Is Brazilian very similar to mainstream Spanish?
Like if a non native speaker learned Spanish through classes or immersion in culture, could they communicate easily in your original language?
Or are the differences so wide that the person would actually have to learn Brazilian.(I figure this applies but not sure).
I’m not really familiar so I felt prudent to ask.
Actually I think they speak Portuguese in Brazil, not sure how much difference there is between that and Spanish. As I don’t speak either language, only language I know is English.
@U.N. Owner
We speak Portuguese in Brazil, not Spanish. It’s a common misconception. The languages are very similar and we can easily communicate with each other with very little difficulty. The languages both come heavily from the Latin (if you look at the map Spain and Portugal are neighbors) and basically went through very similar modifications (conquests/migrations/etc) resulting in two very similar languages.
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Baal_Zebub,
Is Brazilian very similar to mainstream Spanish?
Like if a non native speaker learned Spanish through classes or immersion in culture, could they communicate easily in your original language?
Or are the differences so wide that the person would actually have to learn Brazilian.(I figure this applies but not sure).
I’m not really familiar so I felt prudent to ask.
Actually I think they speak Portuguese in Brazil, not sure how much difference there is between that and Spanish. As I don’t speak either language, only language I know is English.
@U.N. Owner
We speak Portuguese in Brazil, not Spanish. It’s a common misconception. The languages are very similar and we can easily communicate with each other with very little difficulty. The languages both come heavily from the Latin (if you look at the map Spain and Portugal are neighbors) and basically went through very similar modifications (conquests/migrations/etc) resulting in two very similar languages.