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For you, does Brazilian Portuguese sound like what language?
I always read that Portuguese sounds similar to some Slavic language (Russian, Polish or Ukrainian). Others say that Portuguese spoken in Brazil sounds similar to French, Italian, Romanian, Japanese, Greek and even Japanese. For you, the Portuguese spoken in Brazil sounds similar to what language?
Jun 27, 2019 8:09 PM
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Just based on the "sound" and nothing else, I'd say European Portuguese does sound a little like Russian, and yeah, Brazilian Portuguese does sound a little bit like Japanese :)
Edit: But let me add that Brazilians sound like incredibly happy Japanese people....
Edit: But let me add that Brazilians sound like incredibly happy Japanese people....
June 27, 2019
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for me it reminds me a lot of Spanish, because Portuguese and Spanish are the two largest branches that have emerged from the Romance languages.
June 27, 2019
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When I didn't speak any Russian, yes, Portuguese, even the one spoken in Brazil, sounded like what I imagined Russian to be. Now, the language spoken in Brazil doesn't sound anything like Russian to me. Totally different intonation, rhythm and many sounds that they don't share. As for the one spoken in Portugal, sure, there are one or two similar sounds in Russian, but I wouldn't go so far as to say European Portuguese sounds like Russian or other Slavic languages.
I don't really think Portuguese sounds like French either. French doesn't sound like any of the other Romance languages to me, except sometimes, maybe, Catalan.
June 27, 2019
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As a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I believe Brazilian Portuguese sounds like Latin American Spanish. I believe all the immigration between Portugal and Spain to Latin America in the 1500’s may have affected both languages in that area to sound alike.
June 27, 2019
But a Polish can read a writing in Portuguese and Brazilian natives understand what he is talking, even if he does not even know what he is saying.
June 27, 2019
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