Discussion Post 9

[Nile Harris]

Writing in Portuguese has been pretty easy with my Spanish background. The syntax between the two languages is pretty much identical. I would definitely say that I prefer writing over typing. It is much easier to write the diacritical marks than having to search and use the ALT codes. I definitely can not remember all of the ALT codes. Because I am using Spanish as my base language for learning Portuguese, I am noticing and comparing the patterns in Portuguese to those that I already have learned in Spanish. One of the first patterns that I have noticed is the affixes. For example, if a word in Spanish ends "ión", in Portuguese it will end in "ão" (generalización = generalização). I tend to keep a daily journal in Portuguese of things that happened that day in order to better my writing abilities.

[Marco Barcenas-Consuelo]

What’s up Nile. I also found Portuguese to be much easier due to my background in Spanish. Since my first time learning the language, I felt as if I could already understand/read most basic literature because of their lexical similarity. In terms of typing, I found it much easier to just download an international English keyboard! This allows you to hold some combination of “Shift” and the letter you want to have the diacritical marking instead of having to remember the ALT codes.