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    Does it really sound slavic like some people say?
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    Like Russians trying to speak Spanish I often try to imitate the intonation and pronounciation for fun. Overall cool.

    One question I have - are there substantial regional differences in language? Like local dialects and etc or is Portugal homogenous?

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    I must say that it is the most Slavic sounding non Slavic language. For me it sounds really different from Spanish or Italian, though I hear similarities between the three languages. It's soft and harsh at the same time, a melodic language and really interesting sounding to my ears. I think if I would have to study a Romance language I would chose Portuguese.

    p.s. I think that those gsh, sh, zh, sounds give that Slavic vibe, but ofc it's not a Slavic language and I couldn't understand a word.

    I sometimes watch Euro News channel and you can watch it in Portuguese as well and sometimes, for the sake of fun I do that and I remember when I asked to father how he thinks what language is that, and he was really confused since he thought that it's Slavic, but a really weird sounding Slavic language.

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    I've mistaken it for Russian a couple of times..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Padre Organtino View Post
    One question I have - are there substantial regional differences in language? Like local dialects and etc or is Portugal homogenous?
    Yes of course, but it's getting more homogenous as time goes by thanks to TV.
    These are the identifiable local accents we have:



    The ones from the Islands are the ones more different and difficult to understand. As for the continent, everyone is talking like 7 more and more, which is the standard way of portuguese and the one spoken on TV.

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    I understand the Brazilian one a bit better. my mother always compared Portuguese to Frech (dunno what the hell was the matter with her) but yeah unless you're familiar with Spanish or Italian it does sound like a lot like Russian
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    Quote Originally Posted by Padre Organtino View Post
    Like Russians trying to speak Spanish
    There are important differences in comparison with spanish though:

    - we can say Bs and Vs perfectly
    - we have a completely different J sound, our J is like the english one. Same with G or X.
    - our Rs sound different too.
    - and of course, our S sound is different and it's what gives the slavic vibe.

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    the funniest thing i've seen someone say portuguese sounds like.. is a deaf russian person trying to speak spanish.. never laughed so hard at a comment, and it is somewhat spot on lol.. no offense sardine eaters

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    I can actually understand a good deal of Portuguese because of its closeness to French. It doesn't sound very foreign to me.

    I am more familiar with Brazilian Portuguese because I'm a Sepultura fan, and I can understand most of their Portuguese lyrics.

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    To me it sounds like a mixture of French and Russian-like sounds, that is when I hear French and Russian, sometimes the sound of them reminds me of Portuguese I heard growing up

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