is portuguese hard to learn for spanish speakers

Depending on who you’re talking to, you might hear any of these sounds:All this said, could you get by in Brazil just speaking Portuguese with a Spanish pronunciation? People say the Portuguese accent is strange – it is not! idk. Anything you see inside [square brackets] is written using the Here’s a quick video that gives an overview of the major ‘unexpected’ differences in Portuguese:Perhaps you’ve noticed that Portuguese speakers tend to pronounce the letter The best way I’ve found to describe how to make the nasal sound is this: Say the English word “bringing” and notice how when you say “ng” your soft palate in the back of your mouth closes off. Plus, we share many everyday expressions that we easily understand among ourselves, that no other romance speakers share. ?Thanks for a lot of great information. I'm presuming here that you already have a fluent level of Spanish. Portuguese truly is the brother language of Spanish. For example, personal pronouns are used differently in Brazil than in Portugal, Spain, or the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America. (And what a shame, and how UNBELIEVABLE, that the native speakers recording the lessons never told anyone at Pimsleur that, “Hey, we would never say that” – and refuse to take part in this misleading project. Each lesson contains a Portuguese dialogue that has been translated into both Spanish and English, and you will hear two Brazilians and a Venezuelan readings th… In European Portuguese, Brazilians, however, tend to be much more relaxed when it comes to formalities, so the usual There is actually one other, very formal, way to say “you” in Portuguese, and that is using 1. ), but mostly by older people. Spanish speakers come to Portuguese with great strengths and unique challenges that call for a specialized approach to learning. One of the members didn’t need his Pimsleur course any more so gave it to me. Okay, if lots of hand gestures are used (Italians are annoyingly good at this), and if both parties speak very, very slowly, they might be able to have a very basic, short conversation….everything else gets muddles very quickly. They are developed at the University of Texas especially for Spanish speakers: Then you can begin to learn the major differences in grammar. To figure out how you would make the plural, just take the Spanish cognate, eliminate the letter “n”, and see how it would be pluralized in Spanish and take it from there. I’m just getting started on Brazilian Portuguese, so this has been really useful for me.oh thank God for this. What a shame that, in spite of the Pimsleur METHOD, the material is wrong. Remember, you can find 90% or more of Spanish words in the Portuguese dictionary and vice-versa. There are people from certain parts of Portugal who almost sound like they are speaking Spanish. “Pretty much anywhere you would use haber in Spanish, you can use ter (tengar, to have) in Brazilian Portuguese”Thinking it’s a word I don’t know, I looked up ‘tengar’ in several Portuguese dictionaries to no avail, until I realized that maybe it’s supposed to be ‘tener’ in Spanish?Good catch on tener – I read right over the top of that.Muito obrigada Lauren pelo trabalho e tudo compartido. )The course is not totally off. It has made a huge difference. So many details, so well explained. And the odd word that differs has a predictable cognate in either language.

Don’t worry! They have put up with my complete ineptness at a French meetup group that I joined.

If you want to know more about these differences, I encourage you to check out the Tá Falado podcasts. I’m so happy I could find a resource that used IPA!This is a fantastic list — thank you so much for publishing it! The temptation is to simply use the Spanish word-order in the construction of phrases and to drop in Spanish words with a slight Portuguese accent. Plus, we share a large Arabic inventory of vocabulary as well. I got half way through the lesson then pulled the CD out in disgust and took it back to the library. For most native English speakers, Spanish is slightly easier to learn than Portuguese. Let’s look at each one of these in more detail.#2. Once you notice what’s going on you can actually practice opening and closing your soft palate by saying “ng” over and over. Again, I respect you’re opinion but certainly don’t relate or agree.I agree with Julio I am a native spanish speaker and I can get far in a conversation with my Brazilian friends. However, if you give it another shot, they eventually do switch to você, I think toward the end of Series I. On paper both languages are almost identical to each other. The Pimsleur course, incidentally, was specifically titled “Brazilian Portuguese”. Tip: Since Spanish is so similar to Portuguese, if you want to learn both, the best way to avoid mixing the two is to achieve a very comfortable level in Spanish first (unless you go for Portuguese first, in which case you can do it the other way around).

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