I will admit to a certain addiction to Scrabble, but this is the first time I've played it in Portuguese. No, I don't speak Portuguese. Is that a problem?
Somehow, I inadvertently changed the language on my iPhone, made the word "flame," thinking I was making it in English, but the electronic game thought I was writing in Portuguese. My opponent then made the word "laca," which led me to realize that I wasn't in Kansas anymore.
Did I quit? Did I give up? No. I know a few other languages, some even related to Porguguese. The weird part ... I'm not even doing that badly. At the moment, I'm ahead by four points.
I like to play in French. Sometimes I win. Sometimes I lose. I have an actual board game of Scrabble in English and one in French. My husband and I play Scrabble on my Kindle during our annual New England-style town meetings. Here I just made the word "doué" (it's somewhat humorous that it means "gifted," isn't it?) and am ahead by 12 points. On verra ...
And mostly, I play in English, my native language. It's a good distraction when I'm waiting to pick up one of my children or sitting through a 30-minute piano lesson.
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