Say What?

Spending two months back in the US for the holidays did not help my already sucky Portuguese. My sleep deprived baby brain cannot seem to keep up. My mouth just keeps spitting words out and I try to bring them back in but it I can't! 

Funny thing is that this time around I hear the words but it's taking me a more than a minute to decipher. I will here the word. Then my brain says, "oh, you just heard the following, 'dela' 'la' 'proximo' 'baxio'" blah blah blah. So I hear all these words I know and I can't put the sentence together. Make sense? It's like my brain pauses to congratulate itself for remembering what the word means. Then by the time that it's done clapping for itself I have missed the rest of the sentence being spoken!

Good thing I can fake it like the best of them. You hear the verb and guesstimate what the rest is :) I will probably have to do this until A. I can get some more sleep and B. I can hire a Portuguese teacher. 

I wish that I was one of the few self driven people but my self study has brought me this far and it really has come to an end. Time to buck up and really get after it.

I vow to search for a Portuguese tutor within the next week!


Tchau,
Sara