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    Default Non-native Portuguese-speakers: do you generally find Portuguese or Brazilians easier to understand?

    For me it's Brazilians, but I'd like to know what others think.

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    For comparison:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuUobb1EIt4

    (you can enable subtitles)

    Weather in EP:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37EUAZQePUc

    (you can enable subtitles)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S9W8nTsMoA


    Brazilian Portuguese is probably easier to understand.

    European Portuguese has more complex phonology which results being able to say the same thing with half of the syllables sometimes compared to BP.

    In BP everything is pronounced in a way that more directly ressembles how it's written, which makes it easier to understand if you already know the word in the written form or by analogy with other romance languages.

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    Despite I speak with sotaque carioca as basis, the most clear to me is the paulista one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    For me it's Brazilians, but I'd like to know what others think.
    Same, by a long mile.

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    Brazilians. I've studied a bit of Portuguese in the past, and it's probably my best non-native language. Thing is though, I can't understand a thing Europeans say. Kind of sucks since there's loads of Azoreans near where I live, but I can't even attempt to communicate with them. On the other hand, if I watch an Ecolinguist video featuring Portuguese, I can follow along by listening and if I look at the Portuguese subtitles while listening, I understand nearly all of it (with the help of context).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chron View Post
    Brazilians. I've studied a bit of Portuguese in the past, and it's probably my best non-native language. Thing is though, I can't understand a thing Europeans say. Kind of sucks since there's loads of Azoreans near where I live, but I can't even attempt to communicate with them. On the other hand, if I watch an Ecolinguist video featuring Portuguese, I can follow along by listening and if I look at the Portuguese subtitles while listening, I understand nearly all of it (with the help of context).
    Azorean might be the most difficult portuguese accent. Even we mainlanders struggle to understand them, so i imagine it's mission impossible for a non native speaker.

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    No idea how Brazucas speak/write Portuguese, if bad or not. But they seem retard Portuguese speakers. They speak in a very slow and retard-looking way compared with Portuguese.

    Portuguese from Portugal is super easy to understand for Spaniards when written (and nobody learns Portuguese here). ANOTHER THING is spoken, then it is not so clear.

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    The vast majority will probably choose Brazilians

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