Aaaaaaaaaaaah(bacaxí)!
When it comes to learning languages, there are enough similarities between Spanish and Portuguese that I’m never really impressed when a native Spanish speaker tells me they speak Portuguese (or vice versa). My attitude tends to be “big deal – compared to English, they’re practically the same language anyway”. But when there are so many similarities, I do rather sympathise when a Portuguese word comes along that is just nothing like its Spanish counterpart.
Take this prickly customer:
I love pineapple! You know the French almost call this fruit bananas... (they say "Ananas").
