- cross-posted to:
- linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
Tell the monolinguals about your experience 
A lot more of you should be learning Arabic smdh 
Tell the monolinguals about your experience
A lot more of you should be learning Arabic smdh
Spanish- Primary language
English- Also Primary and taught it from a young age
Portuguese- 8 years. I speak it somewhat fluently. It was a little easier to pick up with it being a Latin language. Occasionally I’ll find myself slipping into Spanish in order to fill the holes.
Mandarin- 10 years of learning and speak it fluently with very good pronunciation. My writing is the complete opposite and is pretty pitiful to look at.
How is Portugues, from a phonology standpoint, hard to pronounce or just a bit challenging…?
Not too bad coming off of Spanish. It might be harder for someone who doesn’t have their native languages being of Latin origin. I hear Anglos struggle with European Portuguese more.
Does your dialect come from Peninsular Spain or from Latin America and so forth?
The reason why I say this, is because Euro-Portuges apparently sounds slavic… perhaps like Polska
Latin America, Guatemala in particular. I’m from a part of the country that’s more “rednecky” so we sometimes shorten things like saying “si seño”