It's still statistically significant (therefore, unlikely to be due to chance only) but shouldn't be too noticeable in a conversation. A lot! It's a lot easier for Portuguese speakers to understand Spanish than vice versa. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/ReredditLink.f7b66a91705891e84a09.css.map*/I remember as a kid watching MotoGP on TV, when they interviewed a portuguese or italian rider they didn't bother to translate what they said, it was pretty clear. I've had some written conversations with Brazilians, each of us writing in our own language, but i can't understand speech beyond a few set phrases. That should serve as a rough estimate of how many chances you … From personal experience as a native English speaker who's conversational in Spanish and has finished the Portuguese and Italian for English speakers trees, Portuguese is much more similar. I dont have much experience with Brazilian Portuguese, but from I've heard in the Internet is a bit more complicated for me to fully understand. They are similar. If I were you, I'd just learn some basic phrases. They say it is easier for Portuguese speakers to understand and speak Spanish than it is for Spanish speakers to follow Portuguese. Pretty much fine, but I grew up speaking a mix of Galician (dad) and Spanish (mom) at home, so that's probably why. 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Spanish is the second most-common native language worldwide. At least when it comes to written Portuguese, I understand like 90%. We aren't told where the Spanish speakers are from. Easy to understand if you speak spanish. Following A post I made in r/Portuguese, I wanted to know if it is easy for Spanish speakers to understand Portuguese. Portuguese is a bit difficult, and some words are too different (for example: English: biscuit, Spanish: galleta, Portuguese: Bolacha), (for example: British English: biscuit, American English: cookie, Spanish: galleta, Portuguese: Bolacha). several Brazilian friends tell me that it's easier for them to understand Spanish than Portuguese from Europe. ._3Im6OD67aKo33nql4FpSp_{border:1px solid var(--newCommunityTheme-widgetColors-sidebarWidgetBorderColor);border-radius:5px 5px 4px 4px;overflow:visible;word-wrap:break-word;background-color:var(--newCommunityTheme-body);padding:12px}.lnK0-OzG7nLFydTWuXGcY{font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.5px;line-height:12px;text-transform:uppercase;padding-bottom:4px;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-navIcon)} I did talk to some Portuguese men while I lived in Spain though, I spoke in Spanish to them and they understood all of what I said. 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I spoke in Spanish and he & she would speak Portuguese. @keyframes ibDwUVR1CAykturOgqOS5{0%{transform:rotate(0deg)}to{transform:rotate(1turn)}}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq{--sizePx:0;font-size:4px;position:relative;text-indent:-9999em;border-radius:50%;border:4px solid var(--newCommunityTheme-bodyTextAlpha20);border-left-color:var(--newCommunityTheme-body);transform:translateZ(0);animation:ibDwUVR1CAykturOgqOS5 1.1s linear infinite}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq,._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq:after{width:var(--sizePx);height:var(--sizePx)}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq:after{border-radius:50%}._3LwT7hgGcSjmJ7ng7drAuq._2qr28EeyPvBWAsPKl-KuWN{margin:0 auto} Category I languages such as Spanish and Portuguese are among the easiest ones to become proficient in. If you start a conversation with them about something moderately simple/straightforward, yeah it's easy. I found easier spoken Italian than Portuguese. Following A post I made in r/Portuguese, I wanted to know if it is easy for Spanish speakers to understand Portuguese.Of course, this varies on location and type of Portuguese (Brazillian, European) but I wanted to know your personal experience. It's funny, because it's easier for me to understand italian than portuguese, being portugal a country next to us. .LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH{fill:var(--newRedditTheme-actionIcon);height:18px;width:18px}.LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH rect{stroke:var(--newRedditTheme-metaText)}._3J2-xIxxxP9ISzeLWCOUVc{height:18px}.FyLpt0kIWG1bTDWZ8HIL1{margin-top:4px}._2ntJEAiwKXBGvxrJiqxx_2,._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{height:24px;vertical-align:middle;width:24px}._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;display:-ms-inline-flexbox;display:inline-flex;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-pack:center;justify-content:center} Not sure if this is relevant, but I've had several Brazilian friends tell me that it's easier for them to understand Spanish than Portuguese from Europe. In other words: don't jump to any funny conclusions. I can pick up on some of what UFC fighters say, but that is because they mostly recycle win/loss responses. Beyond that and bits and pieces of sympathetic speech, I get lost pretty quick. there is a seen in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk were David Bruce Banner is Guatemala and he speaks to the driver is driving a 4 wheel drive he says to the driver in Portuguese where i am i and the driver says i don't speak Portuguese in Spanish so can Spanish speakers understand Portuguese both those languages come from the Latin Language But as a brazilian, i say that i can understand spanish pretty well, except when they talk too fast. I'm Portuguese. Italian was easier to understand but has a lot of grammatical elements that are harder to understand. When I speak Portuguese with Spanish speakers, they always ask me to “speak slowly” Nor do they understand me 50% of what I say. Spain has always had somewhat decent tv programming(la 1 y la 2 were huge compared to portuguese channels back in the day and it has only gotten better from there) and