August 21, 200818 yr Don't look for me in the forum, you can look for me in Sintra, Portugal, hehehe, I return circa 8 September. Some ideas about the place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintra My new, temporary home: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0151457301/
August 21, 200818 yr Author For a romance language speaker is easy to understand another romance language (a little more difficult is the romanian, historically isolated, but the romanian inmigrants learn spanish very fast), without previous preparation or learning ..... but only reading and writing. But speaking, there are some paradoxes: An spanish speaker understand italian, but for a italian speaker is difficult understand spanish !!! With the portuguese language, is the same thing, a portuguesian speaker understands an spanish speaker, but for the spanish speaker is difficult to understand the portuguesian speaker !! (It's only a question of sounds and entonation, the words and grammar structures are very similar). And for the old people is ever more difficult. And I always see "bona fide" in the other people, if you're good attitude. One time I questioned a Teniente Coronel de Infantería de Marina/Tercio de Armada (spanish marines), with active duty in NATO headquarters, near Bruxells (about 2003), what language they use in meeting in NATO, and he says me: "Everyone her language, spanish, french, italian, portuguese, only if ther'e somebody of USA, UK, or a minor country with an odd language, we speak english". But I doubt it's true, he says me that after our third gin-tonic (I remember well the event, was in a summer meeting, in Avila).
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