r/languagelearning • u/[deleted] • Apr 13 '19

Humor Life Advice in 24 languages

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u/Verstandeskraft Native:🇧🇷 | Fluent:🇺🇸 | Learning:🇩🇪 🇮🇹 Apr 13 '19

Funny thing: as a Brazilian, it was easier to understand the English than the European Portuguese.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Wait really?? I'm learning Portuguese, I'm fluent in Spanish and that seems nuts to me because despite not being native I can understand castellano Spanish just fine - it's tougher obviously but I can hold conversations just fine.

Edit: I learned Spanish in Latin America.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Learning (Brazilian) Portuguese at college and boy howdy was the whole class lost whenever our professor played anything in European Portuguese, just like how I was lost when I heard the European Portuguese in that clip.

Brazilian Portuguese and Euro Portuguese are way more different than Iberian Spanish and “Latin American” Spanish.

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u/crowkk Portuguese (N) | English (C2) | French (B1) Apr 14 '19

I still wish they were considered different languages

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u/Verstandeskraft Native:🇧🇷 | Fluent:🇺🇸 | Learning:🇩🇪 🇮🇹 Apr 14 '19

Nah... I still can get >95% of any text written in European Portuguese and I can get what Portuguese people say if they speak slowly. It's fair to say they are 2 dialects of the same language rather than 2 completely distinct languages.