7 DIFFERENCES Between Spain and Portugal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- This video is about some of the differences between the two Iberian countries of Spain and Portugal. They are similar in many ways of course, but different in many others. This video includes some of the differences that stood out to me.
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As a spaniard, one thing that drive us crazy is the fact that Portugueses do understand 95% when we talk, while we don't (except galicians) because of their prononciation (they tend to "eat" the vowels). Then, when we read written portuguese, we do understand almost all of it. Nevertheless, we are good neighbours and we get along pretty well. We both share a similar cultural and historical heritage and our influence in the "new world" is much more than evident. I wish all the best for our neighbours and a prosperous future to the good people of both of our nations. Boa sorte na Copa do Mundo irmãos ;)
Its true, i understand 95% of spanish... never understood why spanish have trouble understanding portuguese because is so similar. I love spain, "nuestros hermanos" :)
Love the Spanish
É verdade. Percebemos quase tudo. Ehehe :) Mas se vocês tiverem paciência para tentar entender e nós falarmos devagar também conseguem.
So true. Spain is our big brother country.
@@ritacastro5632 correction, its ours "big little brother". As a country they are bigger but we are much older than them.
Ι'm greek and I love both countries - greetings to our iberian brothers!
Love you back
Thank you! Likewise!
Love to Greece from Spain!
Love you back form Galicia (yeah, Northen Spain). I dreamed with see the Acrópolis, even that I rejected to see geek monuments in the British Museum when I went. I want see them in Greece!! and of course, I would love to feel the Mediterranean and its light, and see your beautiful islands and places
@@slayer.trades gracias por tus amables palabras. Tengo muchas ganas de conocer Galicia, es una tierra preciosa. Yo soy de Corfú, una isla del mar jónico :)
I'm Spanish. Two best countries to live in Earth! Best meals above all also. I travel frecuently to Portugal and love that country as i love mine.
Gracias!
Omg I just said that! lol.
Admiration, respect and affection for our Portuguese brothers. We have much more in common than what differentiates us.
Por supuesto! Saludos desde Portugal
Thanks brother, a português from Lisboa
Yo soy un portugués que piensa que los españoles son los nuestros hermanos. Me encanta
Gracia, amigo.
É verdade.
I loved it. I live in Galicia, about 20km from the mountainous border. There is a feeling of continuity, in a linguistic, architectural, and landscape sense. However, the northern Portuguese are faithful to their earlier lunchtime, which is, in a way, the only real shock you would experience upon crossing. Well, that, and the automatic text message your phone recieves informing you about the roaming conditions.
Roaming conditions i receive a lot of those even i dont cross the border.
I have a house in Castro Marim and when travel to Mertola inside Portugal usingf the IC27 i receive a lot of texts... Of course i put gas (petrol) in Spain because is the only thing i think is more cheap than in Portugal at least in Algarve.
@@arturjcrebelo3275Me too! I also have a house in Castro Marim and it's the same for me.
You know, we up in northern Portugal feel exactly the same when crossing to Galicia 😊
Portuguese is a dialect of gallego
Se isso vos faz felizes...
Spain and Portugal are so similar yet so different. This will be interesting to see
Yep!
Every Region of Spain is so similar yet so different too hahaha for example, Andalucia vs Asturias, Catalonia vs the basque country, etc etc
@@carpetano4491 norte e alentejo.
@Alexandre Mendes So did basically the entirety of Asia,Africa and Europe
@Alexandre Mendes You're saying it like that Portugal was the only country that was never taken over by Spain even though most of the world has never been taken over by them either
Two of my favorite countries, love Portugal & Spain from Brazil 🇧🇷❤🇵🇹🇪🇸
two* 👍🏻 😁
@@canonicstory he is brazilian xD
I'm Portuguese and I have nothing short of admiration for both countries, their history but also their future.
The Iberian peninsula is so similar but also so different and diverse. Also Portuguese and Spanish showed several times that when they unite, they can achieve wonderful things together.
One thing that Portugal is different from Spain is the TV shows and films. Spanish TV always doubles the original voices while in PT we keep it original and make the translation as subtitles. That's why it's easier for Portuguese to speak other languages because we are "familiarized" with the sounds of other languages.
Another thing we are different about is the food. Portuguese tend to eat more rice and Spanish tend to eat more potatoes.
Am glad to see you guys in the comments giving us your insight. I feel they're the two most admired countries in the universe! I love listening to the sounds of each language as well as reading it. I'm actually studying Spanish and am beginning to understand some of it. Not well enough to speak it but I can read it. And here I thought I'd never learn it only to be proven wrong. I get a bit impatient when quizzed and I answer incorrectly then get frustrated and give up. Only to return two hours later and ace the quiz. it has proven quite challenging but seeing and reading your guy's opinions in the comments gives us major hope in one day making it more widely spoken in the states as well. If I didn't like how it sounded I probably wouldn't bother trying to learn it but love listening to both languages so much it is literally everything I do. If I'm not studying it I'm either listening to it watching it or embellishing in it someplace else. And it never gets tiring. For us English speakers you guys are a whole nother 🌎universe! 😊
National political leadership during the early 20th century is responsible for the course of history whereby France, Portugal, UK, etc., were subbing countries and Spain, Italy, and (I believe) Germany and Poland, etc. dubbing countries. Even in the least developed countries in Latin America (where I am originally from) subbing is the norm for foreign films. And so it is in the USA (where I have long lived). (I should add that nonetheless we are explicitly not famous for our multilingualism over here in the nations of the New World!) When I lived in Spain briefly I hated dubbing, especially in English language films. I still think it is primitive and barbaric, one of the few cases where I wish local tradition would vanish, but it does not seem to be going away. I do think it is tolerable in most cases in cartoons, if that is you can get a really good voice cast, but that is it.
