Practical Grammar of the Portuguese Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Students of the Portuguese language are not numerous in England, and it is an exception to find anyone having more than a superficial acquaintance with its beauties and power. This arises, perhaps, from the fact that those' who study it have but one object in view, to facilitate their business while a second reason for its unpopularity may be that it is by many considered a mongrel language. This epithet is certainly often applied to it, but in my Opinion unjustly, and only by those who have no thorough knowledge of its structure and character. The language may abound in nasal sounds which offend the ears of those acquainted with the more musical cadences of Spanish and Italian, but this feature hardly justifies the term mongrel. It is a case of the dog with a bad name. In purity of diction and in affinity to the Latin, Portuguese is in no way inferior, but rather superior.

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