It is also spoken by thousands of people in Goa, Daman and Diu in India. In 2014, Goa successfully hosted the Lusophone Games (which is to the Portuguese world what the Commonwealth Games are to the former British colonies).Goa University is the only varsity in the country offering MA programme in the Portuguese language in IndiaRead - Portuguese Language in India
In 1557, China lent Macau to Portugal for use as a trading post, marking the arrival of the Portuguese language in Macau. Following the signing of the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking in 1887, Macau was made a Portuguese territory until 1999, when it was handed back to China.Following the hand back, it was widely believed that use of the Portuguese language would decline in Macau. However, a renaissance of the Portuguese language occurred in the years that followed.Portuguese remains today an official language of Macau, although it has never been spoken by more than a small minority of the population. Portuguese is the first language of about 3% of the population (corresponding to about 15,000 people), while 7% consider themselves to be fluent (about 34,000). Additionally a very small number of people, less than 50, speak Patuá, a Portuguese Creole language.About 5,000 students study Portuguese in Macau. There is only one school where Portuguese is the language of instruction, Macau Portuguese School.Interestingly, Macau's legal code is written in Portuguese, and the faculty of law teaches classes in the language.
Our population is around 200 million. We all speak Portuguese as our mother tongue. Only the immigrants and the several native Brazilian tribes speak other languages. But they are very isolated and almost everyone else speak Portuguese. Almost all 200 million. It makes Portuguese the most spoken language In South America, since our population is larger than the combined population of all other 12 nations in South America.BRAZIL!!!!
Do Portuguese people speak spanish?
Portuguese and Castellano are VERY similer though, but Portuguese has many H sounds where it's not kept in Castellano... I don't know of they learn it in School.... Portuguese was never an option for me to learn (Spain) I could choose French...German.. other European languages but not Portuguese =/ I've never been to Portugal. You do see many Portuguese people in Southen Spain/Almería on Vacation =/ it is inteligible to speak with a Portuguese person for most simple phrases. But some words are very diffrent =) But I know from bottles of Shampoo ect. that most words look the same... or you can think of their meaning easily Jane is right, we ruled Portugal through an Iberian union. and the people become very poor... but Portugal gave the SPANISH titles/noble names to Portuguese, so we took them back and made them "pay" for what they had done. and then we charged high taxes to Portugal so they had a revolt, but we had joint rule for almost 60 years read about Portugal bajo la Casa de Austria but if you're asking if there is hard feeling now between us... not from our side ... =/ I don't know if Portugal like us, but we like them mdr
i doubt if they do.I’ve seen older Macanese people that speaks very fluent portuguese, it is true that it’s not 100% as fluent as pure portuguese people, but they can more or less express all the ideas they have.and I’ve seen a lot of macanese people in our generation that do not speak portuguese at all(of course, they know how to greet others in portuguese, but it’s not like they can form a complete sentence at all.) most of the parents prefer sending them to international schools or english speaking schools.I am of 100% Chinese blood, and i have a law degree from Portugal, so i speak both Chinese and portuguese.sometimes it is really difficult to distinguish portuguese/ macanese/ chinese by appearance.I believe the elder portuguese generation had a language called “Patua”, it’s a huge mixture of Chinese, Portuguese, southern asian languages, …. but it’s almost extinct, I’ve been told that there’s only like no more than 30 native Patua language speaker alive at this moment.if you’re talking about Chinese macanese, it seems to me that the macau community is NEITHER good at Portuguese NOR chinese. and obviously, English is not even on the list.It’s probably why they call the city “extraordinary” we all know how particular Macau is. *wry*
Why do some people say Brazilians don't speak Portuguese?
Among the languages originated in europe that spread throughout the world, i think that Portuguese was the one that changed most, maybe losing only to Dutch. But the language spoken in Brazil is Portuguese; at least that's what is written in wikipedia and most encyclopedias, is in the Brazilian constitution, and is recognized by all countries and international organizations. I mean, this is not a diplomatic question, like some people want it. In my opinion, it's all the same, to speak portuguese or not. I love it because i speak it, like i would love Dutch or Chinese if i spoke them. Going a little off topic Once in a while, i read some users writing that Brazilians speak 'Brazilian'. Curiously, i perceived one logic there. They only say that when Brazilian Portuguese is compared to European Portuguese. When Portuguese, in a general way, is compared to Spanish or the other Latin languages, or when someone asks how many people speak Portuguese, nobody says that. That's very convenient. I would invite those who says that we don't speak Portuguese, to share your opinion in questions like "are Spanish and Portuguese similar?"; i would feel a little better. And don't say that's because our language is closer to Spanish; for starters, we don't even speak Portuguese.
How can people stand to listen to someone speak Portuguese?
Man, i am brazilian, and spanish is far from being normal to my ears. Yeah, hispanic accent is very exagerated. I cant stand and hear someone speaking spanish. Sometimes i wonder: "why do these guys speak at this pace?". If u dont like Portuguese dont come to brazil and let my country at peace, we love our language and we are very happy like we are.And dont be so arrogant to say: "spanish sounds cool. portuguese sounds ugly.we speak neutral like everybody. portuguese sounds staccato.the whole world dont understand why brazilians speak like that. etc etc" because we think exactly the same thing about spanish. GLORIA STEFAN IS NOT BRAZILIAN SHES CUBAN SHE IS NOT SINGING WITH BRAZILIAN ACCENT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Estefan GLORIA STEFAN IS NOT BRAZILIAN SHES CUBAN SHE IS NOT SINGING WITH BRAZILIAN ACCENT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Estefan GLORIA STEFAN IS NOT BRAZILIAN SHES CUBAN SHE IS NOT SINGING WITH BRAZILIAN ACCENT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Estefan Bye.
Is it hard to find Portuguese speaking people in Macau?
From my very wise grandpa, right now, I have heard, Portuguese is now no longer compulsory in schools today as of December 20, 1999 when Macau was ceded back to China after being colonized by Portugal for 400 years, so probably if you bump into younger people (i.e. College and High School Students today) to ask for help in Portuguese, probably, they'd have a lack of usage (as in none only Chinese or just very little because they grew up to only be able to learn very little or no more Portuguese) since when they started school, Portuguese is no longer needed to be learnt in Macau or they only learnt it during their preschool and early elementary school years, unlike Brazil, but if you maybe try to find older generation, you will have a more likely chance to be able to communicate fair enough because they had a good usage of Portuguese and probably can understand you better, but also is better to find official Portuguese in Macau. Hope it helps! P.S. I once watched a video of a Portuguese speaking Cantonese. LOL! :P