Bolivia was a great experience, a beautiful country and we absolutely loved it.... but it wasn't always easy and therefore we crossed into Brasil thinking the hard part was over, we can deal with anything now! Until..... we tried to communicate. Of course we knew people spoke portuguese instead of Spanish, but our Spanish was quite reasonable by now and how different can it be? Well, let me tell you...Very!! On paper it looks quite similar, but as soon as the first person started to talk to me all I could hear was something that sounding like a combination of Swedish, Russian and probably some Spanish. My brain couldn't figure it out and it definitely took us about a week before we started to get somewhat fimiliar with the language. It was a very frustrating experience,
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