How delicious my English is

In "How Tasty My English" (Como é Gostoso o Meu Inglês), journalist Cátia Moraes recounts a unique personal experience that is currently shared by millions of people around the world: living in a foreign country to learn and study a language. The desire to live outside Brazil, even for a short period, learn English, break free from routine, and meet different people and cultures is described in a chronicle of daily life permeated with the feelings and experiences of those who take risks in search of the unknown. "Better late than never." It was with this thought that Cátia Moraes embarked for England to live one of the most rewarding experiences of her life. After countless attempts to learn English, she decided that, in addition to learning, living in a foreign country would be ideal for breaking routine, debunking myths, venturing into unknown places, and connecting with people from various continents. "Como é Gostoso o Meu Inglês" reveals the daily life of a Brazilian woman in Oxford, "the city of students," where Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, and J.R.R. Tolkien also studied. From the initial challenges, such as understanding the accent of the talkative Pakistani driver who took her from London to Oxford, to being able to interview one of her best teachers, Cátia Moraes recounts with good humor and sensitivity the difficulties and discoveries in learning English, her progress in the intensive course, her enchantment and surprises with everyday life and the city, and the inevitable "embarrassments." The narrative travels through parallel universes, starting with the daily life of the student who seeks to grasp everything in class, content, and interaction with classmates, teachers, and her very special "English family"; moving on to the chronicle of the "resident," who embarks on reflections on what she observes of the intense, contradictory, and extraordinary feelings that transform all the inhabitants of this planet into citizens of the world; and to the stylistic search of the author, whose text makes stops in prose, chronicle, poetry, and the internet, and fragments to the rhythm of her necessary freedom of language. Como é gostoso o meu Inglês (How Tasty My English) shows, in a fun and exciting way, that traveling to learn a language is an experience within reach of anyone, at any age. Go ahead!