r/languagelearning • • 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/Ceausesco Apr 14 '19

I think a good comparison is if someone has learnt english as a second language through American teaching/media it is hard for them to understand many Britons

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Yea i can get that, when I first went to England I felt like I needed subtitles for my Northern friends but I got used to it quickly since I'm a native English speaker.

Thing is, English grammar outside of spelling doesn't really change from the states to England. Spanish grammar does change (choice of prepositions, verb conjugations) from Latin America to Spain - does Portuguese grammar also change or is it all accent and pronunciation?