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.
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.
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”