I'm starting to learn Portuguese and everything I see and hear doesn't sound at all like what I remember as a child while listening to my born in Sao Miguel father talking to his relatives and neighbors, all of whom spoke only Portuguese. For instance, I specifically remember very well two words: "legs" which my father pronounced pad-nish (doesn't sound at all like what I see in a dictionary - pernas) and chourico which my father pronounced shoo-dees. How different is the Sao Miguel Portuguese from Lisbon Portuguese? Are there a few general rules I can follow such as "r's sound like d's" or "drop the ending vowel" as in the two examples above? David
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