Can Spanish Speakers Understand Portuguese?
<p>I recently received this message in a work-related request. Apparently, if I can write in Spanish, it automatically qualifies me to write in Portuguese.</p>
<p>Only if everything was <em>that</em> simple.</p>
<p>Spanish and Portuguese both have their origins in Latin and both originated in the Iberian Peninsula. It’s not entirely clear when each language became independent from the other, but it must’ve been somewhere between the 14th century and the 16th. D.Dinis, the king of Portugal in the early 14th century, is famous for his poetic verses in Galaico-Portuguese. Camões, the great Portuguese poet, still understood a similar language, but wrote his epic “The Lusiads” (1556) in fully-fledged Portuguese.</p>
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