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Don’t dismiss Portuguese as some kind of slurring, overanalyzed cousin of Spanish.

The lightning population growth of Portuguese speaking Brazil alone makes Portuguese a major world language. Ancient Portuguese navigators carried the language to the mid-Atlantic, the African countries of Angola and Mozambique, the enclave of Goa in India, and even the Indonesian island of Timor.

Portuguese is the ninth most widely spoken language in the world, after Chinese, English, Hindi-Urdu, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, German, and Indonesian. Thus, Portuguese is an intelligent choice for the language “shopper” who wants to be different without abandoning the mainstream.

Portuguese nasal sounds are easier than the French and the grammar is only slightly more difficult than Spanish. Because I learned Spanish first, Portuguese will always sound to me like Spanish that’s been damaged on delivery. (That’s just a smile, not an insult. Dutch sounds the same way to anyone who’s first studied German, Danish sounds that way to anyone who’s first studied Norwegian, and Serbo-Croatian definitely fits the description to anyone who’s first studied Russian.)