*Isabella, * *For the most part, I agree with most of what you said. I now can understand just about any Portuguese speaking person so much so that when I hear someone speaking on the radio, I sometimes have to think "is that a Brazilian or an Azorean?" But it took time. It WAS a problem initially. * *John Vasconcelos*
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Isabella Baltar <[email protected] > wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
