Spanish and Portuguese

How similar are Spanish and Portuguese and how easy or hard would it be for a Spanish 2nd language learner to learn Portuguese. Very curious, as I am interested in learning Portuguese sometime in the future and I am taking Spanish classes in school, and I'd say I'm pretty good at it for an American at least

It is close, also close pt is really close to italian. some of the connectors and words are kinda the same.

As a portuguese speaker I can understand maybe like 75% of written spanish, spoken spanish is a lot harder to catch, but you can still carry a conversation depending on if the other person talks slowly enough. Unfortunately in Brazil we don't learn much spanish (at least I haven't), which is a real pity because it would bring us that much closer to the countries around us.

Portuguese has more vowel phonemes, we have like 15 vowels phonemes, spanish has 5

so it's easier for us to understand them, for them it's hard to understand us

they can understand brazilian portuguese easier bcuz BR-PT is a syllable timed language

portugal portuguese is harder for them to understand because it's a stress-timed language like english

Those who know Portuguese can understand more Spanish than those who know Spanish can understand Portuguese, but spoken Spanish is more difficult to understand for those who know Portuguese because the natives speak very FUCKING FAST like rap god.

also brazilians don't speak portuguese properly, they don't like to use the verbs conjugations

for example in spanish "we go to school" is: vamos a la escuela
in properly spoken portuguese it'd be: vamos à escola

most brazilians would say: "a gente vai à escola"

most spanish would never know that "a gente" means "we" in portuguese so they wouldn't understand this sentence, but we would understand their "vamos a la escuela"

I can catch a few words but not enough to fully understand

I can speak from personal experience: I'm not a native Spanish or Portuguese speaker, but I've been taking Spanish at school for about 4 years now. In 2021, I discovered Brazilian Valorant, and was interested in learning Portuguese (noyn :D). I haven't been doing any Duolingo/language programs recently but written Portuguese is pretty easy to understand with basic Spanish knowledge.

most ppl I know from U.S including my boss used to say that Portuguese is hard to learn as fuck