Dave Land wrote: > >> No. This is Spanish pronunciation. Brazilian _J-_ sounds like >> French. > > So it's a kind of "ZHOO-lee-ah", I guess? > Yes - whatever ZH means :-)
> I had a friend who spent some time in Brazil who told me that the > R in Rio is pronounced something like the American H. Was she full > of it? > She is half right, because Portuguese has two different _r_ sounds. Words like "caro" and "carro" are different words, and pronounced differently. The first one sounds like Italian, Spanish, or Austrian-German _r_. The second one sounds like French or German _r_. It's the second one that becomes the _h_. Alberto [*] Monteiro [*] sounds like Aw-beh-to :-) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
