Trotinetas in the Learning Portuguese Series
2023-03-21
“Trotinetas” is another illustration from my “Learning Portuguese with the News” series. I was working on that series back in early 2023. Around that time, I was putting more effort into brushing up on European Portuguese, reading and watching more local newspapers, to get used to these small differences within our own language.
So the “patinetes elétricos” from Brazil became, for me, “trotinetas” here in Portugal.
In Brazil, especially in São Paulo, they’d already become an urban plague, causing plenty of accidents. The same happened here in Portugal, where they’ve caused a few casualties too.
The news of the illustration is here.