European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portuguese

[brazuca]

Abrir um tópico para comparar sotaques dos membros que falam português.

and this topic is about what exactly?

[Dictator]

and this topic is about what exactly?

Comparing portuguese accents and see if we can understand each other? I thought it was obvious.

[kkk77]

is hard to understand Portuguese!

Really? In this video I find it easy to understand the Brazilian accent. Usually is the vocabulary and not the accent that make it difficult to understand Brazilians.

I believe the main reason is the fact that Portuguese from Portugal has a more variety of vowels, which allow it to have shorter words (more vowels = more possible combinations of phonemes to form a syllabe).

For example at 3:33 (moramos onde queremos):
BR: mo-ra-mos on-de que-re-mos, 8 syllabes.
PT: mo-ramz ond qre-mos, 5 syllabes.
And it could have been pronounced: mramz ond qrems, 3 syllabes.

In PT we can say these 3 words with 3 syllabes, while BR use 8, that's what may make it difficult for Brazilians not used to the accent.

[EdAlencar]

I read somewhere that the northeastern Brazilian accent is almost like the accent of the first Portuguese that settled in Brazil, kinda like the Quebecois ~ French accent. Do you think this could be possible?