Shijro in Spain's Spanish and Portugal's Portuguese

Shijro has two Spanishes and two Portugueses. The main Spanish is written for Latin America and the main Portuguese for Brazil, because that is where most people who speak them live. Phones set to Spain’s Spanish or Portugal’s Portuguese get their own version.

What changes

About half the app reads differently in Spain’s Spanish, and a bit more than half in Portugal’s Portuguese. Almost all of it is small.

In Spain the app says email where Latin America says correo, and “¿Has olvidado tu contraseña?” rather than “¿Olvidaste tu contraseña?”, because Spain uses that tense for something that has just happened. Signing in is entrar. Something worth keeping “merece la pena” rather than “vale la pena”.

Portugal changes more. A password is a palavra-passe, not a senha. Forms ask you to introduzir your email rather than digitar it. Brazil’s você mostly disappears, so “sua senha” becomes “a sua palavra-passe”, and the example email address in the sign-in form changes with it.

How each version was made

The Latin American and Brazilian versions were translated first. Then a model read each finished line with a short guide to Spain’s or Portugal’s usage and rewrote it only where a reader there would notice it as foreign. Anything it left alone stays shared, so a correction to the Latin American Spanish reaches Spain too unless Spain says it differently.

Nobody from Spain or Portugal has read these yet. If something reads like it came from the other side of the Atlantic, tell me at contact@shijro.com.

Which one you get

Shijro follows your phone’s language. A phone set to Spanish (Spain) gets Spain’s version, and any other Spanish gets the Latin American one; the same goes for Portuguese. You can switch in Settings, under Language, where both are listed by name.