|
 |
Lisbon or Porto for the summer | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Advice Center |  | |
| crackpot Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6310 days ago 144 posts - 178 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 1 of 4 09 March 2017 at 10:18pm | IP Logged |
|
Hi All,
I'm going to take my son to Portugal for the summer (after one failed attempt) so that he can improve his Portuguese. I'm wondering if we should stay in Porto or Lisbon. We have three factors to consider: 1. Which city is more interesting in the summer? 2. Which city is cheaper for a 3-month rental? 3. My son has been studying Portuguese with three Brazilian girls (from São Paulo I believe), so would the Lisbon accent be easier for him or would the Porto accent be easier? Thanks in advance!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 4 15 March 2017 at 7:31pm | IP Logged |
|
We now have a new forum, you'll get better replies there.
I don't think #3 makes a difference, if he's been learning Brazilian Portuguese anyway. I think both cities are interesting in summer. Lisbon also has some very famous suburbs like Sintra/Cabo da Roca, Cascais etc... Look up the average temperatures online. I know Lisbon can be very hot in summer, I assume Porto too. Sintra is milder afaiu. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6712 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 4 16 March 2017 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
|
You can get from Porto to Lisboa in one day by train, so the touristical aspect shouldn't be the decisive factor. I have stayed in both places as a tourist (i.e. one week or less) so I can't say how it is to live in either town for several months, but both are fairly big and have many different environments, access to transport etc. and you won't be bothered by the minuscule differences in dialect, so at the end of the day the relevant question would probably be: where can you get the nicest and most economical place to stay?
4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Dannylearns Newbie Netherlands learnlanguage.me Joined 2730 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Studies: English* | Message 4 of 4 19 June 2017 at 4:09am | IP Logged |
|
This sounds great. I've been thinking of moving to live in Porto or Lisbon as well. I
checked and the rental prices in Lisbon are a little bit higher but the public transport is very good so you can afford to live out of the center a bit. I use the numbeo website to compare costs of the cities. hope all goes well! 1 person has voted this message useful |
If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login. If you are not already registered you must first register
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
