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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Premiered Aug 11, 2023 ^^
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I am an American who fluently speaks Portuguese. My Spanish-speaking friends often tell me that Portuguese sounds like Spanish with a French accent. After watching your video I can see why. While Spanish and Portuguese are clearly more closely related, Portuguese does share some nasal sounds with French, not to mention a similar j sound.
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I'm french and learnt brazilian portuguese out of passion until I formally reached level C1, and let me tell you, both languages are hard but for different reasons. My take is that french is complicated in its structure. This makes things weird in your brain when you try to think in portuguese, which is more straight to the point. The order of the words in a sentence in portuguese also varies slightly when compared to french, and it can make you sound a bit awkward if you don't pay attention. Brazilian portuguese is also much more melodic and soft sounding than french, so a french speaker will have to work on the way they accentuate words so it doesn't fall flat to a brazilian ear. Other than that yes, many words are similar, and I do cheat a lot with the nasal sounds because truthfully, they're not formally similar but when spoken it's more than alright to create the illusion :p ã and an are shaking their hands in solidarity. Abraços <3
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I'm impressed: as a Frenchman who has been learning Brazilian Portuguese for several years and having spent a lot of time in Brazil at language schools, I have to say that your video is very well done!
For me, a Frenchman, I could already understand Portuguese more or less correctly by reading it, but not at all by listening to it: the pronunciation is too different.
Thank you again for this wonderful comparison. A very good job
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Once upon a time when I was a monolingual English speaker, I remember people telling me how understanding one romance/latin language could help you understand the others. I eventually learned Spanish which helped a bit with understanding Italian, but I found it barely helped at all with understanding French.
Curiously, after I learned Portuguese some time later, French soon became significantly more comprehensible to me. I still don't speak French, but thanks mainly to Portuguese (I think) I can follow quite a lot of French conversations these days, certainly much more than I would have anticipated.
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as a native french speaker, portuguese is difficult to understand in its spoken form. but when I read it, it is quite easy to understand. I also speak a bit Spanish and Italian: portuguese shares a lot more features with those 2 others romance languages than french. thank you for the video. merci 😊
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I'm Brazilian and fluent in French and I say the oral languages are definitely not mutually understandable, as my friends who don't speak french get nothing when I ask them to understand french. Also, this video is quite accurate (some details are slightly different or have regional variations) and I highly recommend it. Bravo, très bien 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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I'm a native French and Spanish speaker and I also speak a little bit of Italian. I was very surprised when I realised I could also understand Portuguese. Not all words of course but I could watch a whole TV series in brazilan Portuguese with Portuguese subtitles without much difficulty. The magic of romance languages ✨️
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I’m Canadian, I took French from Grade 3-12, plus some college conversational French classes. I used to have this Brazilian guy come to the store a lot. He would speak Portuguese to me, and I used to get about 80% of what he was saying. I have a cousin who moved to Oporto. She was fluent in a couple of years.
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This was really interesting. I'm studying Brazilian Portuguese (probably B1 or B2 level now), studied Latin, and know a (very) little French. Regarding the verbs for "to have," Portuguese does have both: haver (Latin: habere) and ter (Latin: tenere), but the use of haver has changed considerably. It now means "there is," rather than "have:" e.g. "Há um gato no quarto," akin to the French "Il y a un chat dans la chambre." But, at least in Brazilian Portuguese, ter seems to be taking over the "there is" role, too: "Tem um gato no quarto." The evolution of language is fascinating.
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I am Croatian and speak Brazilian Portuguese, also I create content in Portuguese in my channel and I wanted to comment that when I hadn't spoken any Portuguese, I had an impression that Portuguese sounds like a mixture of French and Spanish. I heard some people even say that it sounds like a mixture of French and Russian. Of course when you learn vocabulary and get used to the pronunciation, none of that seems true. I didn't like European Portuguese too much since I didn't find it "nice" hearing it but once I became fluent I find it quite normal and actually like listening to it. Greetings to all!
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19:19 I just want to add that, in portuguese, we do have an equivalent to the french word "avoir", that being "haver", which also comes from the latin "habēre". As an auxiliary verb, it has the same meaning and function, though it is usually reserved for more formal situations, especially in writing.
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I'm from Portugal and I'm learning French right now. Before that, I didn't understand spoken French and reading was difficult. Now (after 2 months of learning French) I can understand slow speech, especially with French subtitles and can express myself very basically.
It's definitely a weird romance language.
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