How does Brazilian Portuguese sounds to you?

[spanish catalan]

[mikeyup]

Sexy, playful, wild and lazy.

[spanish catalan]

more opinions?

[Damião de Góis]

It depends on the brazilian accent. I don't like nordestino too much, the one that says the Rs in a very strange way. The rest sounds good to me.

[MsSPF]

Soft and sweet. I like it

[King Niko]

Even though I prefer it,

It sounds like alien language.

[Sikeliot]

Sounds like Portuguese spoken by a West African.

[Marusya]

Very nice! I could listen to it all day! Like music.

[curupira]

In Brazil there are very many different accents, there is not a single “Brazilian accent”. 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 ), people from Rio have a particular way of pronouncing the "s":



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), Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state of Brazil:



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):



Ivete Sangalo, the beautiful brunette, has a typical accent from Bahia (Northeast Brazil):

[Marusya]

^Thanks for the detailed post, curupira! Brazil is a very interesting country.