Learning languages is fun, but more difficult as you get older. I was a Spanish major at university and spent a year studying abroad in Madrid my junior year. After a year I was at about a B2/C1 level. My senior year I needed another class to fill my schedule and decided to take Portuguese. My knowledge of Spanish certainly helped me pic…
Learning languages is fun, but more difficult as you get older. I was a Spanish major at university and spent a year studying abroad in Madrid my junior year. After a year I was at about a B2/C1 level. My senior year I needed another class to fill my schedule and decided to take Portuguese. My knowledge of Spanish certainly helped me pick up Portuguese pretty easily (although we were taught Brasilian Portuguese at the University of California). Grammatically they are very similar although Spanish uses the reflexive verb a lot more than Portuguese and Portuguese has a future subjunctive verb form while Spanish does not. I still understand Spanish a lot better than Portuguese (when in Spain I understand about 80-90% of what is said on the radio, while in PT I only understand about 70%) however, after 4 years here when I try to speak Spanish a lot comes out Portuguese, the exact opposite of when we moved here in 2020. We lived in China from 2015-2018 and the first year I tried really hard to learn Chinese, but after about 6 months I gave up. Too much of a tonal language. I would say things on the street only to receive blank stares. Still I managed to get about a 200-300 word vocabulary (including the numbers)
Learning languages is fun, but more difficult as you get older. I was a Spanish major at university and spent a year studying abroad in Madrid my junior year. After a year I was at about a B2/C1 level. My senior year I needed another class to fill my schedule and decided to take Portuguese. My knowledge of Spanish certainly helped me pick up Portuguese pretty easily (although we were taught Brasilian Portuguese at the University of California). Grammatically they are very similar although Spanish uses the reflexive verb a lot more than Portuguese and Portuguese has a future subjunctive verb form while Spanish does not. I still understand Spanish a lot better than Portuguese (when in Spain I understand about 80-90% of what is said on the radio, while in PT I only understand about 70%) however, after 4 years here when I try to speak Spanish a lot comes out Portuguese, the exact opposite of when we moved here in 2020. We lived in China from 2015-2018 and the first year I tried really hard to learn Chinese, but after about 6 months I gave up. Too much of a tonal language. I would say things on the street only to receive blank stares. Still I managed to get about a 200-300 word vocabulary (including the numbers)
It seems to me that in general in Spanish you pronounce everything, whereas in Portuguese....