• @Haraknos@jlai.lu
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    25 days ago

    Can I ask what you think of portuguese pronunciation? I can read it but its not possible for me to understand it when spoken… In comparison I learned spanish at school and it was the easiest langage to learn thanks to my french.

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 days ago

      I’m not a speaker of any Romance language, but Portuguese does sound kinda Slavic to me for some reason. That part of the Eastern European Portugal meme checks out.

    • teft
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      35 days ago

      Written portuguese is fairly easy to read for me. Every now and then I’ll respond to brazilians in spanish when they have a funny meme and they’ll write back in portuguese. Yay mutual intelligibility.

      Spoken portuguese is damn near impossible for me to understand. I know a few phrases and words because my buddy is fluent and says them every now and then but the language sounds like spanish while holding marbles in your mouth. I will say that spanish also sounded unintelligible to me before i learned to speak it so maybe I just need to go live in Rio de Janeiro.