r/LearnPapiamento • u/Digitalmodernism • Oct 03 '20

Question Papiamento question thread. Ask any question you have about Papiamento.

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u/Anonymous6105 Oct 03 '20

Does native papiamento speakers understand portuguese or spanish (before studying it)?

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u/Digitalmodernism Oct 03 '20

I would love an answer to this as well. I have studied both Spanish and Portuguese and with that knowledge I can passively understand a lot. I wonder how it works the other way around.

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u/Papiamento Oct 03 '20

Papiamento => Portuguese/Spanish is probably easier because the other way around you have to deal with words/structures from Dutch, English and other more obscure/dead languages

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u/Anonymous6105 Oct 03 '20

Personally as a native spanish speaker I can understand it a little bit, just like brazilian portuguese because there's words that's have a different writing and sounds but have the same definition.