Oh. I am really glad that I can unexpectedly introduce you the word 'desideratum'! And it is great for me to know that you start to learn Portuguese and prepare to move to Portugal in the near future. I am looking forward to reading your new series of blogs about Portugal. I guess it must be a wonderful and historical country full of sunshine although I am extremely ignorant about it(It is said that Spain is known for its sunshine).
As far as I know, Latin is the common root of French, Italian and Spanish. I just learned the only Italian word 'adagio' from your Haiku. I feel Moorish influence should be a kind of language from North Africa(maybe similar to Arabic), ok？
Yeah, Teacher Mike always tries to teach the real English in daily life, even including the expressions with the 'F*ck' word. I love his teaching style.