É engraçado por ser verdade.
Ps. : A padeira manda beijinhos.
Solid gold 🪙 my friend. Source: I’m an ESL teacher in Spain.
Portuguese 💪
My guess is that Portuguese is a slightly harder language to learn and has significantly less speakers outside of Portugal and Brazil. So Portuguese have to make the effort to learn English to communicate with others.
On the other hand, Spanish speakers don’t have that problem so they don’t bother learning English; hence others don’t have a choice but to learn Spanish to communicate with others Spanish speakers.
Um bem haja para os espanhóis que respondem em inglês quando tentamos falar portunhol
Funny enough, when I went to Portugal while they had just a slightly higher number of english speakers, most people knew 2-3 languages, spanish being one of them.
Even being neighbors, and spanish being the third most spoken in the world, I found it odd that someone would have learned spanish and a third language but not english.
This is, of course, anecdotal. And we love you too.
¿Qué oigo? ¿Tragarse la lengua del enemigo albionés y encima estar orgullosos? Traición.
Meus amigos, vocês entendem alguma coisa do que nós escrevemos ou falamos? Nós entendemos tudo porque há sempre pelo menos um mexicano nos filmes de hollywood e os filmes em Portugal são legendados e não dublados.
War! I say we go to r/Portugal and ask for towels.
I would love to see a spanish person try to speak “Portuñol” but they cant be from Galiza, that’s cheating.
Espanha não é um figmento da nossa imaginação coletiva tal como Leiria?
Yo por vuestras alheiras y francesinhas dejo de hablar inglés. Amor ibérico.
He is *spain*
Is true, we cannot speak english.
But we can write it!.
It’s always been baffling how much people struggle to learn english. I was the kid who never did the workbook but still managed to answer almost everything correctly, so I guess I was on the opposite of the spectrum, but still, seeing 16/17 year olds in bachiller strugling with the verb to be was… Interesting.
Como es que solo 1 de cada 100 españoles sabe hablar inglés? O por lo menos eso he visto en Andalucia. He trabajado de camarero y siempre he sido el único que se puede comunicar con los guiris. Incluso, hace un par de dias, ayude a una empleada de un super a entender lo que le quería decir una clienta. (La estadística me la inventé, pero no debe de estar muy lejos)
En Portugal es más común que la gente sepa hablar inglés??
jajajajjaajajjajakakakaja todo el amor a portugal.
The real reason is subtitles.
> In Spain, those who sit the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score on average 89, whereas in neighboring Portugal the average score is 95. What could account for these apparent disparities in different pockets of Europe? New research published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization claims to have the answer: TV subtitles.
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É engraçado por ser verdade.
Ps. : A padeira manda beijinhos.
Solid gold 🪙 my friend. Source: I’m an ESL teacher in Spain.
Portuguese 💪
My guess is that Portuguese is a slightly harder language to learn and has significantly less speakers outside of Portugal and Brazil. So Portuguese have to make the effort to learn English to communicate with others.
On the other hand, Spanish speakers don’t have that problem so they don’t bother learning English; hence others don’t have a choice but to learn Spanish to communicate with others Spanish speakers.
Um bem haja para os espanhóis que respondem em inglês quando tentamos falar portunhol
Funny enough, when I went to Portugal while they had just a slightly higher number of english speakers, most people knew 2-3 languages, spanish being one of them.
Even being neighbors, and spanish being the third most spoken in the world, I found it odd that someone would have learned spanish and a third language but not english.
This is, of course, anecdotal. And we love you too.
TUGA PORRA😂
🇪🇦♥️🇵🇹
Muy bueno, queridos vecinhos!!
Es esto una declaración de guerra informal?
nos mola nuestros hermanos españoles xD
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Español >>>> lenguas bárbaras
Es muy bueno!
¿Qué oigo? ¿Tragarse la lengua del enemigo albionés y encima estar orgullosos? Traición.
Meus amigos, vocês entendem alguma coisa do que nós escrevemos ou falamos? Nós entendemos tudo porque há sempre pelo menos um mexicano nos filmes de hollywood e os filmes em Portugal são legendados e não dublados.
War! I say we go to r/Portugal and ask for towels.
I would love to see a spanish person try to speak “Portuñol” but they cant be from Galiza, that’s cheating.
Espanha não é um figmento da nossa imaginação coletiva tal como Leiria?
Yo por vuestras alheiras y francesinhas dejo de hablar inglés. Amor ibérico.
He is *spain*
Is true, we cannot speak english.
But we can write it!.
It’s always been baffling how much people struggle to learn english. I was the kid who never did the workbook but still managed to answer almost everything correctly, so I guess I was on the opposite of the spectrum, but still, seeing 16/17 year olds in bachiller strugling with the verb to be was… Interesting.
Como es que solo 1 de cada 100 españoles sabe hablar inglés? O por lo menos eso he visto en Andalucia. He trabajado de camarero y siempre he sido el único que se puede comunicar con los guiris. Incluso, hace un par de dias, ayude a una empleada de un super a entender lo que le quería decir una clienta. (La estadística me la inventé, pero no debe de estar muy lejos)
En Portugal es más común que la gente sepa hablar inglés??
jajajajjaajajjajakakakaja todo el amor a portugal.
The real reason is subtitles.
> In Spain, those who sit the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score on average 89, whereas in neighboring Portugal the average score is 95. What could account for these apparent disparities in different pockets of Europe? New research published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization claims to have the answer: TV subtitles.
Source: [The weird reason Danes speak better English than Germans do](https://newatlas.com/tv-subtitles-research/58089/)
Also: [TV or not TV? The impact of subtitling on English skills](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268118303494)