Can I ask what you think of portuguese pronunciation? I can read it but its not possible for me to understand it when spoken… In comparison I learned spanish at school and it was the easiest langage to learn thanks to my french.
I’m not a speaker of any Romance language, but Portuguese does sound kinda Slavic to me for some reason. That part of the Eastern European Portugal meme checks out.
LangFocus has a video about that effect. It’s called something like “Why does Portuguese sound like Russian”. There are quite some phonetic and phonotactic similarities
Written portuguese is fairly easy to read for me. Every now and then I’ll respond to brazilians in spanish when they have a funny meme and they’ll write back in portuguese. Yay mutual intelligibility.
Spoken portuguese is damn near impossible for me to understand. I know a few phrases and words because my buddy is fluent and says them every now and then but the language sounds like spanish while holding marbles in your mouth. I will say that spanish also sounded unintelligible to me before i learned to speak it so maybe I just need to go live in Rio de Janeiro.
As a Portuguese we usually understand our neighbors from Spain, like they speak spanish and we can kinda more or less understand some meaning even without knowing the language, for example when traveling there, but if we talk portuguese to them their brain shuts down, they are not able to understand anything we say.
Honestly same for me with italian.
Can I ask what you think of portuguese pronunciation? I can read it but its not possible for me to understand it when spoken… In comparison I learned spanish at school and it was the easiest langage to learn thanks to my french.
I’m not a speaker of any Romance language, but Portuguese does sound kinda Slavic to me for some reason. That part of the Eastern European Portugal meme checks out.
LangFocus has a video about that effect. It’s called something like “Why does Portuguese sound like Russian”. There are quite some phonetic and phonotactic similarities
Link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA
There’s actually a lot of totally separate parallels here, I guess they just hit a certain critical mass when combined.
Written portuguese is fairly easy to read for me. Every now and then I’ll respond to brazilians in spanish when they have a funny meme and they’ll write back in portuguese. Yay mutual intelligibility.
Spoken portuguese is damn near impossible for me to understand. I know a few phrases and words because my buddy is fluent and says them every now and then but the language sounds like spanish while holding marbles in your mouth. I will say that spanish also sounded unintelligible to me before i learned to speak it so maybe I just need to go live in Rio de Janeiro.
As a Portuguese we usually understand our neighbors from Spain, like they speak spanish and we can kinda more or less understand some meaning even without knowing the language, for example when traveling there, but if we talk portuguese to them their brain shuts down, they are not able to understand anything we say.