Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Its alright, then I interpreted it wrong. . . but honestly, I dont think I am. I wanna learn german, french if given the chance and Arabic in terms of understanding. . .
can you speak any of these languages?

Worth learning? Any resources for Brazilian Portuguese?

As I'd love to learn the language of Brazil!

Definitely worth learning!

I believe the only reason people don't learn Portuguese compared to other languages is the lack of resources, though I've found a few online.

These are the resources I have used/use to make sure I remain a polyglot.

European Portuguese is very similar to Brazilian Portuguese. I'd say that the main difference is grammar as there are quite a few disagreements on what is/isn't grammatically correct. We can still understand each other quite easily understand each other even if it takes a little inferring.

In my opinion Brazilian Portuguese is closer to Spanish than Portuguese Portuguese in terms of the pronunciation of words, but other than that they are both very similar.

Anyone here speak Turkish?

Ohh I see, I see Greater than the difference between BRITISH and American English, but less than the difference between Dutch and Afrikaans? Are there many/any Afrikaans speakers in Angola btw? If my geography is right, it borders South Africa??

And what's the situation in Angola, equatorial guinea(sp?) and Cape Verde? Do they just speak Euro Portuguese there, or do they have their own respective dialects?
Finally! I have found an unfortunate source to unload all my questions regarding Portuguese!

E o português de África? É mais parecido ao europeu ou ao brasileiro?

Hahaha. Yeah, I'd say the difference is quite similar to the British and American English one, but not so much Dutch and Afrikaans.

Angola borders Namibia, Zambia, and DR Congo. A lot of people have migrated to and from Angola due to civil wars and such. Near the borders you'll find a lot of people who do speak the language of their native country as well as Portuguese, but you can tell that Portuguese is not their first language. Not a lot of people speak Afrikaans in Angola despite the fact that some do speak it in Namibia.

Angola and Cape Verde both speak Euro-Portuguese, but in Cape Verde they also speak Portuguese creole which can be quite difficult to understand if you're not Cape Verdean.

Angola did have a language prior to colonization which was similar to other West African languages though this has been lost through the generations but some indigenous people still speak it.

As for Equatorial Guinea I do not know.

Duolingo has terrible audio for Portuguese

So it's not just me experiencing this problem.

Memrise has better audio.

you've just physically fed my brain, young sir, obrigadoo!

O português de África é igual ao europeu.

Its alright, then I interpreted it wrong. . . but honestly, I dont think I am. I wanna learn german, french if given the chance and Arabic in terms of understanding. . .
can you speak any of these languages?

She can do German well! She also does French, as do I!

Arabic... Like you I can only read it!

Ah, entendo. Mais é muito difícil aprender o português europeu, todos os recursos em Internet só ensinam o brasileiro. Eu quero aprender o europeu porque falo espanhol e parece que gramáticamente o europeu é mais parecido a espanhol, ainda que a pronuncição não é.

Ah, entendo. Mais é muito difícil aprender o português europeu, todos os recursos em Internet só ensinam o brasileiro. Eu quero aprender o europeu porque falo espanhol e parece que gramáticamente o europeu é mais parecido a espanhol, ainda que a pronuncição não é.

Não importa. Português brasileiro ainda é muito bom para o espanhol e é mais útil porque a economia do Brasil está crescendo. Mais pessoas vão falar o português brasileiro.

INTERESTINGLY, there have been some studies which even suggested that the grammar of Brazilian Portuguese is even closer to that of Mandirin Chinese, than it is to European Portuguese!

Just something I thought Aquismo might be interested in

INTERESTINGLY, there have even been some studies which even suggested that the grammar of Brazilian Portuguese is even closer to that of Mandirin Chinese, than it is to European Portuguese!

Just something I thought Aquismo might be interested in