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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6123 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes  22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 9 of 24 19 April 2011 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, it was quite an interesting experiment. It really proved the thesis of the book by Teyssier, Comprendre les langues romanes, that of the 5 major Romance languages, the "southern" ones, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, are more intercomprehensible than French and Romanian, which are the outliers. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Raye Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5155 days ago 37 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: DutchB1 | Message 10 of 24 20 April 2011 at 2:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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I’m a non-native Spanish speaker. Portuguese has never looked “free” enough for me, but I don’t know the exact cost in hours of getting to intermediate level, for someone who knows Spanish. Less than French, I guess, but less than Italian, also? I don’t know.
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| pushkin Tetraglot Groupie France Joined 5520 days ago 49 posts - 60 votes Speaks: French*, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), German, Modern Hebrew | Message 11 of 24 20 April 2011 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Do native Portuguese speakers understand Galician ?
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| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6070 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 12 of 24 20 April 2011 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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without previous exposure or/and some training?
just a little bit.. there are a lot of false friends, and portuguese pronunciation could make things a lil bit harder 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Capsula Diglot Groupie Andorra Joined 5263 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes Studies: Catalan*, Spanish, English Studies: Italian | Message 13 of 24 20 April 2011 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Spanish is not my first language but this is not important since I'm bilingual.
Portuguese is very easy to understand when written (90-95%) but spoken... I'm confused. Sometimes I can confuse Portuguese with an African language Others, I can pick up only a few words And finally, sometimes I can undesrtand it fairly well. So, I don't know. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5230 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 14 of 24 21 April 2011 at 3:38am | IP Logged | |||||
I'd say I understand most of it, even though reading is easier, obviously, but it's not hard at all to understand when someone is speaking. Well, actually I've never met anyone who speaks Galician, but I saw some videos. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| KimG Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 4978 days ago 88 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Portuguese, Swahili | Message 15 of 24 21 April 2011 at 11:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm one of those unusual people who started studying Portuguese without learning any Spanish, and so far it starts looking as the oposite is true too, I am starting to understand a bit Spanish.
I have read almost an entire internet link to an newspaper, thought "wow what a funny looking portuguese", then started spotting words I know is Spanish.. :p I was never really good at hearing the differences on the two languages to begin with, for me it sounded as an odd Spanish dialect, thought now I sometime confuse some odder Spanish dialects with odd brazilian :p But I am an Norwegian, and am used to talking to people speaking an close related language (I've grown up on the border to sweden, know swedes of speaking all sort of dialects, and grew up with a danish speaking boy in my class), I'm used to speaking using 3 noun genders in norwegian, hearing replies using 2(swedish and a odd norwegian dialect), switching from using Dative case to locals and not to outsiders,hearing a lot of odd regional sound variations from scandinavia, and for me figuring out the differences between Spanish and Portuguese isnt that hard. I just don't know Portuguese enough to do much with it though... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LandTortoise Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5222 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Welsh | Message 16 of 24 27 May 2011 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have recently returned from Portugal where I tended to use Spanish in my interactions.
They seemed easily understood but on no occasion did a Portuguese person reply in Spanish- always in Portuguese and, as others say, sometimes it was easy to understand , other times unintelligible. I do think though that it would only take a month or so of daily exposure to become intelligible to someone who speaks Spanish 1 person has voted this message useful |
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