Hi Agnese. Your post reminds me of my own situation, also being married to a Portuguese person. You would think that having a Portuguese spouse is the ultimate learning resource, effectively practice on demand. However, in my case it doesnt quite work like that; although my spouse is really keen for me to learn and is pleased that im learning, whenever i try to speak to her in her mother tongue, a look of dread crawls over her face and she looks at me as if ive just announced that my hovercraft is full of eels; she does try to be a sport and play along but after 5 minutes it sort of flops out; she says its basically just too weird and prefers me in English! I wonder if other people have similar experiences when learning their partner’s language…
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