Portugal has the better football team between the two 🇵🇹

In Portugal people don't have dinner at 9 pm. I'm Portuguese btw

portugal's homogeneous nature can be explained by the fact that It is just another autonomous community of Spain

Thank you!

I'm Polish but I've been several times in Portugal and in Spain and the thing thst stood out to me most is that the Portuguese are way better at languages and generally speak fluently at least one foreign language while the Spaniards not so much and they often struggle to communicate with non-Spanish speaking foreigners. 😉

Learned a lot

Unfortunalely, there's much information missing. Portugal has territorial tensions which are omitted on this video. The people of Valença do Minho, Monção, Melgaço and Barrancos want to be Spanish and they rally their towns in favour of leaving Portugal to join Spain. It is something the Portuguese authorities keep silent and the media refuse to talk about.

There is also another language spoken in Portugal. It is Barranquenho. It's not really a language by itself. It is the Castilian with Andalusian accent spoken in Barrancos. The Portuguese euphemistacally call Barranquenho a language in order not to admit that the people of Barrancos prefer Castilian to Portuguese.

Whilst Spain is the European country with the fewest people thinking that their country is the best, the Portuguese, on the other hand, are some of the most nationalistic people.

By the comments of the two nationalities, you can notice how the comments of the Spaniards about Portugal are positive or al least not negative, whereas the comments of the Portuguese only show hate, resentment and bias against the Spaniards.

The Portuguese are stuck in their self called glorious past going back to 5 centuries ago, while the Spaniards enjoy the present and look forward.

Spain is the European Union country with the lowest emigration rate at only 3% of the whole Spanish population. In the meantime, Portugal has the second highest emigration rate in the European Union at 25%, Spain being the second EU country hosting Portuguese immigrants.

Everybody smokes in Spain. Not so many in Portugal.

In reality Mirandese is not realy used anymore, thou it is teached as a scholl subject in Miranda do Douro, a small region on the northeast headge of Portugal. A well known diff between portuguese and spanish is spanish people speak too loud. As for that matter (and others), catalans dont behave like spanish, i was amazed to notice it the first time i went to Catalonia. U understood portugues/spanish differences realy well, great video, thanks for it. Just one "not that good" point: in Portugal most of us have dinner between 20 and 20:30 at home, or between 20 and 21:30 if we go out.

Dinner time in Portugal start at 07h00.

I'm always surprised by the accuracy of your videos. For a moment I thought you wouldn't mention the mirandese and astur-leonese language. Not only you did, but noted its relation, you're a pro!
I'm originally from a neighboring area of Portugal. There's even a town splitted in two by the border. People there speak and mix both languages, having their own "portuñol" variety. I first had my ID to go shopping to Portugal when I was a kid (before UE free movement was stablish), and I go from time to time. Maybe because of that I don't feel like being "totally abroad" when I go to Portugal. It's more like visiting a close relative.
Portuguese are indeed more proficient in English, probably thanks to their lack of doubbing. I also feel that Portugal is a bit more culturally cohesive from north to south (islands like Madeira appart), while Spain has deeper differences between it's regions (maybe a Portuguese won't agree, idk).

We don't work later than anyone else in the world. We start working at 8 am, as any other country. We actually wake up earlier considering the sunrise. Also lunch is rarely later than 3 pm. On the other hand it is not that siesta depends on your job, we have way less naps than most of the European countries (statistics are there). That's misinformation.

I never thought about the formality thing, I thought Portugal was on the same level than Spain. Also I'm realizing how much informal is Spain for the rest of Europe 😅 I'm also amazed by the exclamation mark after the 9.30 pm dinner, that's sooo normal here 😅 and it could be even later hehe

Tão diferentes e tão iguais.

Very proud to see this video as a portuguese, one thing i note is that we make an effort to speak spanish when theyre here but not the other way around, another thing is that theyre louder than us

Don't be like Spain, learn from history don't repeat it

A lot of Portuguese people hate Brazilians, but I don't know if Spanish people have the same feeling towards the Spaniards from America.

Thanks for posting Paul!

Portugal is bigger than Benelux combined by the way.

So many people think it's the same country…

I learned that Portugal is NOT a monarchy!

