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Scottish people can pronounce the same sound! When you say "Loch Ness" with a very thick Scottish accent, the "ch" in loch is quite close to it. Also the soun

Scottish people can pronounce the same sound! When you say "Loch Ness" with a very thick Scottish accent, the "ch" in loch is quite close to it. Also the sound is quite common in other languages: "roi" in French, "reisen" in German, ... Even some Spanish dialects like Galego have the same r. Only Castilian/normal Spanish doesn't have it. OTOH, just ask a Brazilian to pronounce simply "the". The "th" phoneme is quite hard for Portuguese speakers. Better yet, ask a native from Rio to pronounce any word with a mute "t" or "d". It's hilarious. "Brad Pit" becomes "brahdjee peetchee".

pelasaco 5y ago
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- simtel20 5y ago
  Screen capture: prin-tche
- weinzierl 5y ago
  Facebook = Fassy-Bookee
- aforwardslash 5y ago
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lvass 5y ago
>"Brad Pit" becomes "brahdjee pitchee" I think this is very much standard all over Brazil. It's a common pattern in a large amount of english words, I think most or all of us can pronounce it correctly, but we don't because it'd be harder say and recognize while trying to pronounce it like an american almost sounds like pedantry here.
- lucis 5y ago
  > I think this is very much standard all over Brazil. You mean about the "mispronunciation"? Because the j in "bradhjee" I hear mostly in southeastern accents, where people in Northeast says it more closely with how it's spoken in English.
  - SwiftyBug 5y ago
    I believe the standardization refers to adding the vowels to the end of thos consonant-ended words. I believe most northeasterners would say "brédi píti".
darkwater 5y ago
> Even some Spanish dialects like Galego have the same r You are opening a can of worms here considering that Galego is officialy a language, not a dialect, and it's basically very very similar to Portoguese, up to a point in which a galician colleague of mine, when we were at a conference in the USA would talk in Galego with a couple of Brazilian guys and they talked to him in Brazilian Portoguese and they went along just fine. Modern galego and portugues stem from the same root[1] [1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_gallego#Historia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_gallego#Historia
- diego_moita 5y ago
  > You are opening a can of worms here considering that Galego is officialy a language, not a dialect, and it's basically very very similar to Portoguese, True, you are right. I stand corrected. The difference between a language and a dialect is often just politics.
  - darkwater 5y ago
    > The difference between a language and a dialect is often just politics. Indeed! It can be defined by loosing or winning a war. If you win, it's a language; if you loose, it's a dialect.
    - mlinhares 5y ago
      That's pretty much why it's called "Portuguese", they pushed the moors before other parts of Hispania did it and decided to get their own kingdom started instead of waiting for all the other nobles to finish the work. If it wasn't for that Portugal might not even exist as a country in itself.
    - mprovost 5y ago
      "A language is a dialect with an army and navy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
marcodiego 5y ago
People from Northeast inland will pronounce "breadee peetee".
- simtel20 5y ago
  Also on the coast
ratww 5y ago
That's so true! The thing with "th" I see is that we Brazilians speak it as "fink" (fɪŋk) or "sink" (sɪŋk) rather than the traditional "θɪŋk". But I find that's mostly a pedagogical problem, with teachers also doing it and students copying. However after quick explanation and practice, most can learn (I think I did :).
- SwiftyBug 5y ago
  I think that phoneme sounds and looks silly. The whole putting the tongue out in order to properly pronounce "th" is very weird for Portuguese speakers. Like in this scene from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Claude Frollo says: "The sentence: death!": https://i.imgur.com/lBEU5Zk.png https://i.imgur.com/lBEU5Zk.png It's very funny to watch this in Portuguese because the word he uses is "morte", and he looks very stupid putting the tongue out after saying "morte".

pelasaco 5y ago

Hot-Dog: Rotchi-Dogee Hardcore: Rardjee-Core Armlock: Army-locky

simtel20 5y ago
Screen capture: prin-tche
weinzierl 5y ago
Facebook = Fassy-Bookee
aforwardslash 5y ago
Hobby: Rhobby

lvass 5y ago

>"Brad Pit" becomes "brahdjee pitchee" I think this is very much standard all over Brazil. It's a common pattern in a large amount of english words, I think most or all of us can pronounce it correctly, but we don't because it'd be harder say and recognize while trying to pronounce it like an american almost sounds like pedantry here.

lucis 5y ago
> I think this is very much standard all over Brazil. You mean about the "mispronunciation"? Because the j in "bradhjee" I hear mostly in southeastern accents, where people in Northeast says it more closely with how it's spoken in English.
- SwiftyBug 5y ago
  I believe the standardization refers to adding the vowels to the end of thos consonant-ended words. I believe most northeasterners would say "brédi píti".

darkwater 5y ago

> Even some Spanish dialects like Galego have the same r You are opening a can of worms here considering that Galego is officialy a language, not a dialect, and it's basically very very similar to Portoguese, up to a point in which a galician colleague of mine, when we were at a conference in the USA would talk in Galego with a couple of Brazilian guys and they talked to him in Brazilian Portoguese and they went along just fine. Modern galego and portugues stem from the same root[1] [1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_gallego#Historia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_gallego#Historia

diego_moita 5y ago
> You are opening a can of worms here considering that Galego is officialy a language, not a dialect, and it's basically very very similar to Portoguese, True, you are right. I stand corrected. The difference between a language and a dialect is often just politics.
- darkwater 5y ago
  > The difference between a language and a dialect is often just politics. Indeed! It can be defined by loosing or winning a war. If you win, it's a language; if you loose, it's a dialect.
  - mlinhares 5y ago
    That's pretty much why it's called "Portuguese", they pushed the moors before other parts of Hispania did it and decided to get their own kingdom started instead of waiting for all the other nobles to finish the work. If it wasn't for that Portugal might not even exist as a country in itself.
  - mprovost 5y ago
    "A language is a dialect with an army and navy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

marcodiego 5y ago

People from Northeast inland will pronounce "breadee peetee".

simtel20 5y ago
Also on the coast

ratww 5y ago

That's so true! The thing with "th" I see is that we Brazilians speak it as "fink" (fɪŋk) or "sink" (sɪŋk) rather than the traditional "θɪŋk". But I find that's mostly a pedagogical problem, with teachers also doing it and students copying. However after quick explanation and practice, most can learn (I think I did :).

SwiftyBug 5y ago
I think that phoneme sounds and looks silly. The whole putting the tongue out in order to properly pronounce "th" is very weird for Portuguese speakers. Like in this scene from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Claude Frollo says: "The sentence: death!": https://i.imgur.com/lBEU5Zk.png https://i.imgur.com/lBEU5Zk.png It's very funny to watch this in Portuguese because the word he uses is "morte", and he looks very stupid putting the tongue out after saying "morte".