Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by gnclmorais on Saturday April 13, 2019 @10:47AM
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Interesting, I feel like I have the opposite issue. Coming from Portuguese, learning Spanish was a breeze and I can usually surprise French speaking people with “hard” words in my basic French sentences — just because I reached out to a Portuguese word and “frenchyfied” it.
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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by marcosdumay on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:41AM
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Going from native Portuguese, then French, and only then Spanish (yep, I've gone to a crazy school), I got much of the problem the GP was talking about. I don't think I've ever spoken so much French as the time when I was leaning Spanish.
There's something with those two languages in that they interfere badly.
Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by wwweston on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:05AM
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Spanish and Portuguese seem to be unusually close. Studying one helps me with the other.
Portuguese and Japanese on the other hand...
Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by pushpop on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:38AM
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The OP wasn’t talking about Japanese. They were talking about European languages- many of which share a common heritage
Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by saagarjha on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:31PM
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Not all of them do, but the ones mentioned were all very similar Romance languages.
Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by pushpop on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:19AM
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I’m aware not al of them do. This is why I said “many” and not “all”.
There are roughly 3 main groups of European languages: Italic (or Romance as you described it) for Western Europe, Germanic which is predominantly Central Europe, Scandinavian countries and the UK; and Balto-Slavic for Eastern Europe. Generally speaking of course.
However there is still a fair amount of cross pollination even with the Germanic and Italic languages, not to mention shared characteristics (not least of all a shared alphabet) that doesn’t exist with Japonic languages such as, well, Japanese.