Spanish for learning Portuguese
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Spanish and Portuguese are 2 West-Iberian languages. There are many similarities between them. For examples, "Olá" = "Hola", "Bom dia" = "Buenos días", Boa sorte" = "Buena Suerte", "falar" = "hablar", "rainha" = "reina", "Senhor" = "Señor", "escrever" = "escribir", "cidade" = "ciudad", "Junho" = "Junio", etc.¿Can we learn Portuguese by ourselves if we know Spanish quite well?
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That is an interesting question. My answer to that has to be yes. I worked in Brazil for two years. The first 3 months I spoke Spanish and was understood by most people. Slowly, as my ear adapted to the language my Spanish slowly turned into Portuguese as if by magic. I cannot write Portuguese but I certainly have no problems reading or speaking. I might be wrong, but I get the impression that a Portuguese speaker understands Spanish better than a Spanish speaker understands Portuguese. Esta tudo bem entendido?
Hi Francis, I agree with this, the other way round it works fine, many Portuguese understand Spanish, but most people don't understand Portuguese.