"Also Portuguese and Spanish showed several times that when they unite, they can achieve wonderful things together.". Well are we gonna talk about the union?
@@MSTavares No joke. Once I saw how much there was to learn about these 🇪🇦🇵🇹two you guys blew my world wide shut. like the whole egg cracked and I'm only beginning to see it. it's like a ball of rubber bands. solve one riddle find and start another solve that riddle start another and so on. the language is literally guiding me to conquer it it's like it wants me to learn it with as strange as that may sound. I actually came across an Asian profile on quora who's studying both of these languages which was crazy to me cuz it's usually the rest of the world trying to learn Asian culture then when I saw that I was blown away! I don't know why I thought that was so awesome but I was amazed.
When we united, Portugal almost became a spanish province.
I'm Brazilian, but I can't wait to watch this one, for Portugal! 🇧🇷💚🇵🇹
Muito cuidado, crise na europa
@@franciscapires1980 Tinha que vir a putinette do costume...
Eu moro em Cabo Verde, país que ante era parte de Portugal🇨🇻💘
@@franciscapires1980
Crises existem em todo o lado !...
Um abraço também para você, irmão brasileiro.
I noticed that portugese are generally more proficient in english than spanish. I'd say it's partly due to the lack of dubbing in cinemas and tv.
That makes sense. Also there are only a handful of countries that speak Portuguese whereas Spanish is spoken from Mexico on down in the entire western hemisphere minus Brazil and a couple other small countries.
Orgulloso de no saber inglés 🇪🇦
@@Lacteagalaxia That's like saying you're proud of not knowing how to multiply numbers or proud of not knowing how to drive.
@@alejandrotraid6677 For one you are right. It's not good to loose your culture from the imposition of the anglo-saxon cultural hegemony as you say.
But on the other side, it's great that you are able to communicate with billions of people and know more about their cultures.
@@alejandrotraid6677 that'll never happen. English is a universal language.
I'm a portuguese living in Spain! I'm so grateful for the opportunity I'm getting on ny neighbor, Spain is an amazing country and I was super well accepted by everyone, I don't even feel a foreigner here!
I'm half Spanish, half Portuguese. Can't wait for this one!
The ultimate Iberian citizen
based
Jajaja yo también. Somos gemelos
Same here lol.
@@iberoradicalaccount1042 missing the 33% andorran or english, lol
Some differences that I've noticed in Spain as a fellow Portuguese:
1. Spaniards are louder and seem to go out more to the streets for beer/food
2. Although we look similar I think there are more blond people, lighter skin in Spain and sometimes they look more Italian or French to me idk lol (also more diversity in general)
3. Food wise I believe Spain does "tapas" better than our "petiscos". So if you're having a beer or wine it's easier to find snacks at more places rather than in Portugal I feel. As far as a proper meal goes I recommend sticking with Portuguese food tho 😏
Love Spain, wishing all my Iberian brothers the best !!!
Eles vão para a rua socializar. São muito mais sociais que nós.
As a tourist who has visited both countries several times, I find Spanish people generally more welcoming and kind.
@@PureAlbania também me deu essa ideia. Já estive em Madrid e Sevilha e as ruas estavam sempre cheias de gente nas esplanadas, parques... Nós gostamos de ir à rua mas eles acho que nos ganham nisso!
@@lemonz1769 they can't even speak English tho... Surely they cursed you out in spanish many times but you just didn't notice 🤣🤣
Na verdade nem é assim tanto. Portugal tem a maior percentagem de pessoas loiras e ruivas no sul da Europa
I love Portugal, the landscape, the people, their language, food, culture…we have so much in common. Probably there are no other country in Europe with such a close feeling that a future confederation would be a very possible bet. Saudade from Spain.
Spain can’t even keep itself together right now, the last thing it needs is another autonomous separate ethno-linguistic group within the kingdom.
Also, I doubt Portugal would ever entertain a union with Spain so long as Spain is a kingdom. Portugal is proudly republican.
Oh, and historically joining Spain hadn’t worked out well for Portugal. Amidst the Iberian Union. It strained Portugal’s friendship with England and nearly destroyed the Portuguese Empire
Two of my favourite countries in the world. I love both Portugal & Spain! Portuguese and Spanish people are amazing and the language, culture and food are second to none!!! From UK 🇬🇧
great video, always well informed! from my perspective I would say most Portuguese would have dinner before 9 when eating at home. As for the Portuguese being more formal, it’s true however the use of that formal language is also heavily associated with politeness towards any stranger and older people...
Exactly. When dinning at a restaurant with friends, usually, expect it to start between 9:00 and 9:30 pm. People also tend to be late about 15 minutes. But when at home with your family, dinner is at 20:00. Sometimes, elderly eat earlier, like at 19:00 or even at 18:00 (!!!), especially in winter. They tend to go to bed as soon as it goes dark.
