I would like to learn spanish but peninsular sounds too harsh for me
Portuguese
lol, but true
Learn pt first and it’s the easy road to french, Italian, and Spanish.
is portuguese really the best language to learn first if one is going to learn all western romance languages?
I learned Portuguese as an expat, and the general consensus among expats was that the kids who were in a pt-speaking country first had a much easier time learning Spanish (and particularly getting the accent right) later than the other way around.
I found that after a day or two I could just read Italian, and could negotiate basic needs in Rome without a phrasebook.
trying to learn french rn, personally as a native pt speaker, french is weird, silly and sometimes funny, italian looks more “normal” to me, never tried learning it, spanish is often fully understandable even though i never tried to learn it just watched lots spanish documentaries
Yeah french orthography is a total mess but the pronunciation isn’t too bad
Don’t know the statistics, but as a native Portuguese speaker, the impression I get is that the other Romance languages are simpler. So if indeed it’s the hardest of the bunch, maybe starting with Portuguese automatically makes others easier to learn. Just worth noting, there’s quite a lot of overlap between the Romance languages, so patience to learn to separate them may be needed.
Rioplatense?
