For Spanish and Portuguese speakers
Your advantages
French, Spanish and Portuguese are Romance languages: vocabulary, grammar and conjugation are close. Progress is usually fast.
The challenges
- pronunciation: [y], [ø], nasal vowels (except for Portuguese speakers, who have them), silent letters;
- spelling: far less phonetic than Spanish;
- mandatory subject pronouns (je parle, not *parle);
- false friends: embarazada (pregnant) ≠ embarrassée; constipado (having a cold) ≠ constipé;
- the risk of "mixing" languages through overconfidence.
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