[MUSIC]
Meet Aida de Jesus. She's 103 years old.
I don't like to feel so old. I like to feel only 80.
Aida is from Macau, a Chinese city that was formerly
colonized by Portugal for 400 years.
She and her daughter Sonia are among the few people
who still speak Patuà, a critically endangered language
that is unique to Macau.
[MUSIC]
Here's a local music video with subtitles in four languages:
Patuà, Cantonese, Portuguese and English.
You can see how Patuà mixes the languages
of places along the Portuguese trade route
in the 16th century.
[MUSIC]
When I was in school, in our days
they didn't like us to speak Patuà,
because they used to say that it is not real Portuguese.