TET: Such Revival. Much Thread. So about time. Wow.

[Farnhamia]

Right, as in ...

Olha que coisa mais linda
Mais cheia de graça
É ela menina
Que vem e que passa
Num doce balanço
A caminho do mar.

You use Portuguese terms here and there.

Any reason in particular? e.e

I don't, Vinicius de Moraes does. And the song is 50 years old, too.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Brazilian Portuguese.

I thought it might be Spanish. I have no idea what the difference between the two is.

e > i
o > u
a > schwa
/R/ > [R ~ x ~ h]
Phonemic s vs. z vs. x (sh) vs. j (zh)
Phonemic b vs. v

Among others.

But yeah, written it is more mutually intelligible than many of our internal dialects when spoken.

[Liberonscien]

I thought it might be Spanish. I have no idea what the difference between the two is.

Nah, it isn't. It's Portuguese. :]

Alright. I still don't know the difference but I'll go to Google translate and translate stuff from English into both languages so I can be able to tell the difference better and not be an ignorant American.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

I don't, Vinicius de Moraes does. And the song is 50 years old, too.

Farn, it's ok that I might be not all that old, but I have culture enough to know this.

I'm saying in general. You used "o seu marido" for Nana earlier on. And she's a Spaniard.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

I thought it might be Spanish. I have no idea what the difference between the two is.

e > i
o > u
a > schwa
/R/ > [R ~ x ~ h]
Phonemic s vs. z vs. x (sh) vs. j (zh)
Phonemic b vs. v

Among others.

But yeah, written it is more mutually intelligible than many of our internal dialects when spoken.

I've heard several words you guys use in Portuguese taken into Latin American Spanish as well

It's interesting how both languages are intelligible enough between each other written though.

[Farnhamia]

I don't, Vinicius de Moraes does. And the song is 50 years old, too.

Farn, it's ok that I might be not all that old, but I have culture enough to know this.

I'm saying in general. You used "o seu marido" for Nana earlier on. And she's a Spaniard.

That's Galician, which I always thought Nanatsu was.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Nah, it isn't. It's Portuguese. :]

Alright. I still don't know the difference but I'll go to Google translate and translate stuff from English into both languages so I can be able to tell the difference better and not be an ignorant American.

Don't feel bad, the similarities and differences are confusing even for us natives.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Nah, it isn't. It's Portuguese. :]

Alright. I still don't know the difference but I'll go to Google translate and translate stuff from English into both languages so I can be able to tell the difference better and not be an ignorant American.

Pronunciations, accents, grammar, spelling, countries that speak it, language groups...

Lemme see if I can show you.

Queso is cheese in Spanish
Queijo is cheese in Portuguese
Chica is girl in Spanish
Menina is girl in Portuguese

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Farn, it's ok that I might be not all that old, but I have culture enough to know this.

I'm saying in general. You used "o seu marido" for Nana earlier on. And she's a Spaniard.

That's Galician, which I always thought Nanatsu was.

Asturian, with Catalan family. But close enough.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Farn, it's ok that I might be not all that old, but I have culture enough to know this.

I'm saying in general. You used "o seu marido" for Nana earlier on. And she's a Spaniard.

That's Galician, which I always thought Nanatsu was.

Oh, no. I'm Asturian. But Asturian and Galego have a few similarities.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

That's Galician, which I always thought Nanatsu was.

Asturian, with Catalan family. But close enough.

Os Asturianes e los galegos som primos.

[Liberonscien]

Alright. I still don't know the difference but I'll go to Google translate and translate stuff from English into both languages so I can be able to tell the difference better and not be an ignorant American.

Pronunciations, accents, grammar, spelling, countries that speak it, language groups...

Lemme see if I can show you.

Queso is cheese in Spanish
Queijo is cheese in Portuguese
Chica is girl in Spanish
Menina is girl in Portuguese

Still don't really get it. Seems to have same kind of syntax. I mean a at the end for feminine for example.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Asturian, with Catalan family. But close enough.

Os Asturianes e los galegos som primos.

So you'd be... our second degree cousins?

[Farnhamia]

That's Galician, which I always thought Nanatsu was.

Asturian, with Catalan family. But close enough.

close enough, indeed. Like most of us Long-Lifes, it's hard to tell.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Asturian, with Catalan family. But close enough.

Os Asturianes e los galegos som primos.

Me gustaria aprender Asturiano

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Still don't really get it. Seems to have same kind of syntax. I mean a at the end for feminine for example.

They are ridiculously similar.

89% of lexicon and >95% of grammar.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Pronunciations, accents, grammar, spelling, countries that speak it, language groups...

Lemme see if I can show you.

Queso is cheese in Spanish
Queijo is cheese in Portuguese
Chica is girl in Spanish
Menina is girl in Portuguese

Still don't really get it. Seems to have same kind of syntax. I mean a at the end for feminine for example.

It's because Portuguese belongs to the family of Romance languages. It follows that it has a similar syntax structure and grammar rules like the others.

[Farnhamia]

Pronunciations, accents, grammar, spelling, countries that speak it, language groups...

Lemme see if I can show you.

Queso is cheese in Spanish
Queijo is cheese in Portuguese
Chica is girl in Spanish
Menina is girl in Portuguese

Still don't really get it. Seems to have same kind of syntax. I mean a at the end for feminine for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... nd_Spanish

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Os Asturianes e los galegos som primos.

So you'd be... our second degree cousins?

In a manner.

[Liberonscien]

Still don't really get it. Seems to have same kind of syntax. I mean a at the end for feminine for example.

They are ridiculously similar.

89% of lexicon and >95% of grammar.

Does this mean that if I, hypothetically speaking, was barely passing a Spanish class I would be able to, again barely, pass a Portuguese class? Or have I completely missed the target?

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Pronunciations, accents, grammar, spelling, countries that speak it, language groups...

Lemme see if I can show you.

Queso is cheese in Spanish
Queijo is cheese in Portuguese
Chica is girl in Spanish
Menina is girl in Portuguese

Still don't really get it. Seems to have same kind of syntax. I mean a at the end for feminine for example.

http://www.reginacoeli.com/blog/the-dif ... guese.html <--- that may help.

[Torisakia]

I live by the quote in my sig. It just so heavily relates to me somehow.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

It's because Portuguese belongs to the family of Romance languages. It follows that it has a similar syntax structure and grammar rules like the others.

Actually West Iberian (Galician, Portuguese, Uruguayan portunhol, Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, Extremaduran, Cantabrian, Spanish and Judaeo-Spanish) is arguably a single language, and we all speak co-dialects.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

They are ridiculously similar.

89% of lexicon and >95% of grammar.

Does this mean that if I, hypothetically speaking, was barely passing a Spanish class I would be able to, again barely, pass a Portuguese class? Or have I completely missed the target?

Missed the target.

Although it's true that Spanish and Portuguese are similar in some aspects, they differ in many other things. A Spanish speaker won't necessarily understand Portuguese, just like a Portuguese speaker won't necessarily understand Spanish.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

Does this mean that if I, hypothetically speaking, was barely passing a Spanish class I would be able to, again barely, pass a Portuguese class? Or have I completely missed the target?

Reading? Certainly so, with cultural exposition.

Writing? Most likely no.

Listening/speaking? Never. Ever ever. The reverse would be "most likely no", though.