Spanish-Portuguese language blunders

Guest   Wed May 28, 2008 5:56 pm GMT
<I thought Gisele's Spanish was good, much better than her English anyway.>

hmm?? No, definately not.
J.C.   Sat May 31, 2008 6:11 am GMT
This is the COOLEST portunhol ever!!
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=PNNcqCQA2M4
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 1:06 pm GMT
J.C.   Sat May 31, 2008 5:32 pm GMT
Wow, she's indeed cute but THINKS she's speaking Portuguese just like MANY Brazilians think they speak Spanish when there are only some words used in the middle of the conversation with a Brazilian pronunciation.
I didn't know Shakira had Arab roots...

I found another cutie speaking Portuguese: Laura Pausini!
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=0yf_1woT8Mw&feature=related
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=f6xzXFEewwo&feature=related
But her Spanish is better I guess!!!
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 6:51 pm GMT
They speak poorly but what they say is almost always understandable.
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 8:38 pm GMT
Can Spanish and Portuguese be considered part of a macrolanguage just like Arabic?
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 9:31 pm GMT
Yup, Portuguese-Galician-Spanish
just like Afrikaans-Flemish-Dutch-Low German-High German
It's called a continuum
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 9:52 pm GMT
Both Portuguese and Spanish descend from Latin, but there's no continuum between them at all.
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 10:00 pm GMT
There is an obvious continuum.
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 10:13 pm GMT
What continuum??
They don't descend from one another.
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 10:16 pm GMT
Do you know what a continuum is?
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 10:17 pm GMT
Continuum does not mean descending one from another, but they have the same parents ;)
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 10:19 pm GMT
''In sociolinguistics, a language continuum is said to exist when two or more different languages or dialects merge one into the other(s) without a definable boundary. '' Wikipedia

There are 2 parts of SpanishPort. continuum

1. Northern Portuguese - Galician - Northeastern Spanish

2. Southern Brazilian Portuguese - Fronteirisso (popularly: portunhol) - Uruguayan Spanish
Vilella   Sat May 31, 2008 10:22 pm GMT
''In sociolinguistics, a language continuum is said to exist when two or more different languages or dialects merge one into the other(s) without a definable boundary. '' Wikipedia

There are 2 parts of SpanishPort. continuum

1. Northern Portuguese - Galician - NorthWestern Spanish

2. Southern Brazilian Portuguese - Fronteirisso (popularly: portunhol) - Uruguayan Spanish
Guest   Sat May 31, 2008 10:44 pm GMT
I wonder where you people get this info.
In the North of Portugal people speak Portuguese, in Galicia, Galician. There's no continuum, or portunhol!
That only appears when they want to communicate between themselves, it's an effort to communicate, not a dialect. Such nonsense.