being right next to Spain meant that they got to see the Spanish channels which gave them far more choice. When they all spoke Portuguese, I had a much harder time trying to understand them. by Brazilian portuguese and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. I was able to read a full Paulo Coelho book (A River flows...something) with about ten to fifteen hours of grammar practice and the assistance of a dictionary for infrequent different vocabulary words. Phonologically, Spanish and Italian are very similar, so that a Spanish speaking person could effortlessly pronounce Italian. ._1x9diBHPBP-hL1JiwUwJ5J{font-size:14px;font-weight:500;line-height:18px;color:#ff585b;padding-left:3px;padding-right:24px}._2B0OHMLKb9TXNdd9g5Ere-,._1xKxnscCn2PjBiXhorZef4{height:16px;padding-right:4px;vertical-align:top}._1LLqoNXrOsaIkMtOuTBmO5{height:20px;padding-right:8px;vertical-align:bottom}.QB2Yrr8uihZVRhvwrKuMS{height:18px;padding-right:8px;vertical-align:top}._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0{font-size:14px;font-weight:500;line-height:18px;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._1LLqoNXrOsaIkMtOuTBmO5,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._2B0OHMLKb9TXNdd9g5Ere-,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._1xKxnscCn2PjBiXhorZef4,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 .QB2Yrr8uihZVRhvwrKuMS{fill:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)} eavesdropping definitely isn't easy. 58% for Portuguese speakers and 50% for Spanish speakers. “You speak Spanish, you must understand Portuguese.” I recently received this message in a work-related request. How a speaker actually pronounces
varies widely depending on the dialect, the region of the world, and the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. But once you learn the different sounds of Portuguese, you can start to understand it pretty easily. It is interesting to note that native Spanish speakers often have trouble understanding conversational Portuguese, but native Portuguese speakers can work with conversational Spanish. A Spanish-speaker can understand from 70 to 100% of what is said, depending on the topic of conversation. But easier written Portuguese than Italian. Portuguese speakers supposedly understand Spanish a lot more easily than the other way around. Same here. For example, I speak French, and I can understand the other Romance languages that I have not studied. I can read a good portion of it. Often times, even without any previous formal training, Spanish speakers are able to understand a lot of Italian (and Portuguese, for that matter), mostly … From my limited experience it seems to me Italians understand us much better than we do them. 11 Things You'll Only Relate to If You Speak Spanish. Anyway, I find the Brazilian dialect a little bit more difficult to understand.. To me it depends on the speed they speak. As you have read before, it is supposedly much easier for those who speak these languages to learn and understand Spanish. Cookies help us deliver our Services. For me is the opposite. I think once a Spanish speaker is familiar with Portuguese pronunciation and has learned 200 or 300 of the most common words with completely different etymologies it becomes very easy to understand Portuguese. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.0f76af1b61e8e247d28f.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} It did not feel hard to read. ._1PeZajQI0Wm8P3B45yshR{fill:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._1PeZajQI0Wm8P3B45yshR._3axV0unm-cpsxoKWYwKh2x{fill:#ea0027} I'm in about the same situation as you. The phonology of Portuguese! I speak English natively and Spanish pretty well. Riot leaves friends of U.S. stunned and frightened. I communicate with Peruvians, Argentines, etc. Pretty well but I'm also a Catalan speaker, apparently mono lingual Castilian speakers have more difficulties to understand Portuguese. ._3bX7W3J0lU78fp7cayvNxx{max-width:208px;text-align:center} I've dabbled with Portuguese and have some cursory understanding of it, but I'd say that if you know/learn Portuguese, you'll understand more Spanish than a person who knows Spanish would understand of Portuguese. While the article says they didn't take into account the data from informants who had "extensive experience" with the other language, it's unclear if that could be enough to save differences caused by asymmetries in exposure between the two groups of informants. Most spaniards travel to the outside parts of Portugal(its less hours of travelling and they tend to go by car...) and they are astonished to see just how well they understand Spanish. Press J to jump to the feed. Spanish and Portuguese have the same Latin origin and as a result both their vocabularies and their grammars are very, very similar. I am a lanuage student, studying French, Italian, and German (English is my native language) and I know that because of Italian and French, I can understand a fair amount of Spanish, and I plan to learn it within the next few years. I've got some portuguese colleagues at the office and when we talk I normally speak Spanish and they normally speak Portuguese. We are the biggest Reddit community dedicated to discussing, teaching and learning Spanish. October 9, 2017 by Vivian Nunez. pretty established concensus, nothing new, that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish better than vice versa. To me, Portuguese sounds like Russian or something. I made brief explorations into Brazilian Portuguese and Italian at different times. There is a famous study showing that Portuguese speakers understand Spanish more easily than the other way around. I can understand Brazilian Portuguese but the one from Portugal I don't even realize is Portuguese! I can understand oral European Portuguese well enough, although I might need them to speak slowly and clearly. 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