I dont know much about Portuguese culture but its interesting look at how different their language sounds from Spanish for being so closely related
To my ear, Portuguese from portugal sounds similar to western eu languages like French and English
Whereas Spanish from Spain sounds more similar southern eu languages like Italian and Greek
Might have to do with which cultures influenced them more

I loved it. I live in Galicia, about 20km from the mountainous border. There is a feeling of continuity, in a linguistic, architectural, and landscape sense. However, the northern Portuguese are faithful to their earlier lunchtime, which is, in a way, the only real shock you would experience upon crossing. Well, that, and the automatic text message your phone recieves informing you about the roaming conditions.

I’m Portuguese-born, American-raised, with some Castilian ancestry and I love both countries very much but I think Spain is slightly better as it has a lot more options and conveniences……also Spain earns more than Portugal when it comes to income. To each their own opinion. This is mine.

Great contrasts Paul, but if I smash my like button I won’t be able to like any more of your videos. So I just tapped it 😊

The time zone oddity of Spain does now make it clearer why things are done "later" in the day — seeing midday is 2:30 than the usual 12 or so I see why it isn't as unnusual to eat dinner in just 7 hours after midday.

Seems like the interesting comparison might be between linguistic variations within Portuguese and the same within Castillian, rather than between the two countries. Or at least in addition.

I find Portugal to be much friendlier, so it surprised me that you characterized it as formal (although Portugal does put a "the" in front of senhor and senhora, so I guess that's being more formal). That said: I agree with Rick Steves, who once said, "if you feel that in Spain you can't do anything right, in Portugal you'll feel like you can't do anything wrong." Portugal has much better wine, too, and not just because of Port. There's also Madeira. And the great Portuguese rosé wines. And, maybe best of all, Portuguese vinho verde, a nicely tart white wine. But I do understand that "better wine" is an extremely subjective metric.

As someone who is both I love both lol

Just one comment. Everything was quite right besides dinner time. In Portugal 🇵🇹 we usually eat at 8pm or 8.30 pm. Congratulations for your good work.

Thanks Paul. I've enjoyed this video!

As someone who knows Spain very well and Portugal not really at all, I was surprised to learn that the Portuguese eat lunch at noon! I was also surprised that Portugal is considered more formal than Spain.

2:30 Mirandese is NOT official at the regional — or even local — level. It is only a "recognised" and "protected" language. Its status is more akin to Astur-leonone and Aragonese.
The word "official" is never used in the law that recognised the linguistic rights of the Mirandese-speaking community. Local documents are not required to be written in Mirandese (unlike regional documents from the government of Catalonia, which are required to be written in Catalan).

You wouldn't usually refer to the dictatorship as a republic… As a matter of fact, the dictator abolished the democratic republic in 1939…

From the title I knew there will be something wrong 🙂
Portugal don't have launch at noon, where did you get that?
Most restaurants only open at 12h30. Usually people launch from 13h to 14h and dinner from 20h to 21h.

Based South European countries 🇬🇷🇮🇹🇹🇷🇪🇦🇵🇹🗿

Somos diferentemente iguais! 😉

great video, always well informed! from my perspective I would say most Portuguese would have dinner before 9 when eating at home. As for the Portuguese being more formal, it’s true however the use of that formal language is also heavily associated with politeness towards any stranger and older people…

Here in Brazil, "already turned/turning around the Cape of Good Hope'" means somebody who already exceeded the life expectancy (75 years old or more.)

And 'thanks" to YouTube, European Portuguese has been changing due to Brazil's YouTubers influence.

This was so very educational.
Thank you so very much Paul

I thought Occitan was more closely related to French?

I noticed that portugese are generally more proficient in english than spanish. I'd say it's partly due to the lack of dubbing in cinemas and tv.

I noticed that the portugese are more pro

Being in both, portogese are much nicer and friendlier than spanish people who are snobs and not willing to talk to you if you don't speak Spanish, most notably in Barcelona.

Great video as usual, Paul, thank you.

I love both Spain and Portugal. So similar and so different at the same time.
I have a very slight preference for Spain because – as an Italian native – I find Spanish easier to learn than Portuguese and because I do prefer the Mediterranean sea over the Atlantic ocean (or indeed any ocean) for my holidays.
Both countries are immensely rich in places to visit and the two peoples, although different, are both lovely.