smilie faces, "eu", not "eo".
freddie, yes, portuguese and spanish are similar but are far from being the same. My mom hates portuguese (she says is badly-spelled spanish; then again, she also says german is badly-spelled english -_- So limited to three languages, my mom...). I only know bits and pieces of portuguese but that's because I have the luck to land in Sao Paulo every time I go to Uruguay, where my family resides.
Spanish itself is a language with a thousand little dialects in it. The way in which an uruguayan speaks is diferent from an argentinan. An argentinan doesn't speak the same spanish a peruvian does. A peruvian hardly understands a mexican, and northern mexicans hate the way in which southern mexicans speak. And don't get me started on spanish from Miami. :P I have the luck to understand both Uruguayan and Mexican spanish, from all over my country. The little portuguese I speak, it sounds funny when it comes out from my mouth. :P