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4. Interesting question, but I can't help here. Portuguese is one of two western Romance laguages I DON'T speak
Tue Jun 11, 2024, 09:44 PM
Jun 2024

I was just down there last month, too. The few words of Portuguese I do know, I learned from Brazilians, which people in Portugal pick up on immediately. That is the reverse from my Spanish, which I learned in Spain, and Latin Americans pick up on that instantly as well. But i don't know enough Portuguese to help with the intricacies. I know French, Spanish, Catalan and Italian, so I understand far more more Portuguese than I speak. I don't speak Romansch, either, and I'm pretty much lost with Romanian, which evolved in a bubble away from the western Romance languages. Romanian has little Russian and Turkish incursions that the others don't have.

I heard Navajo is another galaxy altogether, linguistically, as are all languages native to the Western Hemisphere, but if you know Magyarul, you've already been to a galaxy far, far away, nem igaz? Europe has its exotics tucked away here and there, such as Suomea (Finnish) and Euskera (Basque).

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