[Albion Wilde]

In my experience with learning three romance languages, they need to be dissimilar. Otherwise, the stronger of the most similar ones will tend to “erase” the weaker one.

[dfwgator]

With French, I’ve gotten pretty good and speaking and reading it.

But for the life of me, I cannot pick it up when someone is speaking it. Especially now since French use a lot of slang, not to mention their silly habit of using “Verlan” to reverse words, like “Cimer” for “Merci”.

[Caipirabob]

In my experience with learning three romance languages, they need to be dissimilar. Otherwise, the stronger of the most similar ones will tend to “erase” the weaker one.

Hence the evolution of my "Spanjuguese" and "Portañol"..

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In my experience with learning three romance languages, they need to be dissimilar. Otherwise, the stronger of the most similar ones will tend to “erase” the weaker one.

If you learn Spanish, you can pick up a passive knowledge of Portuguese as you go.

But if you really try to learn Portuguese as well as Spanish, you could run into trouble.

Learning Spanish and Latin at the same time might work. The languages are close enough - yet far apart enough - and Spanish will help you with the genders in Latin.