Re: The relationship between Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese

The easiest way to explain why is it possible to understand
Galician (with knowledge of Spanish) but not Portuguese
concerns Sociolinguistics: Galicia, now an (they say)
autonomous region of Spain, has been linguistically
devastated by Spanish-speakers and by Galicians who see
their language as something rude, vulgar and prefer to use
Spanish as a common vehicle language. Galician modern
phonetics, syntax and morphology are deeply, let's say,
"spanished". This process of linguistic annihilation has not
happened to Portuguese, which remains more "classical".
In Catalonia we are fighting against this linguistically
devastating influence of Spanish with a greater success than
they have in Galicia.
I apologize for my English.

Happy New Year to everybody.