During a recent trip to Portugal, I gave a tour guide a small tip. A few minutes later, I was drinking wine at noon and getting some unexpectedly good language-learning advice from the woman pouring it. It all happened near Vila Real, a small city in northern Portugal, where my dad and I were staying […]
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