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- linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
Tell the monolinguals about your experience 
A lot more of you should be learning Arabic smdh 
Tell the monolinguals about your experience
A lot more of you should be learning Arabic smdh
Spanish- Primary language
English- Also Primary and taught it from a young age
Portuguese- 8 years. I speak it somewhat fluently. It was a little easier to pick up with it being a Latin language. Occasionally I’ll find myself slipping into Spanish in order to fill the holes.
Mandarin- 10 years of learning and speak it fluently with very good pronunciation. My writing is the complete opposite and is pretty pitiful to look at.
How is Portugues, from a phonology standpoint, hard to pronounce or just a bit challenging…?
Not too bad coming off of Spanish. It might be harder for someone who doesn’t have their native languages being of Latin origin. I hear Anglos struggle with European Portuguese more.
Does your dialect come from Peninsular Spain or from Latin America and so forth?
The reason why I say this, is because Euro-Portuges apparently sounds slavic… perhaps like Polska
Latin America, Guatemala in particular. I’m from a part of the country that’s more “rednecky” so we sometimes shorten things like saying “si seño”
Portuguese native here. Overall, portuguese is difficult and very challenging, because we have a tons of verbs and the past, present and future of verbs, has different and unique ways to say/write correctly. Is very common for a foreigns express with some errors , and mostly says the verbs on infinitive. But we understand them without any problem.
And yeah, spanish and portuguese is kinda similar, its natural some people joins both. Our national football coach is spanish and we see how he try to speak portuguese, but sometimes he join both languages.