José Saramago (Portuguese writer & Nobel prize laureate) said Portugal and Spain were 2 siamese brothers joined at the back, who could not look at each other.
It is quite spot on, as historically Portugal's alliance with England (historic enemy of Spain who later allied with France) has separated them.
Geography also helped, as the area between both countries is sparsely populated and generally mountainous.
Today both peoples are very close again and ties are getting stronger with every generation. Thar said, I think most Spaniards might still feel culturally closer to Italy for some reason.
But we are all Latin cousins so cheers!
That is very much true! We Portuguese know sometimes less about Spain than we know about England or France, which is a pity, because Spain has incredible wealth in most things: history, architecture, arts (for the last 30000 years), food, landscapes and nature.
Pues yo cómo español por supuesto que me siento cercano a los italianos porque son nuestros primos, pero me siento mucho más cercano a los portugueses porque son nuestro hermanos.
@@mclabec1946 Quizás para uno que viva relativamente cerca de Portugal sí
Portuguese people also feel closer to Italians or French than Spaniards.
Every single region of Spain is very different too, comparing the basque country with Andalucia, or Galicia with Catalonia, etc. Btw I love Portugal, I truly love it and I'm Castilian :P in the past both regions were always competing to see who was the best, this seems to be a characteristic of all the regions that make up this beautiful Iberian peninsula. We are so similar and at the same time so different, this applies to the other regions of Spain too.
every region in Portugal is different too
@@skurinski Yes, but it can never be compared to the diversity that exists in Spain, 85% of the Iberian peninsula
Portugal and Spain membership in the EU jelped ending a lot od the traditional rivalry and suspicion among the two people and today we get along very well. Lots of spanish tourists visit Portugal every year, much to my surprise given how packed Spain is with monuments and natural beauty but they are very welconed to stay here.
Andorra would love to share the Iberian Peninsula with its southern neighbors!
Andorra may be an independent country, but socially and linguistically is another part of Spain. Castilian is the dominant language in Andorra, not being official though. The Andorrans are very aware of everything going on in Spain. They watch the Spanish TV channels and listen to the Spanish radio.
@@karm3667 What about a French president ruling with a bishop?
@@revinhatol Creo que más es por representación que otra cosa.
Andorra a estado ligada más a España que a Francia y entendería porque los Franceses siempre an visto mal a los que somos de la península Ibérica y Andorra es parte también .
@@revinhatol What do you mean? The French president is the case of an aristocratic title voted by the people and the case of a world leader voted by the people of one country to rule another country. The official language in Andorra is Catalan, but Castilian is the dominant language in Andorra. Step into an Andorra police station and you'll hear all the police members speaking Castilian among themselves. The Andorrans know very well all the Spanish politicians, singers, actors and so on, but not so well the French ones.
@@karm3667 I know, they're learning. And I've even talked about the Bishop of Urgell.
Respect from Portugal to my Spanish brothers and sisters. We speak 2 of the sexiest languages in the world 🙃
Great video as usual, Paul, thank you.
I love both Spain and Portugal. So similar and so different at the same time.
I have a very slight preference for Spain because - as an Italian native - I find Spanish easier to learn than Portuguese and because I do prefer the Mediterranean sea over the Atlantic ocean (or indeed any ocean) for my holidays.
Both countries are immensely rich in places to visit and the two peoples, although different, are both lovely.
Grazie!
@@vervideosgiros1156 Italia, il mio paese favorito. Baci da Madrid
@@jgil848 Ahaha! Yo tambien no soy italiana, yo soy portuguesa! Saludos desde Portugal!
@@vervideosgiros1156 Também gosto muito de Portugal.
@@jgil848 😉 ♥️🇵🇹🇪🇦🇮🇹
Main differences IMHO: 1) language proficiency in Portugal is better (because we're perhaps more exposed to foreign cultures in the media); 2) lunch time sure differs (12:00 in PT, 14:00 in Spain) (which is ok on holidays, but schedule work meetings can be more complicated, although 1h difrence certainly helps to balance it out between Portuguese and Spanish); 3) Spanish are more outgoing, we seem more introverted; 4) although Portuguese talk loud in family lunches and dinners (you only have a point when you speak it louder than all the others :D), we usually keep it low outdoors, but such is not the case with Spanish in general; 5) Portuguese, generally speaking, do not cherish enough their culture/music, but Spanish market it pretty well. I have to admit, we have a lot of things in common, one of the most obvious to foreigners is the time at which we go to bed: going before midnight is a totally alien concept (except for kids and elderly).
we all know the master of culture marketing is Italy hahaha
Portugueses - hospitality and friendliness
Great video. Just a correction. Spanish monarchy was not restored "after a period as a republic under the leadership of Francisco Franco", that period was a Franciso Franco's dictatorship after a civil war that abolished the republic in 1939.
You are right. Franco considered himself a king in some way. Actually he stablished the "Consejo del Reino" (Kingdom Council) and assumed lot of the roles which traditionally were attributes of the monarchy.
I don't think any historian (or Spanish citizen) has ever considered the dictatorship period as a republic. The dictator even granted titles of nobility.
Love the channel, but this is an important blunder, sorry.
@@jprietoprieto Franco never regarded himself as a king. Spain's official name back then was actually Spanish State not Kingdom of Spain.
