Do you like Portuguese and you would like to learn it, but you are demotivated? Do you need some incentive, so that you may begin to study it? Join us and check our seven reasons why to learn Portuguese! We are sure that after you read them, you are going to feel more motivated to begin your studies!
1. It is one of the most spoken languages in the world
Portuguese is the official language of eight countries, they are: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Príncipe, not mentioning that it is also spoken in the countries of Macau and Gao, located in Asia. It has more than 230 million speakers, and it has been one of ten most spoken languages in the world.
2. It is an economic advantage
The Portuguese language is related the global economy. Brazil is one of the largest economies in the world, for example. There are many international companies there. It is a world’ s top exporter of products such as coffee, sugar and soybeans and it is a large partner of the United States of America, many american companies are present in Brazil.
3. It is a diplomatic language
It also has its diplomatic importance. It is one of the languages of the European Union, for example, also of Mercosul, of the Organization of American States and the Organization of Ibero-American States and the Union of South America Nations.
4. It opens professional doors
It permits you to work in practically all the existing professional areas, this includes Finance, Hospitality, Information Sciences, Linguistics, Arts, Media, Law, and so forth, since as we said above, Brazil has a large economy, and the chances of finding a job there are also big, not mentioning the opportunities to work in the other countries where Portugues is the official, or one of the most important languages.
5. It is intrinsically connected to art
Do you like art? So here is another motive for you learn Portuguese. The Portuguese language embraces a rich set of cultural aspects, and one of the main of them is the music. Have you ever heard of Bossa-nova or Samba? And Fado? If you haven’ t, you should check it out.
Other aspect of it is the literature, which is indeed large and beautiful. If you have never heard of the epic poem “The Lusiads” written by the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, you must have already heard of the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho or the Portuguese one, José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
6. It eases your life
Other motive is that it is a way to facilitate your life, if you will travel to either Brazil or Portugal, or any of those other countries that have the Portuguese language as their mother tongue that we have already mentioned here. It is a way more interesting to go to buy something and try to speak some of the language of the foreign country where you are, than looking for someone who speaks your idiom all the time, so that you can do the things you wish or need. It is also a mean to integrate yourself to the people and to the place themselves, surely many opportunities will come up to you, if you speak the local language abroad, than if you insist in wanting people to understand yours.
7. You may live in a new country
Living in Brazil – or in Portugal or in the other countries that have Portuguese speakers – is our (because there are many others) last reason for you learn Portuguese. Imagine a tropical scape, so would you not like to be there righ now? Consider this idea! Brazil has 7,000 km of beach, pick your choice and relax!
Brazil and the other Portuguese speakers countries are very multicultural, this means you are indeed supposed to have a good time at those places. You will rather at first get a nice smile, and thus a warm welcoming, than a “leave our place, our contry is ours!” reception. In Brazil, for example, we risk to say that there are people from nearly all nationatilies in the world, and people there are used to it, what means that respect is something that you should expect there. Most of Brazilians are known to be friendly and this assures your stay in Brazil is not supposed to be a waste of time.
So these are our seven reasons why to learn Portuguese! Have you liked? So what are you waiting for? Begin it right now!
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