It was frustrating to type so slowly but at the same time it was fun to be writing out words that had seemed so foreign before. After a few days of practice I got to the point where I could type at a normal speed without slowing down at all when typing accents. Typing with Portuguese accents was a little awkward at first and it took me just as long to type a single letter with an accent as it did to type a paragraph without one. It also didn’t help that I didn’t have these letters on my keyboard and was unfamiliar with how to type them. One day I found a post on an old blog about how to type Portuguese accents on a regular keyboard and I felt liberated, as if I had just broken out of prison.
Once upon a time before I had ever been to Brazil, I used to look at all the accents in Portuguese words and think, “ooh how exotic.”īy putting a little hat on the letter e it went from being a symbol that I recognized and associated with a particular sound to something scary and foreign.
