I’m heading to Portugal in November, so it’s time to get my Portuguese back in shape. My favorite tool for this is the point-of-view story: the same simple story told in different persons and tenses, so I get lots of repetition with just enough novelty. This time I asked LingQ’s AI to build the stories around Vila Real de Santo António, the town I plan to visit, in European Portuguese. Even the back-and-forth with the AI turned into a first pass at the vocabulary I’ll need. How do you prepare for a trip to a country whose language you’re learning?
