Talk:Castelobruxo

Recently, I've been thinking about the existance of Castelobruxo, and I've been pretty frustrated the implication that over 50% of the South American population is expected to speak Portuguese (and not just Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese – it's a whole separate dialect) in order to attend Castelobruxo. IDK if Rowling did her research, but Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish. It's also the only nation in SA that does. Sure, Brazil has a higher population than any other country on the continent, but the population doesn't even make up 50%. Let me put it this way: there are more spanish speaking people in SA then there are people in the US. Think about that. There are 300M+ people in SA who speak spanish, NOT Portuguese. Now, I'm not going into wizard populations, because then there are math equations and debates about whether there are 280 or 1000 students at Hogwarts, but stop to think about it: '''Don't speak Portuguese, well, too bad for you. Guess you're not getting a magical education then. '''That's basically what it boils down to. And that really makes me mad. And here are a couple of counterarguments and my refutes: There are several more counter arguments I could refute, but I rest my case. If you want to bring them up, I'm happy to debate it with you. And I will debate, not type in all caps. In any case, I'd enjoy discussing this topic with anyone who'd like to. Olivia Graves (talk) 20:11, August 28, 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Portuguese and Spanish are similar languages, so everyone will understand each other anyways. No. They are not that similar. SOMETIMES, they are mutually intelligible, but not always. And in the case of magical spells, I would say a miscommunication could have deadly effects.
 * 2) They could learn Portuguese. I mean, all the people at Beauxbatons and Durmstrang seemed to know English. In Europe, because of the EU, multilingualism is very common. I had a classmate from Poland who was completely fluent in English and Polish (duh on Polish), was taking his second year of Spanish, and had taken at least two years of German. He was in grade 9. However, in Latin America, students with good quality education will be learning at least one or two languages by the time they start grade 6. Now, those languages are most likely not going to be Portuguese if they live in Central America. It's far more likely it'll be English and French. Possibly even Dutch. In any case, most focus on learning English.