Can Spanish speakers understand Portuguese?

[KARABOĞA]

I always thought it's something like Turkish and Azeri but from what I've read it's probably different than I thought.

 

[KARABOĞA]

@Hispania

 

[Hispania]

@Hispania

written I understand around 50-60%, but listening I understand very little. Although Brazilian is easier to understand. Also I think the Portuguese understand Spanish much better

 

[KARABOĞA]

written I understand around 50-60%, but listening I understand very little. Although Brazilian is easier to understand. Also I think the Portuguese understand Spanish much better

what about french and italian? it's really interesting iberian peninsula is not big but you both don't understand each other.

 

[KARABOĞA]

we %80 understand azeris, azeris probably much more understand us than we understand them because we removed many persian, arabic words in ataturk era. (though local people were already talking like now)

but after all an azeri in turkey or a turkish in azerbaijan will not have any conversation problem.

 

[idklolimo]

we %80 understand azeris, azeris probably much more understand us than we understand them because we removed many persian, arabic words in ataturk era. (though local people were already talking like now)

but after all an azeri in turkey or a turkish in azerbaijan will not have any conversation problem.

Özbek, Kırgız, Kazak? lol

 

[Hispania]

we %80 understand azeris, azeris probably much more understand us than we understand them because we removed many persian, arabic words in ataturk era.

but after all an azeri in turkey or a turkish in azerbaijan will not have any conversation problem.

French spoken very little, written about 30%. Italian similar to Portuguese. Written I understand it worse but spoken surprisingly I understand it better.
I also speak basque, and and a spanish speaker could not understand any Basque.
On the other hand Catalan and Galician are easy to understand, although not 100% (written, these two languages are very easy to understand but spoken more complicated)

 

[KARABOĞA]

Özbek, Kırgız, Kazak? lol

of course we don't understand them but spanish and portuguese very closer to each other even more than turkish and azeri (genetically spanish and portuguese almost same people) that's why i'm surprised.

 

[KARABOĞA]

French spoken very little, written about 30%. Italian similar to Portuguese. Written I understand it worse but spoken surprisingly I understand it better.
I also speak basque, and and a spanish speaker could not understand any Basque.
On the other hand Catalan and Galician are easy to understand, although not 100% (written, these two languages are very easy to understand but spoken more complicated)

It seems strange to me that the language is separated and differentiated that much. After all, I guess that once all Iberians spoke the same "Latin language". Maybe I'm wrong because I don't know much about it.

 

[Hispania]

It seems strange to me that the language is separated and differentiated that much. After all, I guess that once all Iberians spoke the same "Latin language". Maybe I'm wrong because I don't know much about it.

All Romance languages are just poorly spoken Latin, so maybe yes (except Basque which is a pre-IndoEuropean language), although i am pretty sure there have probably always been regional differences (maybe more marked than now).
Before Spanish/castillan was the most widely spoken language in Spain, there were even more languages in Spain

These were the languages spoken before Latin.

 

[idklolimo]

All Romance languages are just poorly spoken Latin, so maybe yes (except Basque which is a pre-IndoEuropean language), although i am pretty sure there have probably always been regional differences (maybe more marked than now).
Before Spanish/castillan was the most widely spoken language in Spain, there were even more languages in Spain

These were the languages spoken before Latin.

As far as I know, there are many Arabic words in Spanish.

 

[Hispania]

As far as I know, there are many Arabic words in Spanish.

Arabic is a language originating from Arabia. This language has contributed more than 1,043 words to the Spanish vocabulary. Arabic loanwords are found in various fields, especially science, construction, and food. Most Arabic words (292) begin with al-, which corresponds to the Spanish article el / la.
In place names, words that begin with Guad- (wadi, river) stand out, such as the Guadalquivir, Guadalete, Guadalfeo, Guadiana,...

 

[idklolimo]

Arabic is a language originating from Arabia. This language has contributed more than 1,043 words to the Spanish vocabulary. Arabic loanwords are found in various fields, especially science, construction, and food. Most Arabic words (292) begin with al-, which corresponds to the Spanish article el / la.
In place names, words that begin with Guad- (wadi, river) stand out, such as the Guadalquivir, Guadalete, Guadalfeo, Guadiana,...

I did some research and found out that there are 5000 arabic words in spanish.

 

[Hispania]

I did some research and found out that there are 5000 arabic words in spanish.

It was the first link on google
https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/ave...ue, tambor,,, celosía, azulejo, alcantarilla,

But searching on wiki this is what says
The influence of Arabic on the Spanish language is fundamentally lexical but its other influences are also briefly examined in this article. It is estimated that there are about one thousand Arabic roots,[3][4] and approximately three thousand derived words, for a total of around four thousand words[3][5][6] or 8% of the Spanish dictionary