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Explain French (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Portuguese is like catalan which is like occitan (southern French). If you know one of the Latin languages, Portuguese shouldn't be too hard, really.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Portuguese shouldn’t be too hard, really

To read? Absolutely. To understand, even though I speak some other Romance languages? Just no.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Ah yeah that's fair enough. But then again that's true of all the languages I've learnt.

Learning spoken English with the BBC accent and then landing in Ireland and dealing with all the local accents... that was some craic alright!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Just learn 3-4 latin languages, and latin ofc and you should be ready to go