I'm Brazilian and so my Portuguese is from Brazil, where I lived most of my life. Brazil is almost as big as US, having several different accents as we have here in US if you go from N to S or E to W.
I have been to Portugal and to Azores (Terceira) and I never had a problem communicating with anyone. I traveled alone so I had to really speak to everybody in restaurants, churches, libraries, taxi drivers, everybody understand my Portuguese as I did understand them. It was never a problem at all. Brazilian Portuguese is for Portugal Portuguese as American English is for English from UK, except for regional accents. That is what I experienced while being there for about one month and a half. Isabella On Friday, July 12, 2013 4:10:06 PM UTC-4, David Perry wrote: > > 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 > -- For 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
