What languages should I learn to work in tourism in Portugal? 🇵🇹

I’m a portuguese girl who wants to work in tourism, more specifically in a hotel.

I currently speak Portuguese (native), English (C2), Spanish (B1), French (B1), and a bit of German (A1) and Levantine Arabic (A1).

I think that, in the tourism industry, the main languages that I need to learn here in Portugal other than Portuguese and English are Spanish and French. But what others should I learn too, that would help me find a better job?

I like Chinese and Japanese, but I think their writing scripts are too hard to learn and would need more time than I have. I could learn the spoken languages without learning the script, but that’s not very valued in the context of work.

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u/TubaralhoDoMar — 1 day ago

I want to become a polyglot and work in the tourism industry 🇵🇹

Olá, everyone!

I’m a portuguese girl who loves learning languages, as well as learning about other cultures, and I’m trying to become a polyglot. In the future, I want to work in a hotel here in Porto or in other parts of Portugal.

I’m a native Portuguese speaker, and I also speak English (C2), a bit of Spanish (B1), French (B1), and German (A1). My goal is to learn these languages and speak and write them fluently. I heard that, if you speak Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French fluently, you can easily get a job working at a hotel and get a decent pay and a stable job. I don’t need to be rich, I just want to work at a job where I can learn and speak different languages, while living near my family.

Does anyone here work at a hotel, or in the tourism industry? Do you think having PT, EN, ES and FR is enough, or should I also improve my German?

What has been your experience working in tourism and learning languages?

Is being a polyglot enough to work at a hotel, or do you think I need to also do a professional course?

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u/TubaralhoDoMar — 1 day ago

A educação bilingue é o futuro?

Olá a todos. Eu sou uma jóvem portuguesa que adora aprender línguas. No entanto, cresci numa família monolingue, e só comecei a aprender inglês por volta dos 8 anos. Agora tenho o nível C2 a inglês, assim como B1 a Espanhol e Francês, e A1 a Alemão.

Eu tenho andado a pesquisar sobre educação bilingue, como é a o caso por exemplo em Espanha e no País de Gales.

Em Espanha, na Catalunha, País Basco e Galiza, há muitas escolas públicas bilingues, em que os alunos aprender história, ciencias e geografia nas línguas cooficiais (como o catalão, galego, basco, e aranês). O mesmo acontece no País de Gales, onde muitos alunos estudam maioritariamente na língua galesa.

Aqui em Portugal, até recentemente, as únicas escolas que ofereciam educação bilingue eram colégios privados bastante caros, tal como o CLIP e o Colégio Alemão.

Mas porque é que só os alunos abastados é que têm direito à educação bilingue? Porque não oferecer educação bilingue nas escolas públicas também?

Em muitos países fora da Europa, eles conseguem que muitas crianças aprendam inglês e estudem em inglês durante a primária, secundário e universidade. Por exemplo, uma criança nigeriana que só fale Igbo em casa, anda numa escola onde se usa somente o inglês, e consegue tirar boas notas.

Eu acho sinceramente que Portugal deveria investir na oferta de educação bilingue pública aqui no país, especialmente no Porto, Lisboa e Madeira, que têm pessoas de vários backgrounds linguísticos e recebem muito turismo internacional.

Porque não haver uma escola como o CLIP mas pública e gratuita?

Pessoalmente, eu acho que a educação bilingue é o futuro.

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u/TubaralhoDoMar — 1 day ago

Traditional clothes from Castro Laboreiro, Portugal 🇵🇹

Castro Laboreiro is a border region in the Gerês Mountains in Northern Portugal. Due to the harsh winters, its people used to practice transhumance. They would live in “brandas” (summer villages) in the plateau during the summer and in winter they would move to the inverneiras (winter villages), in the valleys. They took all the villagers, the cows, goats, chickens, sheep, cats and dogs with them when they moved from the summer villages to the winter villages.

The people of Castro Laboreiro used to practice endogamy. There were several clans: the Camarros, the Gorriões, the Truitinhas and the Rabudos, and each of these clans practiced endogamy — they could only marry someone from the same clan. People hated people from the other cland and didn’t even talk to them. My family is descended from Gorriões.

Now, however, the clans are gone and everyone is free to marry each other. But due to rural exodus and emmigration, there are very few young people in Castro Laboreiro now. The school closed due to lack of children. And the old people are dying.

They also had their own dialect, the Castrejo dialect, which is now dying because there are no children being born in the villages of Castro Laboreiro.

They have their own dog breed, the dog of Castro Laboreiro, a herd guardian dog used to defend the herds from wolves. They also have wild horses called “Garranos”.

Also, the people of Castro Laboreiro are known as “black mouth”, because it is said that they have a black mouth, like the castro laboreiro dog, which has a black mouth due to being closely related to the iberian wolves.

If you ever come to Portugal, you can visit Castro Laboreiro, and do one of the nature activities with Montes de Laboreiro, who organizes nature tourism.

I did canyoning there once and a walk through the mountains.

u/TubaralhoDoMar — 2 days ago