What does portuguese sound like to you?

[Mordid]

Does farting sound like burping? Just kidding.

Russian and Portuguese have little in common, but I don't speak Portuguese and I can understand where you're coming from. The pronunciation sounds Slavic to my ears.

[Riki]

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.

Yes,but the Brazilian Portuguese they write and sing its closer to the standard Portuguese.
Do you get any of this?

[YOUTUBE]T4SuRhRlrnA[/YOUTUBE]

[billErobreren]

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.

The L too but it still was overshadowed by the S sounds. the way that chick said the name Matilde & putting some emphasis on the L. I don't hear Spanish speakers doing that except for maybe Caribbean ones I've heard some of them say the word "partir" & making it sound like this "pAHLteeL" ugh they are the worst

[Sikeliot]

The L too but it still was overshadowed by the S sounds. the way that chick said the name Matilde & putting some emphasis on the L. I don't hear Spanish speakers doing that except for maybe Caribbean ones I've heard some of them say the word "partir" & making it sound like this "pAHLteeL" ugh they are the worst

Caribbean Spanish is the Ebonics of the Spanish language.. for the most part horrid.

[Damião de Góis]

The L too but it still was overshadowed by the S sounds. the way that chick said the name Matilde & putting some emphasis on the L. I don't hear Spanish speakers doing that except for maybe Caribbean ones I've heard some of them say the word "partir" & making it sound like this "pAHLteeL" ugh they are the worst

Picking up the name "Matilde" in the middle of that video is really impressive. How did you do it?

[billErobreren]

Picking up the name "Matilde" in the middle of that video is really impressive. How did you do it?

I speak Spanish & French the knowledge of both of those works wonders when faced with either Portuguese, Catalan or Italian & I understood about 96% of the video when I saw it for the 2nd time

I didn't bother learning Portuguese for the same reason I didn't with Norwegian, I understand most of it anyways so I tend to get lazy

[Damião de Góis]

I speak Spanish & French the knowledge of both of those works wonders when faced with either Portuguese, Catalan or Italian & I understood about 96% of the video when I saw it for the 2nd time

I didn't bother learning Portuguese for the same reason I didn't with Norwegian, I understand most of it anyways so I tend to get lazy

Well, the thing is i would bet spanish posters wouldn't get anything from that video, because that's the reality of how much spaniards understand portuguese when spoken.

So that means you're really good at understanding a language you didn't study

[Atlantic Islander]

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.

In the Azores, only the dialect from São Miguel (it gets made fun of a lot), it's difficult to understand because of the French influence:

http://youtu.be/4zwnIUf4TNA

My mother has said that the accent from Terceira is a bit odd too.

[Damião de Góis]

In the Azores, only the dialect from São Miguel (it gets made fun of a lot), it's difficult to understand because of the French influence:

http://youtu.be/4zwnIUf4TNA

My mother has said that the accent from Terceira is a bit odd too.

lol, yes that's the one. It reminded me of a colleague from college which we never understood what he said and we just nodded our heads when he talked. But by the 2nd year we got used to it.

[Riki]

lol, yes that's the one. It reminded me of a colleague from college which we never understood what he said and we just nodded our heads when he talked. But by the 2nd year we got used to it.

I like the regional expressions.
My Sister lives in the Algarve.I visit her a lot.At one time we went out with some friends of her(Algarvios).
And one of them looked at my trousers and asked me:
-"E tu,porque Mar pescaste esse Peixe moc.?"
Claro deixou-me a pensar por uns segundos.(Que peixe?)