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I'm learning Portuguese right now, but I'm quickly realizing that pretty much no one speaks it.

How mutually intelligible is Portuguese and Spanish? People tell me all different things from zero intelligibility to quite a bit as long as you speak slowly. So what is it, /trv/?
>> Anonymous
They are sort of similar. You'll recognise words from Portugese when learning Spanish, and sometimes, depending on your level of Portugese, you will place words from that into Spanish by mistake. We're talking real native level though.
>> Anonymous
THIS IS NOT /lang/
>> Anonymous
>>19319

lol wuts /lang/
>> Anonymous
>>19324
As a newfag, you must now evacuate the premises with haste. Goodbye...
>> Anonymous
>>19310
i know a bit of spanish, but when i ear portuguese i don't understand anything... very différent language.
>> Anonymous
More people speak portuguese than french, fyi. If you master portuguese, you can learn french, italian and spanish a lot easier.
>> Anonymous
>>19332

Okay, let me clarify: There isn't anyone that speaks it in North America.

Thanks for the tips though, guys. I'm probably gonna learn French sooner or later, so that'll be nice.
>> Anonymous
>>19341
THEN GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! GUH
>> Anonymous
How did you begin taking Portuguese before you realized no one in Canada, the US or Mexico spoke it?

The sheer asswhackery of your knowledge acquisition astonishes and enrages me.
>> Anonymous
>>19310
portuguese is my main language, and i can say that it would probably be pretty easy to survive in any spanish speaking countries. if you can read portuguese, can read spanish, and in a much lesser level, french. Now, understanding spanish is easy, but understanding french is fucking difficult.
>> Anonymous
>>19349
There are Portuguese communities in Canada, though...
>> Anonymous
Brazil. Go there. Or Mozambique.
>> Anonymous
>>20002
And more than two million Brazilian illegals in US soil.
>> Anonymous
Brazilian Portuguese != European Portuguese

It's worse than Quebec French to European French, I've heard.
>> Anonymous
In general, portuguese speakers will understand some spanish, but not the other way around.
>> Anonymous
yes you can easily learn spanish after u learn portuguese. i never tried to learn french or italian, but i can understand a lot of words cuz they look the same.
idk your reasons to learn portuguese but if ur doing it because "a lot of people speak it", go for spanish not portuguese
>> Anonymous
>>20147

I'm wary of language advice from anyone who uses "ur".

portuguese dialects are heavy, and don't transfer well geographically. knowing portuguese helps learn spanish syntax, but it will screw you up when you get into the tiny differences; the la's and le's and los's and what-all.

I chose to learn latin early on, and I found it invaluable. it makes pretty much all romance languages a cakewalk, for obvious reasons.
>> Anonymous
>>20162
yea, ignore my advices about PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH just because my ENGLISH is not good. that makes a lot of sense
>> Anonymous
>>19310
my girlfriend is native spanish speaker (venezuela) and she can understand portuguese

i can read spanish somewhat, and therefore I can read portuguese to a lesser, but still greater than zero, degree