• fibojoly
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    5 days ago

    Portuguese is like catalan which is like occitan (southern French). If you know one of the Latin languages, Portuguese shouldn’t be too hard, really.

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      Portuguese shouldn’t be too hard, really

      To read? Absolutely. To understand, even though I speak some other Romance languages? Just no.

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        5 days ago

        Ah yeah that’s fair enough. But then again that’s true of all the languages I’ve learnt.

        Learning spoken English with the BBC accent and then landing in Ireland and dealing with all the local accents… that was some craic alright!