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Anyone else learning any languages at the moment? (lemmygrad.ml)
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If yes, how's it going? What do you like about it? What don't you like? What challenges are you encountering? How are you approaching it?

I ask because my partner and i both decided last year we would start doing a little language learning in our spare time, and it's been quite nice to have that "back to school" feeling again after so many years.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

Maybe it's the vowels. Portuguese has a lot of vowels and we mumble a lot. Spanish is painfully clear for me lol.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Maybe. I find the Brazilian dialect is slightly easier to make out. Portuguese Portuguese has a confusing sound to it that at first makes me think i'm hearing a Slavic language. I wonder if that's how other Romance language speakers feel about Romanian.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I saw a video of some Romanians speaking. I think it sounds a bit like a mix of Italian and a Slavic language. Not to the same extent as European Portuguese imo. If I'm not paying attention, a Russian speaker sounds like a Portuguese speaker. I don't know why.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I saw a video of some Romanians speaking. I think it sounds a bit like a mix of Italian and a Slavic language.

    That's a pretty accurate description. Italian is definitely the closest relative and this shows itself in some mutual intelligibility (though this is often one-way as Italians have a harder time understanding Romanian than vice versa – i've heard it compared to Spanish vs Portuguese speakers), but there are borrowed elements both in vocabulary and grammar from Slavic languages.

    If i'm being objective i have to admit Romanian is probably the hardest of the Romance languages. I'm seeing now just how many difficulties a learner can encounter as my partner has been trying to learn it for the past year.

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