Native Spanish-speakers: do you understand Portuguese or Italian more easily?

[Ruggery]

Both in equal.

[alnortedelsur]

I don't speak any of those two languages, but I would say that I more or less understand both of them about equal.

[Cristiano viejo]

Lexically Portuguese is undoubtedly closer, but phonetically it is much more debatable.

We dont understand a shit in equal way, does not matter if the person speaks in Portuguese or in Italian.
Written Portuguese is super close, Italian is not.

Today in the work a Portuguese came and he was speaking with us a few minutes. He spoke Spanish PERFECTLY and when I arrived he was talking about Gypsies with one of my cowrokers, saying they are scum and how he hates them etc. Then he started to criticize Chinese, saying some truths that made me cringe, about their hygiene etc. The three laughed a lot, it was nice, and I think his Portuguese accent in his perfect Spanish made possible that his talk was so familiar to me.

[Andullero]

Portuguese, hands down.

[Gredos]

the same as French, I don't understand almost anything

written I guess Portuguese

[Fraisod]

If I look at writing, I understand Portuguese more easily.
But, when I listen to the languages spoken, I find Italian considerably easier to understand for phonetic reasons.

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

as someone who is receptively bilingual ....written portuguese is by far the easier language to understand

[Suinthila]

Brasilian portuguese, especially.

[Tooting Carmen]

If I look at writing, I understand Portuguese more easily.
But, when I listen to the languages spoken, I find Italian considerably easier to understand for phonetic reasons.

That is what I have been arguing too.

[Tooting Carmen]

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