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Its like a muffled french mixed spanish
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I know it gonna sound weird but it sounds kinda Slavic to me.
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One can confuse with Russian especially from a distance because of:
-falling intonation
-reduced vowels in unaccented position (albeit Russians don't swallow them completely like Portuguese quite often do)
- stress timing
- similar vowels & consonants inventory (no nasal vowels in Russian though)
- sibilants occur frequently forming superficially similar clusters.
European Portuguese can also remind generic Slavic speech despite being Romance language, or even my language - Polish. Interesting case of convergent evolution in some aspects. I remember watching some Portuguese TV show from Portugal and thinking that it sounds oddly familiar but I can't understand a word.
I really like the sound of Portuguese and how you can express yourself with it (to my limited knowledge).
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this+generic slavic
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I'll not read the whole thread, so I'm not sure if someone already told that, but: I don't think "slavic vibe" is because of S sound at all, since, in Brazil, the only group that have a S sound like Portugal are people from Rio de Janeiro, and yet, I know many Brazilians outside RJ that even when speaking English they got questions like "Is Russian your native language? Because your accent..."
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It sounds a lot like Albanian, in terms of pronunciation.
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