Riddle

I moved from the US to Portugal and have been taking classes. I can read Portuguese at a basic level and with enough effort write it. However, I cannot understand it when spoken by a Portuguese native speaker. There are a lot of words smushed together that just don’t register in my brain. Oddly, I can understand it when a non native speaker speaks it (I guess, Portuguese with an accent?). I work with people from all around Europe and I can understand, for instance, a Romanian guy speaking Portuguese just fine (though I don’t know any Romanian).

It’s not a hearing problem, it’s just that it sounds so different that my brain isn’t really picking out the separation in words and so I can’t understand it.

It is digital.

Uncomfortable news is not like wine. It doesn’t get better with age. Tell them sooner rather than later. If nothing else, it’ll give you more time to work on whatever needs to be worked on afterwards.

The whiteboard is the most remarkable invention though.