the public universal fredy :tblverified: on Nostr: with the very wise credentials of someone who doesn't know either language, i think ...

with the very wise credentials of someone who doesn't know either language, i think french is overrated in "romance language that's hard for english speakers to read" and portuguese is underrated. sure, french has a bunch of silent letters, but english has silent letters too. english is basically a dialect of french. portuguese, though, the spelling *mostly* looks phonetic but then there are digraphs and diacritics that you just have no frame of reference for