@@karm3667 You are wrong. "España, como unidad política, es un Estado católico, social y representativo que, de acuerdo con su tradición, se declara constituido en Reino". "Spain, as a political unit, is a Catholic, social and representative State which, in accordance with its tradition, declares itself constituted as a Kingdom". Article 1 of the Law of Succession 1947 approved by the Cortes and subsequent referendum.
You also failed to mention that Portugal went under went autocratic rule after having a republic it was overthrown and they had almost as long of a dictatorship as Spain so they both went through that but when they got out of that Portugal went back to a republic and Spain went to a constitutional monarchy
We Spaniards love our Portuguese neighbours and always have good relationships. We have so many things in common that we can consider cousins rather than neighbours 🇵🇹🫶🏼🇪🇸
brothers* we have the same blood
one note on Lunch and Dinner times in Portugal: while it is not uncommon to see people have meals at those times (12:00 // 21:00) more usual in Portugal is 13:00 and 20:00, which also coincides with the afternoon and evening Main news program.
Just one comment. Everything was quite right besides dinner time. In Portugal 🇵🇹 we usually eat at 8pm or 8.30 pm. Congratulations for your good work.
Well, it depends on the time. It's still not as different as in Spain, since they are one hour ahead...
Yes, I would say that the average in Portugal is 13h for lunch and 20h for dinner...
Yes, I would say PT normal dinner time to be 8-9.30 while in ES 9.30 I feel it too early...maybe 9.30-10.30
@@TheEloyMiranda It's almost the same time since Spain is one hour ahead.
@@diogorodrigues747 it's not the same time, it's almost simultaneously. Same time no, because it changes the rhythm of life
Viva a península Ibérica 👏👏👏👏🇵🇹🇪🇸
Viva !
In Portugal we usually eat at 13h (lunch break 13h-14h) and most people have dinner at 8h or 8h30. It's not that late, because we eat 4 times a day, not just 3. In Spain they take a nap, not because of whatever time, but because the center of Spain is really hot in the summer, and who can work when it's hot as hell?!
speak for yourself bro, down here in the south we eat from 12-13H
Really? I think in Lisbon, 12 p.m. is quite early to lunch, but some people would eat at that time. I think some restaurants only start serving at 12:30, normally until 2:30 or 3 p.m. Many people nowadays will have dinner at 9 p.m., something that has changed over the years - when I was younger, it would be considered a very late dinner, and I still know restaurants that would not be happy if you try to make a reservation so late, they would say 8:30 p.m. instead. But those are older, more traditional restaurants. But while it's common to have dinner at 8 or 9 p.m., I'm not sure it's accurate to say 9 p.m is the "normal" hour to have dinner in Portugal. Most restaurants would start serving at 7:30 until 10 or 11 p.m. The time the kitchen or the restaurant closes will depend a lot of the area where it is located.
@@Ghostsise A maioria dos empregos que têm horário fixo de almoço é a essa hora. Obviamente que em dias de folga as pessoas fazem o horário que quiserem. Acho de muito mau gosto a alcunha que escolheu...
@@vervideosgiros1156 why do you Say that?
@@Ghostsise I thought you were portuguese. Do you think it's a nice nickname? I don't think so...
This was so very educational.
Thank you so very much Paul
Somos diferentemente iguais! ;)
La mejor respuesta de todas
Very proud to see this video as a portuguese, one thing i note is that we make an effort to speak spanish when theyre here but not the other way around, another thing is that theyre louder than us
Es porque si entendemos un poco portugués osea algunas palabras se parecen y otras intuimos que podrían ser o significar . Por otro lado creo que somos más expresivos a la hora de hablar 😁 y alzar la voz y mover las manos es como poder más expresar lo que sentimos no solo con palabras.
Hermanos portugués también son queridos aquí en España ,pero sentimos que no les gusta hacer lazos con nosotros ,haber es como que en vez de tener diálogos para hacer tratos es como más silencioso todo en nuestra relación .
@@Merry19ssNa verdade queremos muito essa aproximação, são milhares de portugueses que atrvessam a fronteira para desfrutar da vossa boa vida e bons preços. Abraço.
Yup.
Spanish ,Italians & Americans are the loudest.
@@Merry19ss Nos gusta sí, pero nosotros no tenemos tanto "salero" como vosotros! 🇵🇹🇪🇦
@@corpi8784 Italians from the South. North Italians are not that loud.
As a spaniard, i love both countries
Thanks for posting Paul!
Thanks Paul. I've enjoyed this video!
*The timezone in the Canary Islands (Spain) is the same as in continental Portugal.
Besides having much less coast than Spain, Portugal has a bigger EEZ - the 20th biggest in the world, while Spain's is on the 30th position.
Im portuguese, and the ones who say we have nothing in common with Spain are just having a pavlovian response to what it was said in the past. Same people divided by states. It's the states that make us slightly different.
What you say is true only in the last 150 years, and even then Portugal was threatened with invasion a couple of times, as far as the begining of the last century. We're closer today, but the bad blood is always there, despite of personal preferences. Call it genetic if you will, but Portugal and Spain are two very different beasts.
As Spaniard from Barcelona I must congratulate you for such a well documented video. I just would mention "castúo" among the non-official Spanish languages and put some emphasis on the fact that "siesta" is a cliche (at least on working days). Another difference I've noticed between Spaniards and Portuguese: they are quieter. If you are sharing a long-trip train with Iberian youngters, pray the Lord that they may be from Portugal.
