5 Things You Didn't Know About Portuguese

Portuguese is a Romance language, spoken by ~260 million people, most of whom live in... Brazil! Interestingly enough, Portuguese has official status also in Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Macau, São Tomé and Príncipe & Mozambique. Can you guess why that is? The answer is colonization.

Portuguese is such a beautiful and rich language, find out some fun fact about it in this video.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Portuguese
1:31 Fun Fact #1: What are Portuguese speakers called?
2:00 Fun Fact #2: Is Portuguese a kind of Spanish?
2:50 Fun Fact #3: Portuguese responses to questions
3:25 Fun Fact #4: Saudades
4:12 Fun Fact #5: Nasal vowels