After exhausting the limits of my Portuguese language skills the previous week in Rio, I carried on to Santiago, Chile. Spanish can’t be much more difficult, I presumed, but I was quickly corrected and advised that Chilean Spanish is often considered one of the hardest Spanish accents to understand, ¿Cachai? (which means “you know what I mean”, or “you understand”, or, much like my Canadian mother-tongue, “eh?”). Thus, I quickly figured out how to mangle another Latin language but luckily for me, the people of Santiago were very forgiving, in particular the dozens that came to attend the MEF seminar.

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