Can A Spanish Speaker Understand Portuguese?  

roxo got me 😞

As a Brazilian, Elysse speaks Portuguese very well 👏😯

MOST IMPRESSIVE. I really thought she was brazilian. She had to say she was American and I STILL was thinking "ok, born in the US but brazilian family"... and then "ok, at least ONE brazilian parent ". When she said she learned Portuguese because of a boyfriend with brazilian parents, I couldn´t believe. That is probably the best accent I ever heard from a foreigner.

I’ve learned the basics of Portuguese so I can basically understand it by reading since I already know Spanish.

Essa moça fala um português SUPER PERFEITO SEM SOTAQUE. Isso é incríivel para quem fala tantas línguas !

Barata/barato also means cheap in portuguese

My favorite gigachad and gigachadette communicating in my favorite languages 😊 I love this so much.

I'm Brazilian, congratulations. You pronounce the words very well. And the girl has a really cool accent, it's a bit reminiscent of a Northeastern and Rio accent, she has a cute way of pronouncing words.

O português dela é muito bom,como uma brasileira nativa.

The amount of languages she speaks is very impressive! Well done!

Hablo español y estoy aprendiendo portugués. Toma tiempo para acostumbrarse al portugués, pero es un idioma muy lindo.

YOOO I love Elysse’s videos! Very inspiring language learner :) glad you guys could make a video together

ela é mto inteligente e tem o sotaque perfeito, muito foda

Elisse é a minha poliglota favorita, ela me inspira muito ( Elisse is my favorite polyglot, she inspires me a lot.)

Elysse é uma pessoa na verdade inteligente e com muito talento. Além disso, tem um sotaque muito natural. É admiravel!

Great video! Because I speak both, it's cool seeing the differences firsthand. I also love how there are some rules that you can use to translate one language to the other (e.g. ll = ch). In my opinion, Caribbean spanish, like Puerto Rican spanish, sounds very similar to Brazilian Portuguese. Great job on understanding, Nate!

0:32 i love how his accent sounds chilango (from central mexico) but he said “un buen” which is an expression from northern mexico 😭

6:42 In Spanish the word cheap has the As with the same opening and almost the same time, /baˈɾata/ In Portuguese the second A is longer and the last one is much weaker and closed. /ba'ɾa:tɐ/ or /ba'ra:tə/

Neat video, Nate! You should do Galician next!

Elysse is a monster, so perfect portuguese

Love this collab

Cadeira can also be hip but I've only heard old people saying it (and depending on the accent, it is pronounced as cadera, like in my region) and Barata can also mean cheap in the femenine form (btw in catalan they say cadira for chair so it is close to the portuguese word)

the only mistake I saw on her pronunciation was 'róxo' istead of 'rôxo'. She speaks brazilian portuguese very well, with very little accent

your nasal sounds are so good Ely!!

Omg what is this crossover 😮😍

"Asymmetrical Intelligibility" 4:00 All words are rooted in Latin in that one, so in Portuguese "Inteligibilidade Assimétrica" works just fine

Los hispanohablantes entendemos mal el portugués solo la primera semana, luego el cerebro se acostumbra a las trece vocales y a esas consonantes que no sabes de donde vienen y ya se entiende; y la comunicación es simétrica.

Meu Deus como fala bem

5:50 For "false friend" words we use "false cognate" in Portuguese "falso cognato"... cognição é o ato de assimilar uma informação / pensar. "Cogito, ergo sum" = "penso, logo sou" = (original) "Je pense, donc je suis".

Short answer, yes. I was conversational within 6 weeks as a native Spanish speaker learning Brazilian Portuguese. I mainly focused on what was different, what was the same, and binge watched Brazilian shows on Netflix the entire time. I use Italki tutors to polish it up and work on pronunciation, other than working on that I can maintain a conversation on a variety of topics for an hour long class.

aqui en sudamerica tambien se dice barata a las cucarachas. de hecho recuerdo que toda mi juventud pense que en mi pais no habian cucarachas porque no me habia dado cuenta que era el mismo animal que las baratas pero con otro nombre.

Elysse fala português muito bem.

Cadeira also might refer to hips, there's even a brazilian song from the 90's that says "mexe a cadeira" as in "move your hips".

Como BR, muitas coisas me surpreenderam nesse vídeo: * O português dela é muito bom! Tem um sotaque bem de leve e bem fofo! * Os dois terem concordado que o português do Brasil é mais fácil de entender. (Na verdade, eu já achava isso, mas num vídeo sobre línguas românicas, li comentários de vários portugueses afirmando que o PT-PT é melhor compreendido por falantes de outras línguas presentes no vídeo) * Ele ter entendido 90-95% do que ela disse. Esperava que fosse entender bem menos (por essa razão: 3:44).

barata também é cheap.Cadeira também é hip.

Him: Eu gosto Roberto Carlos Me: Yeah! What an incredible footballer he was!

E incrível o português dela ela pronunciar as palavras no tempo certo no ritmo do português.

Nate, tu acento ha cambiado un buen! Ya hablas mas como un defeño!

Mds ela fala muito bem!!

O brasileiro é um idioma lindo

Brasil 🇧🇷 ❤

Another false friend is "borracheiro", which has nothing to do with drunkenness. In Brazil I saw an article about um borracheiro cego: a blind tire changer. I use "sotaque" in Latin, as "sautāx, sautācis".

