I’m Brazilian and a beginner in Spanish, and I’ve been feeling something kinda weird. When I do Anki, a lot of new words feel obvious to me because of Portuguese. I don’t mean false cognates, just words that are similar enough that I understand them by instinct.
So now I keep wondering if I actually learned the word or if I just guessed it because it looks like my own language. I pronounce them in Spanish, but sometimes it feels like I’m just copying sounds and not really absorbing anything. Half the time I don’t even know if I should mark the card right or wrong.
Same thing happens with immersion too. I understand almost everything in a lot of Spanish content, especially Latin American stuff, but it feels like I’m understanding more because of Portuguese than because I truly learned Spanish.
Spain Spanish is the one I struggle with the most, so I started watching more content from there.
Anyone who learned a similar language ever deal with this? Any advice?