I learned the hard way from my ex Brazilian wife and my Galician friend that Portugal and Spain and Galicia are indeed different animals. I never knew how insanely diverse Spain is and how similar in syntax and grammar Portuguese is to Greek. Amazing video as always
greetings from Brazil watching I love both countries very much
🇧🇷♥️🇵🇹🇪🇸
We may be percieved as more formal in Portugal, but i think in reality our society just raises us up to be more polite
Great vid! I'm from Puerto Rico, and my wife and I went to Portugal this past spring for the first time. We had a great time, I wish we had more time to visit, but nevertheless, it was a great experience. The people are friendly and we had no issues relating and speaking, even when we spoke Spanish, and the locals speaking Portuguese, we still understood each other very well. I can't wait to go back to visit again, hopefully with a bit more time to see more of the country.
Ainda bem que gostou, oxalá possam voltar.
@@joaoteixeira7410 Obrigado! Esperamos volver si Dios quiere, para disfrutar y ver mas del país.
As a Spaniard something that always strikes my when I go to Portugal is that It's much quieter there. In Spain everybody speaks very loud and the ambient is quite noisy specially in bars, restaurants and pubs. It is a storng contrast with the quietness of those places in Portugal. I envy that.
Actually most of Europe is quite but Spain. Spain is different.
I'm always surprised by the accuracy of your videos. For a moment I thought you wouldn't mention the mirandese and astur-leonese language. Not only you did, but noted its relation, you're a pro!
I'm originally from a neighboring area of Portugal. There's even a town splitted in two by the border. People there speak and mix both languages, having their own "portuñol" variety. I first had my ID to go shopping to Portugal when I was a kid (before UE free movement was stablish), and I go from time to time. Maybe because of that I don't feel like being "totally abroad" when I go to Portugal. It's more like visiting a close relative.
Portuguese are indeed more proficient in English, probably thanks to their lack of doubbing. I also feel that Portugal is a bit more culturally cohesive from north to south (islands like Madeira appart), while Spain has deeper differences between it's regions (maybe a Portuguese won't agree, idk).
You rigth in almost everything, im from madeira and im very proud beeing portuguese.
@@joaoteixeira7410 I visited Madeira once. Wonderful island! I found particular the architectural style.
@@Alovar13 the style is ( estilo manuelino) .glad that you enjoy it.
I realy dont notice significant cultural difference between the continent and the islands,
@@j.dasilva4567 Existe algumas diferenças mas felizmente somos um país muito unido culturalmente.
I'm quite excited for this video. 😁
Thanks for the heart! :)
I have already studyed in Portugal for a year and I've already been to Spain (Castile and Catalonia). I love both countries! According to the DNA test taken from my blood, I'm mostly Iberian and Italian (country which I have also already lived in). All of that makes me a proud Latin, son of Rome, blessed by Venus, godess of love and beauty.
Well said!
Such Idolatry and Heresy
That's pure paganism 😨 😰
I'm PT 🇵🇹 too and I'm not like that, thanks God! 🙏🏻 😇
@@mikidias what's the problem with paganism? Take care of your own life! 😊😉
@@fernandovilela3803 Touché! I live in Portugal, but Italy probably is my favorite country in the world. I also love Spain. My heritage goes back to northern Europe and the British Isles, made up primarily of Irish, German, eastern French, basically the border area between Germany and France, a little bit of Finnish or Scandinavian and Scottish. I find the Latin culture is much more sexy, the food better the artist terrific I am kind of stuck with the work ethic. The Irish guilt and shame tendency to moodiness and depression, and we are economically successful. Lol.😊
Dope video, right on
absolute god tier thumbnail facial expression
lol
I was gonna say the same. Paul you’re the best!
Just a quick clarification - When you said that young spaniards tend to use the informal "you" with strangers, I'd said the same happens in Portugal. I'm a teenager and if I need to ask something someone my age (or even younger) I've never spoken to, I'd probably use the informal "you" as it sounds more natural and speaking formally would sound kinda strange.
Another thing, I'm not quite sure about other regions and this varies from household to household, but I'd say the typical dinner time would be 8/8.30 pm, rather than 9 pm.
Which country has the more beautiful women ?
This new information to me is fascinating. TH-cam is like free education on various topics on anything.
Love both countries, culture, people, food. A few very subjective / personal contrasts:
Spaniards: more stylish, elegant
Portuguese: more humble, friendlier
Wine: Portuguese better reds, Spain better whites
Food: Spanish more refined, Portuguese simpler but very rewarding
Climate: more diversity in Spain, but personally I prefer the Atlantic over the Mediterranneean
Golf: Portugal slightly better, due to climate (less dry)
Language: Portuguese sounds harsher than Spanish, but also sounds more intriguing and interesting
Football: delicate one...but the numbers don't lie. Spain is better, even though Spain has never had the equivalent of C. Ronaldo
Im portuguese, and its 00.37h and i am having dinner right now
Lol! Spanish society is so informal we call our teachers by the pronoun "tú", the informal pronoun (instead of 'usted', which is the formal one) and vice versa. I think students refer to their teachers as "usted" in Hispanic America and so do teachers, but that doesn't happen in Spain. We can even call them by their first names! And that's a thing that would be very disrespectful in the USA, right?
