What's up guys, my name is Philip Brzeuka. I'm from Brazil and I teach Portuguese on YouTube. I decided to record this video because I've been getting this question all the time. Hey Philip, is it easy to learn Portuguese? I mean, if I know Spanish, because I'm from the US and I've been living in Mexico or whatever in Colombia and I speak Spanish, and I'd like to learn another language. And I'm here to tell you guys that to learn Portuguese, if you know Spanish, it's gonna be so quick. Portuguese can be really similar but can be really different at the same time. It's about what you focus on. I don't know if you've got this feeling, like meeting someone, waiting on the line, and then you hear someone speaking a language that you know, and then he just, oh my gosh, you just go there and start talking to them, and they start to laugh and it's like having a good time. And suddenly you become friends, and it's crazy because that's how it happens. When you're learning a language, there is no limits. I mean, how many times, countless, I've met so many people, just because I heard them speaking English, so I would just approach, hey, what's up, where you guys from? And then we start to speak in English, and oh, I'm from Brazil, I've been learning English. Every opportunity that you have to practice a language, do it. I see so many people wanting to learn Portuguese, and sometimes they don't find the real motivation to learn the reason to learn. And I'm here to tell you guys that learning a language, it's about discipline, motivation, you know, being focused, practicing all the time, and you have to find a reason, like a good reason to learn. So what I was saying before, like meeting people from Brazil, I'd say, if you're here, someone speaking Portuguese, just go there and talk to them. And if you know Spanish, you will understand when the Brazilian talk to you in Portuguese, most of the time, you know, like not like an advanced conversation, because the vocabulary starts to get like really high level, and then the words are not the same, you know. But to speak basics, Portuguese and Spanish is really similar. So that's what I'm telling you guys. So we start learning Portuguese once you know Spanish, it's really fast. So if you're thinking about, I don't know, I want to learn another language, or I met this guy, I met this girl from Brazil, and I want to go there, or I ran to this place in Brazil for, I don't know, a month, and I really liked it. I'd like to learn more about the language. I invite you guys to watch the videos that I have on YouTube. I have a lot of videos there, just teaching you things that you would only learn in Brazil, and all like just by leaving Brazil, you would learn those things, because more, you know, local thing, let's say. So if you use those lines and the words, and that I'm gonna tell you guys, I'm gonna teach you during this video, you know, through the videos, any Brazilian will ask you, oh, you've been living here for a while, right? Because you're using this, and it's no, I just saw in a video, on the video. And that's the point. I mean, when you can practice like this, when you can just use videos to improve your level, and just talk to people, and whatever you learn from the videos, you just talk to them, talk to Brazilians, we Brazilians, we're gonna be so glad, so here you guys, you're speaking in our own language, and you're speaking good. So that's my point. If you want to improve your Portuguese level, if you know Spanish, or even if you know Italian, because you can get like Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese are really similar. I mean, French can be like some things, but I think you have those three like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and you have French here, because it's not that similar, but yeah, you can get some things, and all between them, like, can be connected some way. So my goal with this video is just to tell you guys that it's possible to learn Portuguese, if you know Spanish, or Italian, really quick, you know, just take a look on the videos that I have on YouTube, and you'll learn a lot, you know, take the time, I have a playlist, just giving tips, how to learn a language weaker, you know, not just Portuguese, but any language. Things that I've used to learn Spanish, to learn English as well, like right now, recording this video for me is like, wow, it's like getting out of my comfort zone, because usually I'm just speaking Portuguese. So for most of my followers that we would like, hear me speaking in English, and we say, what, Philip, is that you? But I think this is really good, because once you start to expose yourself, just, all right, I don't record videos in English all the time, but I should record a video in English, because I know so many people that they speak English, they know Spanish, or Italian, and they want to learn Portuguese, and I'm here to tell you guys that it's possible, you know, take a look on the videos, and it doesn't matter if you don't take a look on the videos, but I'm just here to say that if you know Spanish, learning Portuguese is going to be easy, you know, and of course, depending on the method that you're going to use, if you're going to go like grammar rules, the traditional method, it's going to be slow, you know, it's going to be boring as well. So if you like something more, you know, more fun, something that we will learn on the go, you're learning, but you don't feel like you're studying it, you're just learning, just daily, you know, like something that is natural. So that's what the YouTube channel is about, about bringing content that, you know, you would only learn this by living Brazil for a long time, so I'm just going to teach you through the videos, all in Portuguese, I don't speak in English in the video, so at first you will say, oh, this guy speaks so fast in Portuguese, and then after, I don't know, a month, like two months, there's listening, listening all every day, you're going to be like, oh, this guy speaks so slow, or he's speaking just normal, you know, why? That's because your level just improved, you know, that happens with everything, like at first when you start to do something so difficult, but then you just start so easy, I mean, I'm just doing like automatically, just driving your heart, you know, at first you're like thinking about the gears, okay, I have to do this, okay, look left, look right, blah, blah, blah, and then you're doing all of this automatically, and that's exactly what happens when you're learning a language, just, you know, flows, just like this, and of course, if you have a friend who wants to learn Portuguese, and if they know Spanish, or Italian, just recommend the videos to them, you know, because learning with someone, if you have a friend and you can learn with them, it's even better, because you guys can motivate yourself, you know, like it's way better, because when you're just by yourself, sometimes you can feel like really down, you know, like, oh my god, it seems like just me, that's because it's just you, because you have to find someone to practice with you, like making friends, and getting this to be like fun, you know, you have to make something that learning this language is gonna be fun, all right, so that's it guys, so if you want to prove if it's true or not, I mean, I speak Spanish, let's see if I can understand some Portuguese, watch some of my videos and if you understand, just leave a thumb up, all right, and recommend to your friends as well, okay, bye bye!