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minus-squarefibojolylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoPortuguese is like catalan which is like occitan (southern French). If you know one of the Latin languages, Portuguese shouldn’t be too hard, really.
minus-squarelars@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days ago Portuguese shouldn’t be too hard, really To read? Absolutely. To understand, even though I speak some other Romance languages? Just no.
minus-squarefibojolylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoAh 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!
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoJust learn 3-4 latin languages, and latin ofc and you should be ready to go
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.
To read? Absolutely. To understand, even though I speak some other Romance languages? Just no.
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!
Just learn 3-4 latin languages, and latin ofc and you should be ready to go