Re: Douro wine region, Douro river trip tour, Port wine wineries visiting.

"Negodki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Robert A.M. van Lopik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From your address I presume you're Italian, so you would be able to
> > read/understand Portuguese.
>
> ??? The native language of Italians is Italian, not Portuguese! Although
> both are derived from Latin, they are no more similar to one another than
> English and German. To illustrate the immense difference, let's take
Mario's
> question:
>
> English: Which cities should I visit?
>
> German: Welche Städte sollte ich besichtigen?
>
> Italian: Quali cittā dovrei visitare?
>
> Portuguese: Que cidades devo eu visitar?
>
Of course I know they speak Italian in Italy. I only said he would be alble
to _understand_ .... In
fact, you illustrate my point. Your two sentences are sufficiently similiar
to be understandable for the other, contrary to your German example.

On international conferences I always noticed that Italians and Portuguese
seem to understand each other quite well.

ciao
rob van lopik



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