Question about Brazilian and European Portugues | Antimoon Forum 3 ignorance (Brazilians don't ''hate'' Portugal, they ignore it, Portugal is remembered in history classes as a colonizer country and that's most Brazilians known of it; Brazilians are less related to Portugal than Mexicans are to Spain; most Brazilians visit Italy UK France rather than Portugal when they travel to Europe)
Does Russian sounds like Portuguese? | Antimoon Forum Most people here who tells shits about Brazil, or dont know the history of our country or not even that of Portugal Most ones, read something in Wikipedia or some stupid book and come to want to discuss to who lives here and has lived in Portugal!
Brazilians might as well just speak Spanish. . . | Antimoon Forum Truth: Brazilians speak a much more archaic form of the language, which may sound like spanish only because the two languages are from the same family Contemporary portuguese from Portugal (not the original by the way), is the dialect which has changed the most in recent history, and sounds very different from brazilian portuguese, because it is the least conservative
Why there is not a second world important language? - Antimoon Simple And did u have to ask that? >> Careful, think before you post or study history Spain, Portugal, France, and other European countries to lesser extents all hade colonial empires You could even say the same for the Muslim Empire (s) that spread Arabic along with it
Dutch surnames in French, and related issues. | Antimoon Forum Hi all, Did you know, that in France over 1,3 million (that's 1 300 000 in full) people have a Dutch surname? On a population of roughly 58 million people that is a rather large percentage Even the last French icon in history, Charles de Gaulle, had a Dutch name His original Dutch family name was 'Van der walle' (city dweller) which was transformed to 'Vandewalle', then 'de Gualle' and then
French? Italian? Spanish? German? Arabic? | Antimoon Forum Portugal never had the impact in world history as did Italy and other European nations For Christ sakes, have you heard of Christianity? It originated in Italy, and have you heard of the Roman Empire? That's Italy too Even currently Portugal is of lesser status amongst the European countries Guest Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:39 am GMT
Are Portuguese and Brazilian the same language? | Antimoon Forum ''Portuguese language originated in PORTUGAL and not Brazil '' incorrect, Portuguese language originated in Spanish province of Galicia, not in Portugal, so Galician is the real Portuguese, as far as language history is concerned
Celts and Anglo-Saxons | Antimoon Forum This has been a long debated topic on internet discussion boards If the primary ancestral compenent of England is not Anglo-Saxon or Germanic in origin, then why has modern day England adopted a Germanic language and culture, while Gaul and Spain, Portugal, and Italy did not in the face of a Germanic minority ruling class?
Spain and other speaking countries? | Antimoon Forum Spain have the most brilliant and vibrant history of every country in Europe There is no country in Europe with more importance than Spain The proof is this forum, everybody writes about Spain because Spain is in the mind everybody We are superior Contra más hableis de España, más grande es mi ego
Both Baltic languages sounds totally different. | Antimoon Forum Lithuania was surrounded by Russian and Polish for most of the history (apart from that small part of the south-west which was under German domination) However, even now the eastern dialects like "aukstaiciu" and "dzuku" sound more slavic than "zemaiciu" (samogitian) in the west, which must sound more like germanic languages