What’s the difference between Brazilian portuguese and Portugal portuguese?
August 24th, 2010 Posted in portugal
Question by confused: What’s the difference between Brazilian portuguese and Portugal portuguese?
I was told that Brazilian portuguese is a more beautiful language compared to the portugese spoken in Portugal.
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Answer by fiel2u43v3r
There’s some diferences in pronunciation (like the British and the American English), mostly “caused” because lots of different people arrived in Brazil, like the africans, the italians, the germans, the polish, the french etc. There’s also differences in the writing, that had probably been “deleted” with the 2008 Grammatical Treat. There’s also different words. “Lifeguard” is “Salva-Vidas” in Brazilian portuguese and “Banheiro” (that mean bathroom in brazilian portuguese) in Portuguese from Portugal.
Also, in Brazil there’s different accents, like the one from Rio Grande do Sul (the southeast state, german and italian influence), from the Northeast (influenced by the portugueses and the dutchs) and the one from Rio de Janeiro (native and portuguese influence).
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4 Responses to “What’s the difference between Brazilian portuguese and Portugal portuguese?”
By wize woman on Aug 24, 2010
They vary–
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language
I hope it helps.
By Sereia Ruivinha on Aug 24, 2010
It’s like the difference of the english language of Usa and England..
Answer of a Brazilian girl…
In Portugal,the expressions and the language is very different of Brazil,but is much the same!
Bie bie
By:Sereia Ruivinha,Brazil
By PORTUGAL on Aug 24, 2010
Those that say differences between European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are similar to British English and American English, obviously aren’t familiar with both languages. The differences are huge.
Regarding beauty…well, that’s subjective, and I bet they were talking about accent. I’ve met some American ladies that were learning BP (as it is more advertised in the US than EP is) and as soon as they had contact with EP, they fell in love with this variant and quit studying BP. Most people prefer to study BP because it is much easier. Brazilians tend to simplify everything specially when it comes down to grammar. They also borrow a lot of words from English, therefore, it makes it very easy for English speakers to learn BP than EP.
If you want to know more about the differences between both languages, check this question; read Awful Portuguese’s and Portuguese Doll’s answers.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq2Dvb8hpPI4BpOApTLgTHPty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071212190735AAdTuru&show=7#profile-info-1743b682e8d4f489e642db9865da7ba3aa
As for the accent, check for yourself which one you prefer.
Brazilian Portuguese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrbPK9ywz4&feature=PlayList&p=D0F7EA51AC6EB557&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4
European Portuguese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNbYh9hOERk
By Moxx on Aug 24, 2010
It is :0)
no jk, its that im from Brazil so i think that
brazilians hate argentinians and portugese
its kinda a competition
the accents are different, and brazilian portugese is simplified and therefore more fluid
the portugese in these two places is different, and sometimes we cannot understand each other