Brazilian Portugese vs Mexican Spanish

[Lusos]

can you understand someone speaking Brazilian Portugese easily?

Yes.Portuguese and Brazilians understand each other.
Obvious.The variant spoken In Brazil Is not a creole language.
Creole languages of Portuguese Influence can be found In Africa and Oceania and Asia.

[Dictator]

Yes.Portuguese and Brazilians understand each other.
Obvious.The variant spoken In Brazil Is not a creole language.
Creole languages of Portuguese Influence can be found In Africa and Oceania and Asia.

Some of the dialects could be considered "Creole"

[Damião de Góis]

Here are the differences between portuguese from Portugal and from Brazil:

Brazil:


Portugal:

Can you understand the (north) video?

Nope. But i think he is exagerating so that no one understands him.

[Lusos]

Some of the dialects could be considered "Creole"

Maybe the regional ones.But that happens In any Country.Even on the Countries where the Language first originates from.
Like In Portugal with Mirandense.It's kinda of a combination of Old Portuguese with Asturian (I think).

[Dictator]

Nope. But i think he is exagerating so that no one understands him.

Ehhh, he is not.

[curupira]

One should not forget that there are many variations within Portugal, and many more within Brazil, given the size and complexity of the demographics of Brazil. There is no single "Brazilian accent". The variation is actually huge. I had opened a thread with many Brazilian accents here:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...zilian+accents

In Brazil there are very many different accents. Some local slangs can be difficult for people from other regions to understand. Even within small distances there can be significant differences. People from the interior of São Paulo state, even those not too far from the metropolitan region of São Paulo city, speak very different from those of São Paulo city. Rio, which isn't far from São Paulo, has a very different accent as well (and mannerisms too).

There are significant differences in behaviour and ways of carrying oneself, which the examples below also show.

This guy here - his nickname is Thunderbird - has a very marked paulistano way (from São Paulo city), the interviewed man wearing glasses:



Alexandre Frota, on the other hand, is a typical carioca (from Rio de Janeiro city), including his way malandro of being ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malandragem ):



In the Northeast of Brazil, those from Paraíba/Pernambuco are known as "gente arretada" (hot blooded people), the older man is Ariano Suassuna, a playwrighter with deep Northeastern roots, very regionalist:



Eduardo Bueno, on the other hand, is very typical of Rio Grande do Sul in his accent (Eduardo Bueno became famous after his book on the history of Brazil, he is also known for his passion from Grêmio, a football club from Rio Grande do Sul)



Carlos Drummond de Andrade, poet, from Minas Gerais, his accent and ways (introverted, melancholic, kind of sad) are stereotypical of Minas Gerais, in this video he reads his poem "E agora, José?", one of his most famous poems:



Carlos Drummond de Andrade interviewed (one of his rare interviews):



Accent of Alceu Valença, from Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil, his accent is typical of that state:

[Yehiel]

Read my signature, asshole

carlo why do you call me that

[curupira]

Ivete Sangalo, the beautiful brunette, has a typical accent from Bahia:

[curupira]

The accent from Maranhão (a Northeast Brazilian state) is quite distinctive. It is shown here in an interview with Ferreira Gullar, a famous writer from there (it took me some time to distinguish it, but now it is clear to me; they speak the "s" somewhat like people from Rio too, due to Portuguese influence, but their mannerisms and ways of speaking are quite distinct, even when compared to the other states of Northeast Brazil; they are claimed to speak the best Portuguese of Brazil):

[Dictator]

The accent from Maranhão (a Northeast Brazilian state) is quite distinctive. It is shown here in an interview with Ferreira Gullar, a famous writer from there (it took me some time to distinguish it, but now it is clear to me; they speak the "s" somewhat like people from Rio too, due to Portuguese influence, but their mannerisms and ways of speaking are quite distinct, even when compared to the other states of Northeast Brazil; they are claimed to speak the best Portuguese of Brazil):

You already linked your thread, there is no need to spam this thread with the content of the other.

Btw, this thing about Maranhão speaking the best portuguese is pure bullshit. It's myth.