Portuguese

Yeah.

Because all these people saying, "You know, your English is kind of off and blah, blah, blah." Bitch, you, y- you gonna learn Portuguese? Yeah.

At least Thomas tried to learn Portuguese.

Well, he learned it pretty well, and that's a really- And it's, it's pretty good ... fucking hard language to learn.

It's pretty good.

Yeah.

Then interestingly, there is these crazy things like the, most of the, uh, sailors, be it Spanish or British or Dutch or Portuguese, they will struggle to have fresh meat in the boats when they travel for months and months.

So they were ge- getting these tortoises and then put them upside down on the cellar.

And there is accounts of, like, one ship arriving and getting 2,000 tortoises.

And off the top of my head, one is obviously the network effects.

It's the same as a language, like if I'm transacting with a counterparty in Brazil, They speak Portuguese.

I speak French.

The two languages are very close in general, but the easiest way to understand each other will still be switching to English.

So Fall River, where she grew up, had mostly a waspy population.

But at this time in the late 1800s, we have a lot of immigration coming in, mainly Portuguese, Italian and Irish immigrants.

But whenever there was a crime, who did they blame? The immigrants.

The immigrants.

JJ, I'll bring up the still you shared with us earlier on this, where you can see Fernandes.

Yes, it's Fernandes, but as the English guy doesn't speak Portuguese, I'm just being told I have to call him Fernandes.

So there's Fernandes at right-back position, as you can see on your screen.

You can see Archie Gray inverted into midfield.

Our foreign listeners, we've got listeners from all over the world, from the US, from the UK, from the Netherlands, from pretty much every part of the world.

And they're always very curious about our Portuguese guests and where they're from, their terra, where they're from in Portugal.

So tell us a little bit about where you're from.

So I'm from Porto, that like any good Portuguese will say that his own terra is the best place in Portugal.

So Porto is the second biggest city in Portugal, so in the north, an amazing city for...

For how it can be lived with the river, with the ocean, with the great architecture, with the size being, in my opinion, almost a perfect size because it's a big city, in a sense, you can do...

And that's a little bit...

I don't think that's a Porto thing.

Excuse me.

Um, I couldn't remember if it was, um, Spanish or, um, if it leaked in Portuguese, but, um, yeah, like you were saying, like, yeah, you had the same exact reaction back then as now.

Like, it was like in my, like, it was just, it was interesting, like rediscovering stuff like that.

But, um, yeah, I mean, I think the... one thing I was thinking about was like, yeah, like the ending, like the final, the venom of the red Lotus is, you know, very, very good is, does it still hold up? Um, is it still seem as dramatic and intense as it did the first time? And, um, it's just, it's, it's interesting.

And then I will read the poem in its original language.

So the poems will be either in Portuguese, in Spanish or in French.

And I really urge you to listen to both because especially if you don't understand the language, you will be able to hear the rhythm and you will sense the difference in rhythm between the English version and the other original language.

language of the poem and since this is a recording you can go back and forth I will mark the readings in chapters so you can go and hope from one to the other if you want to you don't have to obviously that's what art wonderment is for me the relationship to all art forms via experiences direct experiences and then mediated experiences through different kinds of technologies you have Emily Dickinson's pencil which was also a technology.

And there's also the change and the development of different art forms, as we've seen with the etymology of the word painting, but also of the word sculpture in ancient Greek.

What can you expect? So episodes will be released monthly, if all goes well.

In terms of languages and authors, I will start with Luís de Camões, the Portuguese epic Renaissance poet who wrote an exquisite sonnet about change, as exquisite as it is untranslatable.

Then I will venture into Argentinian lands with Roberto Roajos, whose vertical poetry is absolutely breathtaking.

You know, we backed the apartheid government.

We backed Portuguese colonialism.

You know, our companies had, you know, oil spills.

People died.