Written portuguese is fairly easy to read for me. Every now and then I’ll respond to brazilians in spanish when they have a funny meme and they’ll write back in portuguese. Yay mutual intelligibility.
Spoken portuguese is damn near impossible for me to understand. I know a few phrases and words because my buddy is fluent and says them every now and then but the language sounds like spanish while holding marbles in your mouth. I will say that spanish also sounded unintelligible to me before i learned to speak it so maybe I just need to go live in Rio de Janeiro.
As a Portuguese we usually understand our neighbors from Spain, like they speak spanish and we can kinda more or less understand some meaning even without knowing the language, for example when traveling there, but if we talk portuguese to them their brain shuts down, they are not able to understand anything we say.
Written portuguese is fairly easy to read for me. Every now and then I’ll respond to brazilians in spanish when they have a funny meme and they’ll write back in portuguese. Yay mutual intelligibility.
Spoken portuguese is damn near impossible for me to understand. I know a few phrases and words because my buddy is fluent and says them every now and then but the language sounds like spanish while holding marbles in your mouth. I will say that spanish also sounded unintelligible to me before i learned to speak it so maybe I just need to go live in Rio de Janeiro.
As a Portuguese we usually understand our neighbors from Spain, like they speak spanish and we can kinda more or less understand some meaning even without knowing the language, for example when traveling there, but if we talk portuguese to them their brain shuts down, they are not able to understand anything we say.