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Having studied both Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian, I have to honestly say that knowing one is not much of an advantage to learning the other. Unlike, say Spanish and Portuguese, there's almost no mutual intelligibility. Although Senhor Brasilia may recognize the roots of many words, there are almost no true cognates, and the grammars are really, really, different.

Romanian is chock-full of Slavic influences and loanwords, and has artifacts not found in any other living Romance language (case system, three genders, articulated nouns, etc). Plus the verbs are a lot less regular than Portuguese.

That's not to say that he shouldn't go, just that he won't necessarily have an easy time talking to people if he does.