Did you know that...
Portuguese is the only romance language other than Galego to use the personal infinitive?
Portuguese is the only lang to use mesoclise? Ex: Dir-te-ei (I will tell you - Literally: Tell you will I)
Portuguese has two different verbs for the verb "to be"? Ser and Estar
Portuguese has three demonstratives? : Este/s - esta/s - isto = this esse/s - essa/s - isso = that (next to person spoken to) aquele/s - aquela/s - aquilo = that (far from the speaker)
Portuguese is the only romance language to actively use the future and past subjunctive in everyday speech?
Portuguese is the only language to have the dipthongs ao and oe?
Portuguese is one of the few languages that uses the progressive tense like English? Ex: Eu estou indo (I am going)
Portuguese alphabet does not have a "k", "w" or "y" (unless it comes from a foreing language)
Words in English like marmalade, banana, albino, buffalo, pagode, fetish, etc... are from the Portuguese language.