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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
