• Cicraft@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I can comprehend spanish (when spoken slowly), though Portuguese might as well be Arab to me

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      11 months ago

      I’m decently fluent in Spanish and Portuguese might as well be Arabic to me. The pronunciation is wildly different. Which is crazy because I can actually understand written Portuguese pretty well. Then it’s like, “Wait…how did you get those sounds from those words??”