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When reporter Julia Furlan and her spouse had a baby,
they knew they wanted their child to be able to connect with Julia's Brazilian family and to grow up speaking both English and Portuguese.
But Julia is the only Portuguese speaker in the house, and for whatever reason,
she felt a little weird speaking Portuguese to a baby who couldn't talk back until she did.
Julia says it was exhilarating to watch her kid light up like this.
Even though I was the one who was actively trying to make it happen.
My mind was still blown when Leo started speaking Portuguese.
It also made me kind of emotional in a way that I did not expect.
It's like all of a sudden I remembered being a kid in Brazil in a different way.
And I think that one of the things that's really wonderful about it is
that there's so much Brazilian ness in Portuguese.