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| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5081 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes  Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 25 of 34 28 January 2012 at 9:35am | IP Logged | |||||
It sounds to me like you've already decided on Portuguese. Go learn that. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 26 of 34 28 January 2012 at 9:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah, it does feel like the OP just needs confirmation that it won't be a waste of time to study it instead of Spanish.
I'd say that's a bit like asking whether ice cream or chocolate is tastier :))) The answer will depend on the person, and while some like one but not the other, most people find them both very tasty. Ie compared to several thousand languages, they are both so useful that the difference between them is negligible. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| K2n Newbie United States Joined 4705 days ago 5 posts - 7 votes | Message 27 of 34 29 January 2012 at 5:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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Not at all; I apologize if my first post sounded biased. I think I naturally tend to
"boost" an underdog a little whenever I ask a question that has a comparison Edited by K2n on 29 January 2012 at 5:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4900 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 28 of 34 01 February 2012 at 3:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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You could always do one then the other. They're so similar. I am fluent in Spanish
and I love Portuguese. Their sound is so much different even though words look the same, and false cognates can be fun. Spanish would be easier to learn first, then once you have a command of it, learn Portuguese in the Spanish. A lot of universities (not mine unfortunately) teach Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, as a lot of people have the base or even fluency and it makes learning Portuguese a breeze. Whatever to people that talk about equality regarding languages; there are a lot more countries that speak Spanish (including 10% of the US) than there are lusophone countries, notwithstanding the size and power of Brazil. I'd love to study Cherokee someday, but the usefulness of it has pushed me to other tongues I can actually speak on a normal basis. (Cherokee and Irish can wait for a bit) Why all the altruism? I like to think of Latin America as similar to the MENA region: Arabic is more studied language, but Turkey is emerging to be the leader of the region so Turkish is becoming a lot like Portuguese for Brazil. [I'm aware of the Afro-Asiatic vs Altaic divide, so no they aren't that similar from a language pt of view, but rather from an overall cultural/geogpolitical view] Or even the German/Swedish or German/Dutch gameplans. Learn the wider-studied or more popular language then move onto the similar but smaller language. I like both of them, but for you being an American like I, Spanish makes sense, then Portuguese, which will not be that difficult with the strong base in Spanish. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6380 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 29 of 34 03 February 2012 at 12:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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Consider the places you'd like to live too...don't forget the issues in Mexico at this
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| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4979 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 30 of 34 03 February 2012 at 8:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Also, Spanish is getting taught more and more in Brazil...
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| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 31 of 34 03 February 2012 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Poorly taught, just like English. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| KimG Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 4975 days ago 88 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Portuguese, Swahili | Message 32 of 34 04 February 2012 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've noticed quite many Brazilians seems unable to speak English. Are there anything with English making it hard to learn, or is the schools just wery bad at teaching? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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