Thread 212348813

Why is Portuguese so much easier to understand than Spanish, despite being linguistically more complex?

>>212348813 (OP)
And spanish speakers have difficulties to understand portuguese

>>212350260
What do you think this means?

>>212350323
Spanish phonology is simpler than portuguese one, so they don't get the phonologic nuances present on portuguese.

But on written language, spanish speakers have less difficulties to understand.