Brazilian Portuguese sounds to me like if a Russian learned Spanish

For a second, I thought the guy was Homelander.

Very fun and interesting video… “exquisite” 😅

Nate might be able to understand a lot of Brazilian Portuguese, but European Portuguese would be a whole different kettle of fish. I think a comparison would be someone speaking standard American who tries to understand someone speaking Glaswegian, the accent from Glasgow. Brazilians who arrive here in Portugal get quite a shock when they encounter European Portuguese.

Of course, not only portugués also Italian.

CROSSOVER!!!!

barata can mean cheap too. Essa calça é barata = this pant is cheap. it can also mean cockroach, but it sounds exactly the same. Yes, im brasilian.

It`s hard to find someone speaking portuguese so well, only in a few moments I could notice she isn`t native

ahora intentalo pero comparando español con italiano 😳

I thought she was brazilian. As a brazilian myself I can say that she has barely any accent. Wow

BARATA ALSO CAN BE USED FOR CHEAP STUFFS, LIKE "ESTA CALÇA É BARATA"

Oi Nate !!! parabéns pelo vídeo !!!

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Achei que ela fosse brasileira no início do vídeo. Português perfeito 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Fala até turco 😳 E o rapaz, eu não entendi, ele é americano ou mexicano? Ou de algum outro país? Tem nome inglês, mas fala espanhol com outra pessoa que é dos EUA...

Didn't Elysse say in her last video that she is ashamed to be an American.

I thought that she was caipira from São Paulo interior or Minas Gerais lol

Venham todos pro Brasil precisamos de imigrantes temos milhões de postos de trabalho e temos muita água limpa e muita comida todos são bem-vindos no Brasil 🇧🇷

esquisito (pt) = raro (es) raro (pt) = rare (en)

I thought she was Brazilian from the thumbnail🤌

"Barata" também pode ser o feminino de barato.

Como tu consegues entender quase 95% do português falado e os nativos do espanhol não entendem nem 10%?

Português 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Mais fácil lusofalante entender espanhol que o oposto

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The intelligibility between Portuguese and Spanish is generally high due to the linguistic similarities between the two languages, both derived from Vulgar Latin. Reading between these languages has an intelligibility of about 85-90%, while auditory comprehension and speaking are around 50-60% due to differences in pronunciation and intonation. Among the dialects of Spain, Galician is the closest to Portuguese, with an intelligibility of 90-95%, followed by Astur-Leonese (60-70%) and some western Castilian dialects (50-60%). These similarities facilitate mutual understanding, especially in reading. De nada ☺️

"Começando >DESDE< zero" foi portunhol :P Mas deu pra entender, ela fala muito bem.

Hay mucha más diferencia entre el portugués de Portugal y el de Brasil que entre los dialectos del castellano. Yo entiendo el Brasileño muy bien. También puedo entender el Portugués pero me cuesta más. Pero eso porque yo tengo dos lenguas nativas más (catalán y gallego).

En mi opinión, el español es más hablado y útil 🇪🇸😊.

Why the us flag for English language? It’s from ENGLAND ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Quero saber se essa Americana me ajuda a "trocar o óleo"hahaha

Mas eu posso também dizer: essa camisa é barata! This T-Shirt is cheap!

I have lost my ability to tell the difference between the majority languages of the Americas. They all now sound the same to me. I am riding down the street yelling Buenas Tardes, Good After Noon, Bonsoir, Buon pomeriggio, Bona dies. Pass a Haitiana, pass an Americano, yesterday I passed a Mexicana in an Italia shirt. I turned my bike around. I said I am playing this song for you. I was playing a song from a famous retro 90's Italian band. I put the phone playing the song directly in her face. She did not understand a word she thought and said. But if she had listened to the song for five minutes on repeat she would have understood 80 percent of the song. I always read to Mexicans in different European languages. Each time they say I do not know what that means. Then when I tell them they say, and say truthfully, 'that is what I felt they said" The Indo European languages are so similar that an untrained ear can figure out what is been said. Most people think that Indo European are different languages and not just regional dialects...So we think that Portuguese is different from Spanish, as in this case when they are not different. Remember, around 1569 Iberia was one confederate. They confederated without making any linguistic changes whatsoever. All of the great Spanish writers, Jose Luis Borges for example, use all of the language spoken in the Americas in their writing. In Cartas de Mamå Júlio Cortázar, argentino sets the story in Paris. The Protagonists are watching the old cartoon Tom and Jerry. Cortázar used French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish to weave the tale. He has never said in any interviews and never wrote that he was writing beyond the grasp of the reader. I do not have any friends who are not at least bilingual. 86 percent of people on earth are at least bilingual. The problem with people who live in the United States is they think the majority of speakers are monolingual. But again on RU-vid monolingual Americans who want to learn another European dialect think it takes intelligence to be a polygot. One never sees a RU-vid of anyone who lives outside of the US claim that language learning is difficult and requires brain power. It may require the cranial capacity and vocal organs that crows, whales, dol·phins, and humans have but it does not require more than that. Language is instinctive. To use it in all circumstances does take forethought. Go to any linguistic border in the world and you find that everyone is multilingual.

Not the mexican and brazilian flags 😭😭💀💀💀

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Barata has 2 meanings: the same as in spanish and what she said

Brazilian Portuguese, not PORTUGUESE, also, change the flag.

Fala português melhor do que nós brasileiros

3:41 mexicana branca? A maioria é indígenas