How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
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How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
Ok, so we're talking stereotypes, but do you find the Portuguese a bit more insular and less brash? Always surprises me to find out their per capita gdp is well below that of the Spanish, yet they tend to speak English better (or at least it seems so).
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
Perhaps a question for the Portugese forum.
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
But the biggest difference is that the Portugese were born in Portugal and the Spanish were born in Spain.
All in all, another unanswerable question, because if we cant agree about things that are going on in Spain, when most live here and do have some contact with the Spanish, they how are we going to form an opinion about the inhabitants of a country that we have decided not to live in?
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
The Portugese put butter on the table in restaurants, Spanish dont.
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
In the World Cup final, the Portuguese I know (in London) were definitely not rooting for Spain, and in fact were very disappointed that Spain won. This may be a natural consequence of living next door to a bigger, more powerful neighbour. I suspect that if Eire had got to a WC final then plenty of English would have cheered them on; I suspect a far low proportion of Irish would cheer on an England team
From what I've seen during my few trips to various parts of Portugal, you could no more stereotype them, than you could the Spanish.
How long is a piece of string?
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
You may be right, but...If you were to ask a Portuguese person,"are you similar in behaviour/beliefs to a Spaniard" you'd get a very forceful NO. Put it this way, you can point out differences between the English and the Scots, and they speak (more or less given a few dialect differences) the same language. Or do you think you're the same as a Scot? I know the Scots would never admit to being similar to an Englishperson, in fact they go out of their way to protest their differences.
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
You may be right, but...If you were to ask a Portuguese person,"are you similar in behaviour/beliefs to a Spaniard" you'd get a very forceful NO. Put it this way, you can point out differences between the English and the Scots, and they speak (more or less given a few dialect differences) the same language. Or do you think you're the same as a Scot? I know the Scots would never admit to being similar to an Englishperson, in fact they go out of their way to protest their differences.
The range of variation within each country is probably greater than that from one country to the next.
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
The Portugese put butter on the table in restaurants, Spanish dont.
But the biggest difference is that the Portugese were born in Portugal and the Spanish were born in Spain.
All in all, another unanswerable question, because if we cant agree about things that are going on in Spain, when most live here and do have some contact with the Spanish, they how are we going to form an opinion about the inhabitants of a country that we have decided not to live in?
But the biggest difference is that the Portugese were born in Portugal and the Spanish were born in Spain.
All in all, another unanswerable question, because if we cant agree about things that are going on in Spain, when most live here and do have some contact with the Spanish, they how are we going to form an opinion about the inhabitants of a country that we have decided not to live in?
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
I have no idea what the difference between the people is - but they never seem to have any weather in Portugal - good or bad
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
I have no idea what the difference between the people is - but they never seem to have any weather in Portugal - good or bad
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try again!
edit - that's weird - I can see the link in the quote but not the post??
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
You may be right, but...If you were to ask a Portuguese person,"are you similar in behaviour/beliefs to a Spaniard" you'd get a very forceful NO. Put it this way, you can point out differences between the English and the Scots, and they speak (more or less given a few dialect differences) the same language. Or do you think you're the same as a Scot? I know the Scots would never admit to being similar to an Englishperson, in fact they go out of their way to protest their differences.
There´s a huge difference between most (trying not to generalize) Portuguese from the Algarve and from Lisbon, but that´s a different subject.
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
I know that I'm showing my ignorance here and also being too lazy to find out for myself but would someone be kind and explain the history of how Spain and Portugal came to speak different languages and why Portugal appeared to end up being less well off when they were both once great colonising nations?
Do the people who live on either side of the border get on generally - do they intermarry etc?
Do the people who live on either side of the border get on generally - do they intermarry etc?
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Re: How do the Portuguese differ from the Spanish?
I know that I'm showing my ignorance here and also being too lazy to find out for myself but would someone be kind and explain the history of how Spain and Portugal came to speak different languages and why Portugal appeared to end up being less well off when they were both once great colonising nations?
Do the people who live on either side of the border get on generally - do they intermarry etc?
Do the people who live on either side of the border get on generally - do they intermarry etc?
And yes, we all get along fine here, in our area (Ayamonte-Vila Real de St.Antonio) we don´t really care where one´s from......