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Bruno87
Diglot
Groupie
Argentina
Joined 4383 days ago
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Speaks: Spanish*, English
Studies: German, Portuguese

Message 9 of 10

27 August 2013 at 3:39am | IP Logged

Yep, Spanish and Portuguese are so similar that it's hard to me, as a native speaker of
Spanish, try to learn Portuguese seriously. Sometimes when I'm studying it I think "oh!
Actually I don't need to study it after all! I understand everything!" but then I have
a hard time when try to speak it properly.

Medulin wrote:

Portuguese: dinamarquês, norueguês
Arg.Spanish: dinamarqués, noruego
Other Spanish: danés, noruego

"Danés" and "Dinamarqués" are both accepted in all Spanish versions.

Medulin wrote:

(Voy a visitarte año que viene is agrammatical in Spanish,
Eu vou visitar você o ano que vem is borderline acceptable in Portuguese, many
Brazilians would find it odd).

Well, I wouldn't say that "Voy a visitarte año que viene" is agrammatical. Actually "Te
voy a ir visitar el año que viene" (don't know if is grammatically incorrect) sounds
more natural to me than "Te visitaré el año que viene" (certainly more grammatically
correct).

Cristianoo wrote:

Although some Spanish speakers try to tell you they don't understand portuguese, thats
NOT TRUE. They do. They understand almost everything.

I can second that.

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anime
Triglot
Senior Member
Sweden
Joined 6361 days ago
161 posts - 207 votes

Speaks: Spanish, Swedish*, English
Studies: German, Portuguese, French, Russian

Message 10 of 10

27 August 2013 at 10:51am | IP Logged

Bruno87 wrote:

This sounds like the feeling I get with Norwegian. I can't bring myself to study it cos it's feels almost like a
dialect of Swedish, yet many words are slightly different (like replacing an a with e, shortening the word,
changing some other spelling or whatever) and it just ends up confusing me trying to speak it, though I can
read Norwegian fairly fluently. However, I do not have this problem separating Spanish and Portuguese so I
guess it applies mostly to your native language or something.

Edited by anime on 27 August 2013 at 10:54am
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