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The Gallegos and Portuguese understand one another quite well. I was told on my last trip to Spain that both languages have a common root of the Latin from the northwestern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish (castellano) evolved from a different Latin...
I have to agree with everybody who said don’t try to speak Spanish with the Portuguese, (although I did see some Spanish visitors doing just that in Porto). I found English to be widely spoken by the Portuguese people I encountered, and on a...
Portugese people don't like tourists speaking español, better english or french.
A lot of them worked in France or Luxembourg and are very proud talking French (English).
Hi yes definitely , I'm a English man I walked from Lisbon to Santiago in 2019 and I can't speak a word of anything but English.
You will be fine just learn the please and thank you.
Speak English! Unless you are inclined to seriously piss-off the Portuguese that you are addressing
Spend a little time studying Portuguese: looks like Spanish, sounds like Russian - and you'll get bonus points for "bom Dia", "Obrigado" and...
I speak quite a bit of Spanish and have walked three full caminos: the frances, twice and the el norte, once. I'm considering doing the camino portuguese this September but don't speak a lick of Portuguese (which is quite different from Spanish -...
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