Originally Posted by
palangu
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non-fixie When Iived in São Paulo I was five or six years old. Too young to slot cars at Rua Augusta. However, I have raced them when living in Brasilia in the '80s. Now occurred to me that your portuguese is probably much better than my english.
Ha! No, I was never much good at Portuguese. Didn't really need to be, as I was surrounded by Americans pretty much every day at school. And what little was there is gone now, 45 years later. Still recognize the sound of Brazilian Portuguese immediately, though.
I did visit Brasilia in '74, and remember it well, as I was deeply impressed by the work of Oscar Niemeyer. I even went on to study architecture for a while because of him. Turned out I didn't have his talent.
