2007-01-25 14:44:13 · 13 answers · asked by K2ThaL 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No, great one, there is not.
Who wrote that question for you ? I have the feeling that you have never gone to school
2007-01-25 15:09:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are inflection and accent differences, as well as differences in spelling and pronunciation. There are also word differences, but, they're not significant. I speak Spanish, and I find that I can understand Portuguese fairly well.
Or, as one of my colleagues said," Spanish is just Portuguese spoken badly." But of course, Spanish speakers would say that Portuguese is Spanish, spoken badly!! :)
2007-01-25 15:00:44 · answer #2 · answered by C. J. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, It's a different language, but just as Spanish speakers can understand a lot of Italian, and Latin, so too can they understand a good portion of Portuguese. Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian are derived chiefly from Latin.
2007-01-25 15:00:19 · answer #3 · answered by ramblin' robert 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there is a difference as far as I know. They both have different pronounciation, I noticed that it is easier for a portuguese to understand a spanish than the other way round.
2007-01-25 17:52:04 · answer #4 · answered by Victoria B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Although they are very similar, sharing the same parent language of Latin, they differ mostly in pronunciation and idiomatic expressions.
Nevertheless, oftentimes a spanish speaker can be understood in Brazil (where they speak Portuguese).
2007-01-25 15:04:55 · answer #5 · answered by oenophiliac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are entirely two different languages. If you give a Portuguese sentence to someone who speaks only Spanish, they wouldn't be able to understand it. Its like giving an english person a french sentence and asking them to make sense of it.
2016-05-24 00:33:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is. Just an example....Pig is porka in Portuguese and marano in Spanish. Of course, I probably mispelled both....
2007-01-25 14:58:59 · answer #7 · answered by KS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes ,,, of course!!! not only in phonetics but also in grammar,, but it is important to mention that a spanish speaker is sometimes able to read in portuguese because some words are very simliar.
2007-01-26 04:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by *KeLlY* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a lot of differences. Both are from Ancient Latin (same as Italian, French, Romanian) and have many common words but they're rather different.
2007-01-25 15:07:57 · answer #9 · answered by martox45 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-01-25 14:57:45 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both languages come from the Vulgar Latin from the time of the Roman Empire. They derive from the Romance, the ibero romance languages. Since both come from latin they both have some common words and grammar.
2007-01-25 15:21:08 · answer #11 · answered by chica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