Comments on: Should I study Spanish or Portuguese?

By: leire

leire — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

i’m spanish and i can understand a portuguese person. if i don’t be wrong, theportuguese is from the galician-portuguese(a dialect of the spanish). the both languages are very similar like all the romanic languages. the portuguese was a dialect of the latin that changed. the spanish was the same. so you can stand a portuguese if you speak spanish and vice versa.

By: Tonia!

Tonia! — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

I am somebody who can be deemed as fluent in Spanish since I speak the language quite well.
Yesterday, I decided that I would start learning Portuguese aswell and have already started using various websites to aid me. I would suggest that you learn Spanish first because in my opinion (not necessarily true), I think that it can be deemed as the ‘centre language’ to all romance languages since once you know it, you’d be able to understand and possibly read others, including Portuguese quite well.
Also, with Spanish and Portugese, there are many linguistic links so it shouldn’t be much of a problem in learning the two.

Hope that helped!

By: Fromafar

Fromafar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

There is no technical reason why it would be easier or harder to study one before the other. Portuguese speaking people tend to understand Spanish more than the other way around because they are forced to more frequently since they are outnumbered. Spanish speaking people might never have to deal with Portuguese speaking people or Portuguese literature. That is not so for Portuguese speaking people.

By: refugiotrans

refugiotrans — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

You heard wrong. A Spanish-speaking person can certainly understand Portuguese!

Spanish is not only more widely spoken than Portuguese, but it is also more of a core language for learning other romance languages such as French and Italian.

By: V for Vendetta ♪

V for Vendetta ♪ — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

Spanish would be much more effeciant with regards to your career, however, portuguese might sound more romantic.!

By: PartyAnimal21

PartyAnimal21 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

I think that you should speak Portuguese becuause there are alot of ppl that know spanish so they got you covered. Portuguese sounds rlly cool anyways!!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

If learning a language is easy for you it probably makes no big difference which of these you learn first. I suggest, from reading the answers, that it boils down to what you feel like doing.

Since you plan to do both, start with the language that has the most verb forms.

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By: short2stuff1922

short2stuff1922 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

Spanish is mostly used in many parts of the world than Portugese. I suggest Spanish it is easier.

By: Haruka

Haruka — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

umm NO, im spanish and i can understand portuguese very well really, and i dont speak it
learn spanish, only cuz its mostly spoken than portuguese, honestly

By: Metaller_boy

Metaller_boy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:57 +0000

You could study both, but Spanish is more important because in America has more native Spanish speaker than native Portuguese speaker…