List of languages
- French (87.2%)
- Arabic (3.6%)
- Portuguese (1.5%)
- Spanish (1.2%)
- Italian (1.0%)
- German (0.7%)
- Turkish (0.5%)
- English (0.4%)
In their language difficulty ranking, the Foreign Service Institute puts French in the top ten easiest languages to learn for English-speakers, alongside notoriously easy languages such as Spanish and Italian.
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Yes, Portugal is indeed older than Spain. Portugal's independence was declared in 1139, while Spain didn't become an independent state until 1492.
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In the EU, drinking every day is most frequent in Portugal, with a fifth (20.7 per cent) of the population consuming alcohol daily, followed by Spain (13.0 per cent) and Italy (12.1 per cent). The lowest share of daily drinkers is around 1 per cent in Latvia and Lithuania.
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