This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.Portuguese (: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a of the originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau. Portuguese-speaking people or nations are known as (lusófono). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology.With approximately 260 million native speakers and 35 million second language speakers, Portuguese has approximately 300 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the fifth-most spoken native language, the third-most spoken European language in the world in terms of native speakers and the second-most spoken Romance language in the world, surpassed only by Spanish. Being the most widely spoken language in South America and the most-spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere, it is also the second-most spoken language, after Spanish, in Latin America, one of the 10 most spoken languages in Africa, and an official language of the European Union, , the Organization of American States, the , the African Union, and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, an international organization made up of all of the world’s officially nations. In 1997, a comprehensive academic study ranked Portuguese as one of the 10 most influential languages in the world.When the Romans arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 216 BC, they brought with them the , from which all Romance languages are descended. The language was spread by Roman soldiers, settlers, and merchants, who built Roman cities mostly near the settlements of previous Celtic civilizat……

James:Meu nome é James e eu sou tradutor independente. – I'm James and I'm a freelance translator.I'm James and Translate Portuguese to Spanish I'm a freelance translator.I translate audio and video files from Portuguese and Spanish into English.Olá a todos – só queria fazer algumas perguntas sobre o trabalho de amanhã… – Hi everyone – I just wanted to ask a few questions about the work for tomorrow…Most of my work is related to sports or medicine. I typically log on in the morning and check my emails. I then get onto translating any files that I have pencilled in for that day.I keep a personal tracker, just so that I can keep an eye on deadlines for the day. If any urgent requests come in, I can generally fit them in around what I already Translate Portuguese to Spanish have pencilled.One of my specialisms is audio-visual translation, which means working on things like voiceover and subtitled translations.Olá, bom dia. Como tudo vai? – Hi, good morning. How’s it going?As a big football fan, one of the most exciting projects I've worked on was for FIFA and the 2018 Translate Portuguese to Spanish World Cup, where I translated Brazilian,Portuguese and Spanish players' interviews into English.Now I often transcribe interviews that players do with journalists before and after their games, and these go up on the UEFA website. I've also done this for the women's Euro 2022 tournament.The main positive of being a freelance translator is that it gives me the flexibility to choose my hours, where I work and the type of jobs that I want to do. As a freelancer, you find clients yourself, as opposed to working in-house for a company for a salary. I think the biggest challenge as a freelancer is maintaining a steady work flow.…ou também podemos fazer o passe atrás. – …or we can also pass it back.I actually studied French and Spanish, both at secondary school and university, and whilst at university they offered a course to use your Spanish skills to convert to Portuguese. I went to Spain for my year abroad as part of my course and ended up spending some time in Portugal, which really helped me to immerse myself in the l……

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are:Spanish (489 million): the official language in Spain and most of Central and South AmericaFrench (321 million): official in 29 countriesPortuguese (240 million): official in Portugal, Brazil and Italian (67 million): official in Italy, Vatican City, San Marino, Switzerland; minority language in Croatia; regional in Slovenia (Istria) and Brazil (Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo and Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul)Romanian (30 million): official in Romania and MoldovaThe Romance languages spread throughout the globe owing to the period of beginning in the 15th century; there are more than 900 million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa. Portuguese, French and Spanish also have many non-native speakers and are in widespread use as lingua francas. There are also numerous Romance languages and dialects.The term derives from the Vulgar Latin adverb romanice, “in Roman”, derived from romanicus: for instance, in the expression romanice loqui, “to speak in Roman” (that is, the Latin vernacular), contrasted with latine loqui, “to speak in Latin” (Medieval Latin, the version of the language used in writing and formal contexts or as a lingua franca), and with barbarice loqui, “to speak in Barbarian” (the non-Latin languages of the peoples living outside the Roman Empire). From this adverb the noun romance originated, which applied initially to anything written romanice, or “in the Roman vernacular”.Most of the Romance-speaking area in Europe has traditionally been a dialect continuum, where the speech variety of a location differs only slightly from that of a neighboring location, but over a longer distance these differences can accumulate to the point where two remote locations speak what may be unambiguously characterized as separate languages. This makes drawing language boundaries difficult, and as such t……