My Spanish friends tell me that Italian is easier for them to understand than Portuguese. My Italian friends tell me the same.
I had a cousin (Azorean by birth) who worked for Varig Airlines in Brazil and when she came home to visit and used Brazilian Portuguese her mom kept telling her to speak Portuguese because she didn't understand her with all the new sounds. The thing to know is that Portuguese/Spanish/French/Italian/Romanian are all Romance languages and Latin is their link. I have been to Romania in 1991 and on the tours that were only given in Romanian I did understand quite a bit. What I didn't understand I asked them to say it in French then I got by. I did the same in Romanian restaurants. helen cunha kerner ________________________________ From: Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> To: azores@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, January 31, 2013 1:50:31 PM Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Island of my dreams When I used to teach in the public schools, we had to give out the state tests. I was supposed to pace up and down the aisles while my students were testing. So I used to listen to the Portuguese language tapes while walking up and down the aisles. After the testing was done, my Spanish speaking students (13 & 14 year olds) wanted to hear the tapes. They listened and said it sounded like Spanish with a French accent. One student told me that she thought if she were left in Portugal, she could probably start to get by after about 2 weeks (she was a native Spanish speaker). I've been told that Portuguese is supposed to be the closest to Romanian. I've never heard that spoken, so I really don't know. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
