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I know there are patron saints of countries, regions, and myriad other things, but are there patron saints of languages? I’ve been studying Portuguese for about 3 1/2 years now and I’ve recently begun studying French. Is there a patron saint of Portuguese and/or French?
 
France has a whole list of patron saints.

Our Lady of the Assumption, saint Joan of Arc, saint Therese of Lisieux, saint Michel, saint Martin of Tours, saint Denis and saint Louis are the main ones.
 
True, and I know that Our Lady of Fátima is the patron saint of Portugal and that Our Lady Aparecida is the patron saint of Brazil. I just didn’t know if the languages themselves had a patron saint. Or maybe there’s a patron saint of language learners?
 
Oh ! Sorry, I misunderstood.

I don’t think there is a patron saint of the French language, but I could be wrong.
 
You might invoke the Apostles after they received the Holy Spirit: all those people from various countries, and they all heard the Apostles speaking to them in their own languages! Now, that’s real facility with languages!
 
Hey, I have studied some Portuguese and French. I’m trying to get back into Portuguese (my current crush is of Brazilian heritage), and I try to study half an hour of French every day (and I often fail).
 
I grew up speaking Spanish. I work with several Brazilians and my best friend is from São Paulo. I used Duolingo and tried to immerse myself in the language (the best I could in Portland, Oregon) and after about three years, Portuguese speakers ask me “how long did you live in Brazil?”. I can wholeheartedly recommend that app!
 
I use Duolingo, but I don’t learn that way. Busuu seems to be more my speed, but I don’t really have the money (It used to be a lot more, you know, free). The biggest problem with Duolingo (at least with French), is that when you translate something into English, it wants it to be more precise than Americans usually are.
By the way, I mentioned my crush being of Brazilian heritage, her grandma is from Brazil. And actually seemed very interested that I had actually studied Portuguese. Said crush has also studied Latin, Italian, and Spanish. Now I know some Italian too. Italian is easily my favourite language, but it’s not very useful. Portuguese, I think is an underrated language. Brazil has a population of 213,001,560, has the largest economy in both South America and Latin America, and is also the 5th largest country (by area) on earth.
 
Bingo! My company (we distribute music for independent artists) actually has a dedicated Portuguese-speaking department. It’s a pity that here in the States most folks don’t even know what Portuguese is or many think it’s a “dialect of Spanish”. Truth be told, in terms of raw numbers, Portuguese is the most widely spoken language in South America (not Latin America).
 
Well, Brazil is like half of South America, so there’s that. One of the channels I watch on YouTube is “Speaking Brazilian”, the woman that does that speaks slow (which is always useful for me), and sometimes explains dialectical differences between various Brazilian dialects, and sometimes talks about European vs. Brazilian Portuguese. She is from São Paulo, but lives in NYC. If you haven’t checked her out, please do.
 
And … São Paulo is the biggest city in the Southern Hemisphere.
 
Yep, and at times larger than NYC… But people think it’s all Rio and the Amazon
 
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