For a Portuguese-speaker, Russian sounds like Portuguese spoken backwards. Portuguese is not closest to Romanian. Its closest relatives are galego (Galician), Ladino (a derivative of Old Spanish spoken by Sefaradi Jews) and Spanish, the Western Romance languages.
European Portuguese is much "faster" than Brazilian Portuguese, where the vowels are more clear. Sometimes it's hard for Brazilian understand a Portuguese, but not the opposite. For example, pessoa in Brazil sounds <pe-sso-a> or <pessoua>, while in regular Portugal is <psoa> JS Lopes ________________________________ De: Pam Santos <[email protected]> Para: [email protected] Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 31 de Janeiro de 2013 19:52 Assunto: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Island of my dreams Okay I was going to say that too a little Russian but was too embarassed too lol I am glad I am not the only one. So its a little Spanish, French and Russian hehe On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: When I used to teach in the public schools, we had to give out the state tests. I was supposed to pace up and down the aisles while my students were testing. So I used to listen to the Portuguese language tapes while walking up and down the aisles. After the testing was done, my Spanish speaking students (13 & 14 year olds) wanted to hear the tapes. They listened and said it sounded like Spanish with a French accent. One student told me that she thought if she were left in Portugal, she could probably start to get by after about 2 weeks (she was a native Spanish speaker). > >I've been told that Portuguese is supposed to be the closest to Romanian. >I've never heard that spoken, so I really don't know. >Cheri Mello >Listowner, Azores-Gen >Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, >Achada >-- >-- >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when >they arrive. >For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >(vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right >that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Azores Genealogy" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
