Moving to a new country means getting used to a lot of new things. One of the most complicated is the language. You may have heard people saying Portuguese is hard to learn – and they’re not exaggerating! With that in mind, here is a quick survival kit with some basic words and expressions to…
(Lou) Last week was definitely an interesting one. Both Ben and I have work stacked up in front of us, which is great as we save up for the (ever closer) impending arrival of our little bundle of joy later this year. The alternately cloudy, sunny and blustery weather has suited our indoor lifestyle, which…
Life in Portugal can be tricky enough when you’re trying to negotiate the endless paperwork or identify strange looking cuts of meat in the butcher’s, let alone when you try and work out how to speak Portuguese. The difficulty with learning Portuguese is that what you say and hear doesn’t seem to correspond much with…
Confession time. I’m rather ashamed to say that, after over three years in the Algarve, I still cannot speak Portuguese particularly well. Don’t get me wrong, I do get by, but I think the naïve, pre-expat me thought it would be much easier than this. Well, let me tell you, it’s not. After three years,…