attempt to learn the written language or gramma. Those grammatical rules you included here would definitely give me anxiety if not depression!

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Hi, somehow post is super relatable for me.

I'm a Vietnamese with zero experience with Romance language, and I'm trying to learn Portuguese in 2 weeks so that I can use it on my trip to Portugal. I don't have any serious reason to learn the language, heck, I don't even have any exposure to any Romance languages before, I just decided it on a whim after I booked my trip to the country. Like "if I will be surrounded by Portuguese for a whole week, why not learn the languge? "

Vietnamese is also a tonal language (6 tones) with dead simple grammar (no gender, no tenses, verbs only have one form). Thai is also easily mistaken as Vietnamese if heard from afar, despite that 2 quite a different origin.

You are trying to make sense of tonal language, and I'm trying to make sense of all the

and tenses.

Anyway, looking forward to the next chapters of your challenge.

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This is so exciting! Good luck with Portuguese!

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I'm intrigued. Sometimes our desire to learn and help others makes us do things we'd never expect to do.

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This is so cool. To be honest, from the start I thought it must have something to do with one of the Thai workers....can't wait to find out how it goes!

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