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| patoso Groupie United States Joined 6270 days ago 53 posts - 40 votes | Message 1 of 43 29 September 2007 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is Portuguese a good language to learn? I know Spanish, should I learn advanced portuguese also?
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| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6267 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 2 of 43 29 September 2007 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you speak Spanish, you have 60-70% of portugues. They are so close that a colombian man can speak Spanish with a brazilian friend, and the brazilian one speaks in portugues. Despite no one of them has studied the other language, If they speak slowly, the understanding rate is above to 90%.
Why Learn portugues? Because Brazil is the smile of the world!! You must to meet the brazilian people to know what's the real "joie de vivre" (i don't know the exacts words in english). See the brazilian Torcida in the soccer matches and you understand In addition, You have almost 200 million people to practice, wonderful and important cities to visit (Lisboa, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Curitiba), another not so beautiful but very interesant, like Manaus (in the heart of the Amazon Forest), the biggest carnival in the whole world... Another powerful reason: The soccer. If you are a biologist, ecologist or anthopologist, Brazil is a very importnt country to do a doctorate or a master title. if you are linguistic and love the languages, you can learn dozens of them spoken by the brazilian communities indigenous. You're business is import/export? you have in Brazil a very big market, and some of the most demanded products: Sugar, Coffe, Oil... Another powerful reason: The music. Brazilian music is very beautiful, varied, and invite to dancing inmediatly. Why not to learn portuguese? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Paul Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7119 days ago 114 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 43 29 September 2007 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Because it is a surprisingly interesting and beautiful language in itself, taking most people by surprise. To my
ears it sounds closer to Italian than to Spanish in certain ways, or maybe a 'cleaner' version of Spanish with lovely melodic intonation. Personally i think Brasilian Portuguese is the most beautiful latin language, even more so than Italian. First there is Brasil, a huge diverse country, which like El Forastero said above has pretty much everything you could want, from carnival to alternative music, from football and beaches to cutting edge cinema and art, from the amazon rainforest to massive vibrant global cities like São Paulo (which despite what you see on the news, is a relatively safe city). Then there's beautiful Portugal. Lisboã is without doubt one of Europe's most vibrant, and simultaneously laid- back cities (forget Madrid), with amazing nightlife. If Andalucía (Spain) and the Algarve is our California, then Lisboã is our San Francisco (it even has a sister bridge to the golden gate, the Ponte 25 de Abril!) Also like the Brasilians, the Portuguese are very friendly welcoming people, and yes they also have a great football team. Edited by Paul on 29 September 2007 at 3:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6854 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 43 29 September 2007 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Portuguese is a great sounding language. The Brazilian, European and even African varieties all have their charms. It's also a language of some great music and literature. Then as has already been mentioned, Brazil and Portugal are lovely places to visit and if you wanted to be a bit more adventurous, you could go as far as Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, East Timor and Macau where Portuguese may not always be the most popular language, but it is an official one.
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| caylerp Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6376 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 5 of 43 29 September 2007 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am a newbie here. But, I could not let this thread go by without a comment. I agree with all the above comments.
For me, I love the sound of Port. I agree with the comment that it sounds like Italian. In fact, people on the street have asked me if I am speaking Italian while speaking with Brasilian friends visiting me here in the USA. Brasil is a wonderful and friendly place, and I cannot wait to return. I have a goal to travel to all the major countries of the Western Hemisphere. It is a challenge for me finding someone to make conversation in Portuguese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6267 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 6 of 43 29 September 2007 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can hear two powerful reasons, by Beth Carvalho:
Se voce quiser Com a vida que pediste a Deus 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FlorentT Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 6318 days ago 119 posts - 120 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: Portuguese, Flemish, German, Hindi | Message 7 of 43 30 September 2007 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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To build on the above: try to listen to a couple of "Café Brasil" podcasts @ http://www.lucianopires.com.br The sound of the language and the great music sound very convincing to me! Edited by FlorentT on 30 September 2007 at 2:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zorglub Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 6998 days ago 441 posts - 504 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin | Message 8 of 43 01 October 2007 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||
Muito obrigado ! Eu gosta muito da Café brasil radio. MPB todo o dia! I love the sound of (especially Brazilian) Portuguese. even better when sung. But apart from songs, Italian still is my preferred language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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