Portuguese speakers do not necessarily speak Spanish (it is not the same language!). In fact, 4% of Brazil’s population is estimated to speak Spanish.

omohayek:

You are wildly exaggerating the extent to which Portuguese speakers will have difficulty understanding Spanish, especially when the Spanish speakers slow down to maximize their chances of being understood. Your personal experiences are not a sufficient basis for generalizing about the situation for the whole of Brazil: to illustrate, I too have plenty of friends and acquaintances who are native speakers of either tongue, and in not a single case has there been significant difficulty for either camp to make themselves understood to each other with a little effort. This isn't really a matter of my anecdotes versus yours, as language researchers have studied this issue in some detail. See, for example, the following link.

On the Mutual Intelligibility of Spanish and Portuguese

This reality shouldn't be surprising, as Portuguese and Spanish (or to be precise, Castilian) are part of a dialect continuum that covers the entire Iberian peninsula, and extends into France all the way to Italy (which is why I have also witnessed Italians and Spaniards conversing with each other just fine in their native languages). What that means is that if you start from anywhere in Portugal, as you proceed from village to village until you hit the Spanish border you won't see any two neighboring settlements where people have the slightest difficulty understanding each other, and this continues to be the case even when you get to southern France (as long as you stick with the native Occitan dialects).

With the Romance languages, the only ones that are true outliers are "official" Parisian French (which was heavily influenced by Dutch and Old Saxon) and Romanian (which has been isolated for over 1,000 years). All the others fade into each other gradually as you travel through Europe. To put this into the Nigerian context, Yoruba and Itsekiri may seem wildly different to non-native speakers, but for natives of either it only takes a few weeks exposure to get comfortable (here Igala is to these other "Yoruboid" languages what Parisian French is to Portuguese, Spanish and Italian).

clockwisereport:

Yes sir

naijamanyoutube:
His dad is Nigerian.


Odogwu! I hail o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDuLSkhPRWk

clockwisereport:


I don't have anyone who speaks spanish around me. I live and work in Enugu

BigDawsNet:


You can go online and subscribe for a Spanish speaker interaction


But in not sure it's free sha

Anyway... just keep learning d way u can and watch more Spanish movies

clockwisereport:


can you please recommend one for me?

BigDawsNet:


Just Google it... I'm not using any... but I know its online...

They are Spanish speakers that helps people with language and they earn from it...

Just google

Kellie069:
French and Spanish(other European languages will be much easier when u understand Spanish )I speak little French tho

naijamanyoutube:
You are the one over exaggerating. I lived in Uruguay for 6 years and I'm fluent in Spanish. I moved there when I was 18 years old. I too had to study Portuguese to understand it. And all my Uruguayan friends that never studied Portuguese don't understand jack. And these are people that have even been to Brazil on vacation. And same with my Brazilian friends and people I came across while there.

When it's written, it's easier to try to make out what it means, but when spoken, even slowly, it's hard. I communicate in Spanish and Portuguese almost everyday, and when I mistakenly switch language with the wrong person, they get lost and I'd have to repeat in the correct language.

https://blog.lingoda.com/en/what-languages-are-spoken-in-brazil/#:~:text=Spanish%20speakers%20in%20Brazil,is%20estimated%20to%20speak%20Spanish.

4% is not much.

folake4u:
French.

I wish I was serious about it back then. I learnt it way back, even had a French dictionary, and novels. But now, I can't remember anything.

naijamanyoutube:
Madam the madam! How you dey? You still dey enjoy America, abi the thing don tire you? Maybe you don find out say Naija better pass.

Nobodysboo:
Arabic it will come in handy when you go to those arab speaking countries. Because the like christians who can write and speak their language

clockwisereport:


can you please recommend one for me?

Donbisco2010:
I can always teach you

haybhi1:
Hi quaver, I'm planning on learning deutch but is it true I must have a first class in it from university to get the chance to move to Germany?

pquaver:

That i dont know. The situation at the Germany embassy right now is not known to me.. I left a long time ago.. And i no longer use embassy.. I have unrestricted entrance and exit into Nigeria and Deutschland.. So sorry but during my time it was not so yhat u must have 1st class

haybhi1:


Men, I envy you, chief. I can't hide it.🙌🙌
I hope to get it right too🤲

omohayek:

You're just stating your own personal anecdotes here, when I've already pointed out that I could do the same. Your personal experience proves nothing about the general case. Personal anecdotes are not the basis for making such sweeping judgments, only objective, peer-reviewed research can.

A blog post by a random company is hardly comparable in credibility to the peer-reviewed article I gave you a link to, an article which has actually received 127 citations. Here are more peer-reviewed articles on the subject.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790718.2017.1350185
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1183_Paper.pdf
https://ejournal.ummuba.ac.id/index.php/pbi/article/view/203

BunmiBie:


Nowhere on earth is perfect. I dey enjoy America pass nija. E no go tire me at all. I be Americana

clockwisereport:


I am interested. How do I contact you sir?

pquaver:

I wish u the best.. Secret.. Learn deutsch and u wont regret it..