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The tech and digital revolution has, thankfully, also disrupted the linguistics sector and it’s something which Rosetta Stone has fully embraced (can you imagine carting a box of 24 or so CDs in your backpack with you in 2018?)Īll of Rosetta Stone’s twenty-four language courses can be accessed via their mobile app, and this offered us the ability and flexibility to learn wherever we were travelling. Way back when, Emily used a Rosetta Stone CD-learning pack to get her basic Spanish to you youngsters reading this, it may surprise you that that’s how we all used to learn languages for a very long time (in fact, that’s what Mr. Our aim was to do thirty minutes of dedicated learning each evening, with spontaneous bouts throughout the day on breaks if we felt the urge. Using a new language in the real world on any adventure opens up so many wonderful interactions and moments, as well as helping a traveller to navigate a new environment with confidence, and we wanted to arm ourselves with that ability in a language spoken on three continents.Īnd so, partnering with Rosetta Stone, we set ourselves a very personal challenge to get to a good level of Portuguese in only two months exclusively using their online learning programme.Īs our waistlines can attest to, living a life of near-constant travel can make building a positive daily routine really difficult learning a new language offered us the opportunity to change that. In fact, it wasn’t until we went to Brazil in 2016 and actually tuned into Portuguese, that we realised we had mistaken whole swathes of Portuguese speakers in London for Russians or Eastern Europeans.īut, with two trips to both Brazil and Portugal coming up in the next few months, it was time for Along Dusty Roads to do a Jamie and try to learn some Portuguese quite quickly! A marriage proposal may not be on the horizon, but it would make a seismic difference to our travel experience.

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Its pronunciation is full of unexpected z’s, j’s, and nasal twangs, which conspire to make it feel altogether more removed and distant to the English speaker’s ear than Spanish or French.

Portuguese, as evidenced by Jamie’s mangling of it, is a tough language. Jamie, played by Colin Firth, returns to London and begins to hastily learn Portuguese, culminating in the wonderful final scene where he, accompanied by her family and half the village, asks her to marry him in her mother tongue. Unable to speak each other's language, or to share a common one, they fall in love with the other secretly and silently. If you haven’t already seen it (seriously, where have you been?), then it’s the one between Jamie, the English writer, and Aurelia, his Portuguese housekeeper. In amongst the school play, the airport chase, Bill Nighy’s gyrating hips, the PM’s rousing speech, and every Rowan Atkinson scene, there is however only one of Love Actually’s criss-crossing love stories which is guaranteed to bring at least one of us to tears each and every Christmas.

Two years ago, as our Christmas day was ‘celebrated’ in an empty Argentine hostel in the middle of nowhere with a dirty pool and drizzly weather, watching the film together on our laptop was the only thing that gave us a sprinkling of the Christmas spirit. If Emily had her way, we would probably watch it in spring, summer, and autumn too, but Andrew has thus far managed to hold firm against this. Love Actually is a staple Christmas film in the Along Dusty Roads household.

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