The colombian singer Shakira is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Catalan. She has some knowledge in Italian and French🌟 POLYGLOT CELEBRITIES PLAY...
Native speakers of a romance language are already at “occasionally pick out a word or two when watching the news” level or better for other romance languages, without having to study them at all. They simply share a lot of words amongst themselves. Becoming decently conversational in a few months is not an exaggeration.
Yeah. As a speaker of Spanish and Galician, I basically know Portuguese from the get go. I’d still need to learn some vocabulary, and the syntax and grammar won’t be 100% what I think, but I can understand Portuguese and be understood in Portugal (which came in handy when I went to see Tool at Lisboa :P).
Native speakers of a romance language are already at “occasionally pick out a word or two when watching the news” level or better for other romance languages, without having to study them at all. They simply share a lot of words amongst themselves. Becoming decently conversational in a few months is not an exaggeration.
Yeah. As a speaker of Spanish and Galician, I basically know Portuguese from the get go. I’d still need to learn some vocabulary, and the syntax and grammar won’t be 100% what I think, but I can understand Portuguese and be understood in Portugal (which came in handy when I went to see Tool at Lisboa :P).