Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish)
2.5M views · Nov 25, 2018 · Education
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@Langfocus · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned
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@ohitsogam · 5 years ago
i'm half russian half portuguese, i don't know what to say
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@Olhar.Internacional · 7 years ago
I'm Brazilian and recently in Poland I thought I had just heard people speaking Portuguese.... But it was actually Polish. It happened often
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@eugenefomin3249 · 6 years ago
I'm a Russian speaker living in the US. I once heard a guy speaking English with a thick Portuguese accent and immediately assumed he was Russian or Slavic. This video was a very interesting breakdown of why. Thanks for that!
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@doueven · 3 years ago
I'm an Aussie from Sydney, we have lots of Brazilians living and working here, so I had heard what Portuguese sounded like, or so I thought. <br>When I visited Portugal I kept thinking to myself, "damn there's a lot of Russians/Slavs living here. I finally realised that Portuguese spoken in Portugal has this way of sounding.
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@gregbrogan9061 · 7 years ago
I studied Russian - then met a new Portuguese friend - when I first heard his Portuguese accent in English I switched to speak to him in Russian. He laughed and said "another person who thinks I'm Russian!" LOL
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@DecayedEmber · 5 years ago
I am Russian, and my friend is Portuguese and when I first met her I thought she was Russian because she was speaking English and her accent sounded accidentally like mine and I was so confused when she said she was Portuguese lol! 😭😂
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@snldev · 6 years ago
I'm Brazilian. every time I listen to anyone speking in Russian I feel like a camera trying to focus on a object to take a picture but it won't focus lmao.
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@Lexisspace · 3 years ago
I am a native Russian speaker, I came back from my vocation in Portugal last week and I gotta admit I had found the language very similar to slavic ones. I mean it just the way it sounds, the syllables and phonetics that make it resemble my mother tongue. I was very surprised.
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@KirillSolovjov · 5 years ago
I’m Russian. My first trip to Lisbon a few years back was really funny: I felt like there were Russian people everywhere, following me all the time 😅 I’ve met also a number of Russians who speak great Portuguese and live in Portugal— whenever they speak, I cannot stop thinking they have a horrible Russian accent, but for actual Portuguese speakers apparently their accent is completely native and fine 😆 Thanks to Paul for explaining why exactly this happens, great work as always!
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@sem2711 · 6 years ago (edited)
I’m Russian. Not only Portuguese sounds like Russian from a distance, but we also have similar accents when speaking English. Many times I mistook Portuguese people for Russians judging by their English.
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@skripnigor · 7 years ago
I am Russian. When I first heard Portuguese years ago it seemed like the most hilarious Russian gibberish ever 🤣 I still can’t help smiling whenever I hear it. By far my favorite foreign language 👍😆
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