Yes, I was very surprised studying a Master's in Spain. When I heard a classmate call the professor "tú", I thought she was being very disrespectful. I learned that they speak like that to almost everyone except really old people.
@@christopherantonio3612, a Master? So you were all adults?
@@Japonesbello That's the exact opposite for French: the American dialects were heavily influenced by English so people largely skip the polite form "vous" commonly used in daily formal communications in European forms and use "tu" instead.
In colombia we use "usted" veru often and isnt related with a formal way, is just a way... We can call our teachers by tu, vos or usted without problem, it doesnt mean always a sign of respect, in spain they call teachers by "tu" usted is used often for older people
When I was a student we used to call teacher as "stor" ou "stora", it's portuguese slang. I dont know if today kids call teacher same way or more formal.
Nice....Thanks.
Excellent video. I speak Spanish and English but have difficulty in understanding spoken Portuguese. Spoken Italian on occasions can be easier to understand but written Portuguese is easier to follow than written Italian,
I've lived in Portugal 3 years now and definitely prefer it to Spain. The Portuguese are calmer and the state doesn't hunt residents. Just a few days in Spain on a vacation costed me hundreds of euros of fines for speeding. Though I did not realize I was actually speeding when I had 4 and 6 km over limit, according to the fine receipts. Never fined for speeding in Portugal where common sense is enough on the road.
Thank you for your money 🥰
Do you complain that you are fined for breaking the country's rules? Now, this is fun.
You cannot go by 4 or 5 kilometers because the ranges in which the radar does not fine you are over 10 km.
You should have gone faster, but you lie that something remains.
@@McLarry88, the video was about the two countries. My comment was to show the difference.
The stricter Spain has a better economy and other advantages over loose Portugal. Lower prices, better salaries, more order and reliable services.
Why do you lie about 5 km when I wrote 4-6? It seems like you are as full of shit as you like to blame others. It was interesting to hear about the radar limitations. But you are not a gentleman enough to ask questions and continue the conversation.
I hope you find love and get laid once in a while.
Time zone of Spain surprised me, especially noon time
Learned a lot
Really interesting!
I dont know much about Portuguese culture but its interesting look at how different their language sounds from Spanish for being so closely related
To my ear, Portuguese from portugal sounds similar to western eu languages like French and English
Whereas Spanish from Spain sounds more similar southern eu languages like Italian and Greek
Might have to do with which cultures influenced them more
Many words are very similar, and both derived from latin.
Medieval Spanish used to share more sounds with Portuguese than current Spanish, but Spanish evolved in a way (simplification) while I think Portuguese evolved the other way (adding more sounds)
El español y el portugués tienen las mismas mezclas, tienen las mismas influencias... Mira un libro de historia ...
@@leovigildo9706 Se refiere principalmente a las vocales. En español se simplificaron hasta las 5 actuales, y en portugues hay mas vocales (8 pronunciadas, creo, aunque escritas se distinguen las mismas 5 y las otras por la cedilla)
Portugal and Spain are not that closely related. Only since the XX century was there a time of relative peace. For most of the rest, Spain, or Castille-Aragon rather, was perceived as enemies (and acted as such), which created a sense of being islanders for the Portuguese. Many famous Portuguese thinkers have stated this (Lourenço, Saraiva, etc)
I'm from Portugal and i do eat dinner at 7:30pm rather than 9pm.
Ok but you're weird lmao pretty much everyone under 60 has dinner from 8-10pm
How old are you?
I'm under 30 years old (28). I just see no point on eating the last big meal of the day that late when the rest of the world eats dinner way before 9pm and even earlier than i do. And before you all ask me what time i go to bed, i can tell you i always go to bed after midnight.
@@34cvc 7h00-8h00 ok but 10h00??
First time I find someone who does the same thing aleluia I'm not the only one
Thank you!
Great contrasts Paul, but if I smash my like button I won’t be able to like any more of your videos. So I just tapped it 😊
I never thought about the formality thing, I thought Portugal was on the same level than Spain. Also I'm realizing how much informal is Spain for the rest of Europe 😅 I'm also amazed by the exclamation mark after the 9.30 pm dinner, that's sooo normal here 😅 and it could be even later hehe
Portugal também é informal como a Espanha. As pessoas novas tratam os estranhos informalmente e muitos estranhos até mais velhos também. As únicas formalidades é com diferenças muito grandes de idade e situações profissionais. (Escrevi em português porque imagino que consigas entender) Força irmão ibérico
@@andreribeiro521 Eu sou de Argentina kk mas sim entendi tudo!
@@andreribeiro521 cala te e não fala m3rda. Em Espanha eles usam tu até em embalagens e anúncios do governo isso é IMPENSÁVEL em Portugal, somos formais para tudo que não seja pessoal.
@@LHollan Desculpa mas isso não é verdade nem um pouco. Se calhar já foi, mas agora certamente não é. Tudo o que é pessoas da minha faixa etária sejam conhecidos, amigos, desconhecidos ou até pessoas dde graus hierarquicos superiores mais novos tratam-se por tu. Isso é factual e generalizado, não sei em que parte de cascais é que vives, mas as únicas alturas em que me tratam por você é quando me querem impinjir alguma coisa ou se trata de pessoas de idade. Se não for assim na tua zona tenho pena mas não me digas que estou a falar merda quando é o meu ambiente de português há mais de duas décadas
@@andreribeiro521 jovens tratam se como quiserem até em França, mas na vida adulta toda a gente é formal em empresas, reuniões etc, mas para além disso a grande maioria das publicidades de TV usam “você” e suas formas pronominais! Todos os produtos que compras usam você e formas nominais nos rótulos e modo de utilização. Diz me quando foste num supermercado e o rótulo de um produto usava “tu”?! E sim nos países hispânicos até em rótulos de produtos eles usam tu, são uma sociedade infinitamente mais informal.
