ive been told every time that i even offer light pushback on criticsm against socialist countries in the global south that these are imperialist countries that commit atrocities and im being a total hypocrite by 'supporting' them and that most socialists in global south actually oppose and hate these countries.
is this just bad-faith liberal bullshit? how would one even respond to that?
In retrospect, I think most of the Portuguese I was exposed to at the time was Brazilian teenagers with very casual relationships to spelling and grammar. Proooobably didn't help.
And as you guessed, yeah, I found Italian pretty easy to understand.
like portuguese speakers have a complicated relantionship with the grammar stuff because it kinda is an actual class struggle on this language, like poor people receive worse educations and portuguese is a hard language to speak correctly like i still don't understand accentuation at all and i had a pretty good education, so poor people on brazil tend to be the people who speak in the non formal way with simpler grammar and this has been a thing for so long that in the 20s there is actual poetry from people discussing whether the true language is the one on the books or the one spoken by most people
I'll happily give that one to the language spoken by most people.
But yeah, the stuff I learned in a dead language that's kept around for its prestige did not help with it lol.