Portuguese-American perspective
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I'm 2nd generation Port/Luso-American on my dad's side and 3rd on my first. I speak decent Portuguese and have visited and lived in Portugal. I can say that many Portuguese people are nice but there are a lot of ignorant and rude Portuguese people too. The Portuguese are always bragging about how "important" their language is but they're rude and impatient with foreigners speaking their language (Imagine if an English-speaker did the same!). Because Portuguese is not an important world language like English or Spanish, the native speakers aren't used to foreign accents and grammatical mistakes. This is a shame since it stops people from wanting to learn the language. A lesson for rude Portuguese people - be patient with people learning your language! Appreciate that they even try. They don't make fun of your horrible English!
Lopes 14 Dec 2008, 09:40 - Report
Portuguese people are absolutely nice
- Portugal for the first time
- we love it!
- Just how nice portuguese people are
- THANK YOU ALL..................
- Portuguese
- Horrible portuguese??? ohhh Mina!!!!
- Portuguese people
- Portguese
- Portguese
- Mainland vs Azores
- portuguese people
- From Paris with love
- portuguese are the best
- MILTON READ THIS
- Portuguese
- Portuguese descendant
- portugal and portuguese people
- portugueses
- People
- Hot! Hot! Hot!
- Messing up everything… we are an passionate people, warm blood kind!
- just to had
- Portuguese-American perspective
- There are a lot of perspectives…
- portugal
- Silly discussion.
- Portuguese people are kind... I think we all are...
- What a coincidence.. (response)
- Idiot
- Nobody's perfect (Sarcasm all the way)
- Portuguese and others
- oh my god.
- Evolucao
- To all the people speaking without any knowledge of what they're saying...
- PORTugal
- Carlos Paião - Playback (Genius!!!)
- Proud to be Portuguese-American
- helloo
- Its the other way around...unfortunately !!!
- Wondering...
- Hmm...
- Hey!
- Portuguese