Iberian force 🇵🇹🇪🇸 💙
Very good video! About lunch and dinner times in Spain I agree the fact that we are not in the right time zone (Greenwich meridian passes 100 Kms east of Zaragoza!) But what has been more determining in changing the habit and eating at 2pm instead of 12pm was the 1930s crisis. Those days only the man in the house worked and the economical crisis made works scares and paychecks low so the head of the family needed 2 jobs, one in the morning 8am-2pm and another one after 3pm. So the family had to move their eating habits to wait for the "boss"... And siesta is not that Spanish, my grandfathers used to siesta 20 mins at lunchtime everyday and they never went out of their alpin valleys (and much less abroad!). My colleagues when I was in SEAsia also used to have a 15 mins siesta in their cubicle.
I like Portugal very much. One of my favourite country
1.) what is the lexical similarity( measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar.) between Portugese and Spanish
2.) What is the lexical similarity to when languages are considered mutually interchangable?
3.) What are the most lexical similar languages in the world & Europe(with percentile estimates) Thank you.
The lexical similarity is extremely high, he did a video about lexical similarity between all the romance languages in the past on the LangFocus channel and Portuguese and Spanish were the most similar (but a decent bit more similar if it's Brazilian Portuguese as opposed to Portugal).
I speak Spanish at a high level, and personally I understood almost nothing when I visited Portugal and listened to people speak. It might as well have been Russian most of the time. However, if I see it written down I can understand almost all of it, it's just the phonetics that are very different. Spanish is pronounced exactly how it's written (once you know the alphabet), whereas Portuguese is not, which I guess is why it's generally said that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish but Spanish speakers cannot understand Portuguese.
He made a video in his other channel Langfocus about the similarities between both langagues
I think it's risky to believe percentage of lexical similarities is representative to differentiate languages. Linguistic or not, there are many other parameters to take account for.
@@PainterVierax so what to consider to consider how close languages are?
I think lexical similarity is around 90% between SPA and POR. There isn't a magical number beacuse intelligibility comes mostly from pronounciation and there is where the two languages are the farthest from each other, around 60%( I would say). Italian and Spanish are far more mutually intelligible although there is less lexical similarity (80/85%) beacuse their phonetics are almost the same.
From the title I knew there will be something wrong :)
Portugal don't have launch at noon, where did you get that?
Most restaurants only open at 12h30. Usually people launch from 13h to 14h and dinner from 20h to 21h.
Well, different people say different things.
"I knew you would get something wrong" - Believe me, there is no way to post a video and not "get something wrong", because there is always someone who disagrees, always. It doesn't matter what you say. Most of you don't know because you don't do this. You just think what's in your head is correct and that nobody would ever disagree. But believe me, they would.
@@PureAlbania - I couldn't agree more. Some people should be a bit more humble and accept they're wrong instead of lashing out at the person who corrected them.
@@module79l28 Estou muito de acordo.E isso mesmo.
@@PureAlbania hours of meals at Spain are generacally later than in Portugal. I worked a lot of years on a spanish Bank at Lisbon, and some spanish colleagues we work with always be surprised when we go lunch at 12H... for they there was a bit insane
@@josepires2484 Eu diria que a hora de almoço em Portugal ronda as 13h. 12h é cedo para a maior parte das pessoas. Jantar é as 20h e às 21h no verão
You underestimate how much it rains in northern Portugal.
It’s just comparative to northern Spain.
Very good video! Although I wouldn't eat dinner so late in Portugal, more like at 20h.
Very good summary with nice tips for newcomers to the Peninsula who might mistake one for the other. It's not fair that the Portuguese Constitution doesn't allow referenda for the country to return as a Monarchy. I wonder under whose decree...
Cant wait for all the portuguese commenters to say "no we dont speak Spanish stop mixing us up with Spain"
It's true, though
Don't mix us but we understand Spanish perfectly. They don't understand Portuguese.
@@PureAlbania Galicians do.
@@SiRcErOn_YuLmEr True :)
Still waiting.
Seems like the interesting comparison might be between linguistic variations within Portuguese and the same within Castillian, rather than between the two countries. Or at least in addition.
I am Spanish, Galego and Celt......What is rarely spoken about is Galicia's Celtic heritage which is unique on the Iberian peninsula.
As someone who knows Spain very well and Portugal not really at all, I was surprised to learn that the Portuguese eat lunch at noon! I was also surprised that Portugal is considered more formal than Spain.
You can stop being surprised because people who eat lunch at noon here are the exception, not the norm. I don't know where he got that idea from. The earlier I've seen people lunch is around 12:30h and it's usually construction workers who have a shorter lunch period. The large majority of people lunch past 1 o'clock and some even at around 2 o'clock.
@@module79l28 Okay, so it is more like Spain then.
