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Italians and Spaniards should have an easy time understanding at least some Brazilian portuguese. European Portuguese is _really_ hard, though, because our vowe
by pdpi 5y ago
Italians and Spaniards should have an easy time understanding at least some Brazilian portuguese. European Portuguese is _really_ hard, though, because our vowels are all sorts of weird. When I moved to London, it really struck me how people speaking Russian sounded to me like they were speaking Portuguese, which always forced a double take when I tried to “tune in” and realised it wasn’t my own language.
- mlinhares 5y agoOh yeah, I wonder why PT-PT is so different in terms of pronunciation, it would make sense for Brazil to move in a different direction given the waves of immigration and how insular it is in South America and Portugal to stay closer to Spanish/Gallego given how close they are there.
- oblio 5y agoHe he. That's partly why we make fun of you as the most Western Eastern European country. Developing economy, speaking with a strong Slavic accent, recovering after a long dictatorship, you check many boxes :-p
- pdpi 5y agoI'd never heard that one, that's amazing. Who's the "we" you speak of?
- ncmncm 5y agoMust be Spaniards. I worked with someone from Romania. He said Portuguese sounds just like Romanian until you try to understand it, then it sounds like someone making fun of Romanian.
- oblio 5y agoI'm actually Romanian and I can confirm that. Portuguese is Romanian background noise at a party :-p
- oblio 5y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/PortugalIsEastEurope/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PortugalIsEastEurope/