More details on my husband's story: Though his parents are both Brasilian, his mother spent most of her youth going to boarding schools in England and, in fact, her dad was Irish. She had many Irish cousins and always felt a very strong bond with them. So, though Portuguese was her first language, it was pretty much eclipsed by English. Oscar's father grew up in a German family and hence German was his first language. But he spoke Portuguese outside of his home, though he went to a German school. When they all came to the US, (when O was 16 months old,)O's dad would have been trying to perfect his English. So it's not too surprising that they didn't speak Portuguese. Unfortunate, however.
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Date: 2010-06-17 04:39 am (UTC)