@@robthetraveler1099 in Portugal like in the rest of Europe we eat between 12h and 13h. In Spain the normal os after 15h
@@frapiment6239 Nem em Portugal nem no resto da Europa,se come das 12 as13 ,mas sim a partir das 13 .Fora uma excepção,claro.
@@mariaglorica9435 o almoço inicia-se em Portugal as 12h00 e o mais tarde que se costuma iniciar essa refeição ė as 13h30. Claro que o fim já vai depender.
I'm spanish and I don't care if someone sees spain and portugal the same, we are like bros, at least in spain, we have hate for france and for certain autonomies in spain, but we never hate portugal, I feel like they are just an alternative spain, and we are an alternative portugal
Yes, people in Spain generally hate Italy and France according to my personal experience.
Sevilla really looks so nice to live in ❤
As a portuguese, I am contractually obliged to mention Aljubarrota whenever anyone compares Spain and Portugal, so... how do you like our bread Castillans uh? Come and get some!
Now that that is out of the way, I love Spain. I fell in love with Salamanca when I first visited during Easter. Then Santiago de Compostela in Galicia (which felt oddly like I was in Portugal). I love the wide streets and cosmopolitan feel of Madrid! Love from across the border!
6:52 What is the building from the picture?
Royal Palace, Madrid
In Galicia there's a movement for unification with parts of Portugal it's called portugalicia. Bosque of the oldest indigenous group and language spoken in the Iberian Coast peninsula Catalan is extremely different and valenciana is similar it's a language based off it mixed with old Celtic because the Celts were once rulers of a lot of what is now community of Valencia in castiliano is the language everyone speaks and they think it's called Spanish in the world its not its castiliano
My grand mother on my mother's side was Spanish and my grand father Portuguese. In both my mom's and my father's ancestry lines there are multiple "Iberian" marriages, from Algarve to Cataluña, from the Basque to Galicia, from Estremadura to Andalusia, etc. It is very "awe'wkward" 😁living with all these cultures within me and we keep close contact with each other which makes it a continuous cultural cauldron. DNA results also provided me with North Affrican - Moroccan genes and Ashkenazi blood. So what am I?... an Iberian.
Im spanish, i never study portuguese, but we can read portuguise without problem, i will say, we understand 99% reading portuguese, but listening is diferent cause they have an accent , but still we understand i will say 85% by listening or even more, we are brothers, we are really almost the same
The time zone oddity of Spain does now make it clearer why things are done "later" in the day - seeing midday is 2:30 than the usual 12 or so I see why it isn't as unnusual to eat dinner in just 7 hours after midday.
Great video. I would love to have videos about Caucasus nations (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan). I come from Georgia and it would be really interesting to introduce these countries with their unique cultures.
food is quite different too
I can say that the spanish protect very well their traditions, we portuguese in should sometimes speak more about some things. We feel in all portugal (also in madeira /azores), portuguese, in spain it's not the same. In general the portuguese are much friendlier. We like to help. And we like to speak and learn other languages. We adapt to other cultures. Foreign films/series in Portugal are heard with the original voice
PORTUGUESE people lean more to white, people we don't, we are proud Latin, here in USA
Portugal has always been an English colony
It absolutely gets as hot in Portugal, in fact the maximum record temperatures of Spain and Portugal are the same
I’m Filipino living in Portugal for 13 years now and visited Spain several time specially in Galicia coz I live in Braga northern part of Portugal and I will say both countries are good place to live
Despite all these differences much more is what unites than what separates us viva Portugal, viva a Espanha.
Portugal is bigger than Benelux combined by the way.
I must admit I had my pitchfork ready but... that was a pretty accurate video.
Great video as always
It’s mostly accurate, except for the lunch times (as a portuguese person, lunch time is usually around 1:30 pm, except for the elderly)
One of the biggest differences i notice is that usually portuguese people have a much easier time talking to a stranger than a spanierd has. I think that, in general, portuguese have better english than the spanish, and it’s also much easier for a portuguese to understand spanish than for a spanierd to undrrstand portuguese.
Also despite there being many more countries that speak spanish in south America than countries that speak portuguese, there are more portuguese speakers in south America than spanish ones
Tão diferentes e tão iguais.
As a portuguese I think that we're pretty similar in terms of culture and appearance
A small correction, lunch time in Portugal is not at 12 pm, but rather half an hour or an hour later. 12 pm maybe with our grand parents and in the countryside, but not now anymore.
Spain as a 'fiesta' and high energy way of communicating and music, ( in general ! ) whereas Portugal, the national music is slow and introspective, as well as it is generally calmer.
I am portuguese and i like my country 🇵🇹
E eu gosto do seu país con quen estamos a partilhar ista península que e o noso lar.
Hello. You forgot to mention that in Spain there are two different time slots as well. In the Canary Islands there is one hour less than in the peninsula. You should also mention that unlike Spain in Portugal there is unfortunately a law in its constitution that prohibits the creation of independence parties with their own identity as there was in Madeira in the 70's. Now it is forbidden to create nationalist movements in Portugal. Spain and Portugal are two great countries that should go hand in hand, as has been shown with the Iberian energy exception, where the two united countries have achieved improvements for both countries. Always united hand in hand we are stronger than if we turn our backs 🇪🇦♥️🇵🇹
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The Canary Islands timezone is on the screen during that part of the video (because I added it during the editing process, after I had finished filming).
As a madeira citezen i dont agree in relation the independent parties.