re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Indeed. In many ways, Brazil is a world unto itself, vast and complex, primitive and rough in places, dizzyingly sophisticated and nuanced in others. That world was open to me because I speak Portuguese. It is much easier to learn than Japanese but few Americans bother to do so.

When I taught myself French to cope with the Trump administration, it was like walking into an animal shelter to adopt a pet, only to have one of the pets adopt YOU. That has been my French experience: La langue Française choisi MOI!