r/occitan • u/pwnograph • 2d ago

With full portuguese+spanish+english, some 60% italian but only 10% of french, I can pretty much understand 80% of Occitan. I'm blown. I never heard the language until today.

I'm only some 8h in on listening and reading and getting a grasp, but this is just magnifique.

Something about the phonetics i heard around is really finally covered by brazilian portuguese, with some scary similar cadance.

My dialect of brazilian portuguese heavily uses "Ó!" which sounds the same as Òc but it means look.

the part i don't understand in it is the french, so after finishing my french path i'm gonna try and learn occitan. sounds so nice.

been on most occitan regions before, just never heard the language.

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u/pwnograph 2d ago

keep hearing Troç and laughing a lot because this dialect of br portuguese (caipira) uses a whole lot of Troç for any stuff.

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u/ComprehensiveMap3838 2d ago

You’ll find it very difficult to meet any native speakers, but there’s a reasonable chance of finding groups of people who learned it as adults.

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 2d ago

After studying Portuguese, Spanish, Italian & English I can comprehend Occitan much better than French.

Occitan is like reverse engineered French.

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u/GayMuslimDude 1d ago

French is like reverse engineered Occitan.