I saw a HP-48SX at flea market and I couldn't resist.

[walter b]

(05-22-2014 07:06 PM)jebem Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 02:44 PM)walter b Wrote:  (...) Sometimes I'm guessing a bit, and genders in Portuguese ... And Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese show quite some overlap which is no wonder looking at their histories.

True.
Once my wife travelled to Milan and she tried to use English in the shops an restaurants, but as no one seems to acknowledge, she tried Portuguese... and surprise, surprise communication was possible!
I have the same experience when I travel to Spain ... I switch to "portunhol" (...) where I use Portuguese but with Spanish accent and believe it or not, they follow me. Of course they do the same the other way around by speaking "espanholês"

Sim. I never believed it as a student* (nor would I ever have admitted it), though a solid base in Latin obviously helps you around southwest Europe. Once found me interpreting between Catalan and Italian on a business trip many years ago.

d:-)

*no, the other kind of