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Portuguese has a lot of slurred sounds, it is a very fluid language, as opposed to Spanish, where words are more deliberate. ... European Portuguese sounds very different from Brazilian or African Portuguese, and people in the rest of Latin and South America all speak Spanish but with a different twist.
- Can a Portuguese person understand Spanish?
- Is Spanish and Portuguese similar?
- How much does Portuguese differ from Spanish?
- How do you tell Portuguese and Spanish apart?
- Is Spanish easier than Portuguese?
- Is Portuguese worth learning?
- Can Portuguese speakers understand Brazilian?
- What is the hardest language to learn?
- Why does Brazil speak Portuguese and not Spanish?
Can a Portuguese person understand Spanish?
Well, Portuguese is not the same as Spanish, but most Portuguese will understand Spanish, whereas not all Spanish people can understand Portuguese. They vary: many Brazillians do understand Spanish and some of those who do ...can also speak reasonable Spanish too.
Is Spanish and Portuguese similar?
Portuguese and Spanish are both Ibero-Romance languages which share the common "Vulgar Latin" ancestor along with French, Catalan, and Italian. Portuguese and Spanish share an 89% lexical similarity, meaning that there are equivalent forms of words in both languages.
How much does Portuguese differ from Spanish?
Portuguese was 31%, making it the second furthest language from Latin after French (44% distance). The most obvious differences are in pronunciation.
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False friends.
| Portuguese | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| risco (< Lat. reseca) | riesgo (< Arabic rizq or maybe Italian rischio) | risk, line |
How do you tell Portuguese and Spanish apart?
The tilde a followed by o is a dead giveaway for Portuguese. Also Portuguese has lots of words ending with m, while the same words in Spanish would end with n. Portuguese has barely no "y" whereas that is common in Spanish. Especially the word "y" which means "and" in Spanish is a dead giveaway.
Is Spanish easier than Portuguese?
For most native English speakers, Spanish is slightly easier to learn than Portuguese. ... Portuguese, on the other hand, has nine vowel sounds. Spelling is also more difficult because Portuguese has more silent letters and accents than Spanish.
Is Portuguese worth learning?
Yes, it is useful, I'm Brazilian and the Portuguese Language is spoken by 250,000,000 people in the world, Portugal and Brazil are famous countries, however, Portuguese is spoken by 10 countries, it is spoken in some countries in Africa like Angola and Mozambique and it's the sixth most spoken language in the world.
Can Portuguese speakers understand Brazilian?
The answer is yes, but you will have to speak a bit slower to most Brazilians, since they are not so used to listening to Portuguese with "Portuguese accent". The other way around is easier because Portuguese people are used to listen to Brazilian accent in soap operas. In Angola, Mozambique, etc.
What is the hardest language to learn?
The Hardest Languages In The World To Learn
- Mandarin. Right at the top is the most spoken language in the world: Mandarin. ...
- Arabic. Number two, Arabic, challenges English speakers because most letters are written in 4 different forms depending on where they're placed in a word. ...
- Japanese. ...
- Hungarian. ...
- Korean. ...
- Finnish. ...
- Basque. ...
- Navajo.
Why does Brazil speak Portuguese and not Spanish?
In an attempt to stymie its rival, Spain sought support from the pope, Spanish-born Alexander VI. He created a line of demarcation to divide the nations' claims as part of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. That miraculous and fateful decision is why Brazilians speak Portuguese.
