Asia proved a far harder task than Spain or Brazil. In our preparation, we had assumed those languages would be only a little more difficult than the European ones, although it turned out that they were much harder.
Lmao arrogant idiots. Spanish and Portuguese are not only both Romance languages (and therefore from the same overarching Indo European language branch as English), theyre quite often mutually intelligible to learners after a bit of adjustment. Its quite common for people whose L2 is Spanish to jump into Portuguese for their L3 and attain conversational fluency in less than half the time. You'd have been better off aiming for Farsi as a bridge language to Arabic or Romanian as a bridge to Russian. I'm sure theres also a good bridge to Hungarian and the Uralic group, though I cant think of what. Instead you decided to go from the EASIEST combination to the hardest one because you were too sure of yourself to do basic research
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