Why you should learn Portuguese instead of Spanish?
Portuguese helps you learn Spanish and other Romantic languages. The words don’t always look or sound exactly the same in Portuguese and Spanish. Still, if you dedicate yourself to studying Portuguese your hard work will also go along way to help you learn Spanish. The two languages also have similar grammar systems.
Is Portuguese easy to learn if you speak Spanish?
Spanish gives you an enormous boost to learn Portuguese. I have studied many different languages. Learning Portuguese while knowing Spanish has been by far the easiest and the most rewarding learning experience ever.
Is Spanish more popular than Portuguese?
There are an estimated 200-210 million speakers of Portuguese, which puts it firmly in the world’s top ten languages. Numbers suggest utility but, the trouble is, while Portuguese is big Spanish is over two times bigger (400 million native speakers and counting).
Do Portuguese people learn Spanish?
Most Portuguese that can indeed speak Spanish is because they studied it. But then this is not different with people from elsewhere. Learning Spanish is not very popular in Portugal and school curricula has Portuguese as first language, English as second and then the most popular third languages are French and German.
How does Portuguese differ from Spanish?
Portuguese has a lot of slurred sounds and a very fluid language, unlike Spanish. In Spanish, words are more deliberate. Spanish has 5 vowel sounds, while Portuguese is leading with 9. The vowels with a nasal sound don’t found in Spanish.
Do you speak Spanish or Portuguese in Spanish?
| do | hacer |
|---|---|
| speak | hablar |
| Spanish | el español |
| or | o |
| Portuguese | el portugués |
Is Portuguese harder to learn than Spanish?
For most native English speakers, Spanish is slightly easier to learn than Portuguese. This is primarily a matter of access. Since Spanish is spoken by over 400 million people worldwide (compared to just over 200 million for Portuguese), it’s easier to find Spanish resources and media for learning or practising.
Is Portuguese and Spanish language the same?
Portuguese and Spanish share an 89\% lexical similarity, meaning that there are equivalent forms of words in both languages. The same goes for polvo which means dust in Spanish but octopus in Portuguese. The written forms of Portuguese and Spanish are extremely similar.