Native English speakers: is Portuguese easier to pronounce to you than Spanish?

It depends....WHICH Spanish? Many different dialects, each with regional slang, and different pronunciations, or accents.

I had an obsession with wanting to live in Chile when I was a kid. I was going to be a donkey rancher in the Andes Mountains...I don't know why. I was just a kid. Led me start taking Heritage Language courses at a local school on the weekends. They didn't have any Spanish dialects from Chile, so I took Uruguayan Spanish. I was quite fluent when younger, but lost the ability over the years with no one to speak it with.

Now I live part of the year in a city that has a large population of migrant farm workers. Mostly from Central America....Trinidad, Jamaica, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican etc. Many different Spanish dialects. And I can barely understand any of them......not without asking them to slow down and over enunciate.

One of my partner's best friends is Portuguese.....was raised there until his early teens. He talks sooooooo fast, that I can barely pick out a word here or there. Of course, his mom is Lebanese and he mixes languages as he speaks , with English thrown in as well.

Italian is quite easy for me. It only took working for Italians to be able to pick up much of the language.

I still don't have a grasp on how Spanish is supposed to be pronounced. I also find Spanish pronunciation very ugly. Anyways, because I learned French at an early age, Portuguese is a breeze for me.

No, it is not. But that is because I speak Spanish and not Portuguese. I started young enough that I do not really have a North American accent.

I suspect that Americans speaking Portuguese sound better to you because it is not your native language.

Anybody organizing on traveling to a Spanish-speaking country sometime in the following months or so have to make a program so that can make a dissent conversation in Spanish or just to comprehend when men and women talk to them simply because by the time your trip rolls all around you need to be conversationally fluent or quite shut to it with the support

As an individual, I find Portuguese much harder to pronounce than Spanish. But I can read it with no difficulty.

Very few Americans speak Portuguese. The few who do are mostly of Portuguese descent and grew up speaking it.

For me Spanish is much easier, but that is because I have been around Spanish speaking people my whole life.