European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation EXPLAINED! 

Have you noticed any more differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation? Let me know below!

As a Spanish speaker I can say the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese is much much greater than say Mexican Spanish and European Spanish.

All you need is someone from Angola on here.

I am East Timorense . Honestly it is very hard for me to understand Brazil Portuguese. I understand more when Portuguese people are talking . Currently there are a lot of Timorense are learning Portuguese portugal and Portuguese Brazil too . There are a lot of teachers from Portugal and Brazil are teaching Portuguese in my country . If you attend Portugal class , you will speak and pronounce like Portuguese people but if you attend Brazil class , you will speak like Brazilian .

"Diferente" em Portugal parece "de frente" kkk

This is the best Brazilian vs European Portuguese video I've seen, & I've watched quite a few!

As a Portuguese living in Brazil, I must say that I think generally, Brazilians have a harder time understanding European Portuguese than Portuguese have understanding Brazilian Portuguese. I think one of the main reasons is because in Portugal we're very exposed to Brazilian culture like telenovelas and music, and I for example in school always had at least one Brazilian in my class.

Lisbon is the most beautiful city in the world, and Portugal is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. ❤️ The city of Porto is very old and romantic city. The Portuguese should be proud of the beauty of their country. They have a beautiful nature, climate, architecture, cuisine, music (fado) ... Only people without souls don't like fado. Lisbon has a soul, and its name is ‘fado’. Fado was recognised by UNESCO in 2011 as an ‘intangible cultural heritage’. Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city, is the heartbeat of the country. It’s also one of the oldest cities in the world, predating even Rome. Lisbon is a city of old souls who value tradition, art, and creativity and are putting those facets of life to use in modern ways. The Portuguese people are some of the kindest I’ve come across in my travels. They are one of the best nations in the world, they are very polite and friendly open to foreigners. People with the beautiful hearts and souls. For me, the Portuguese language is the most beautiful language. I speak several languages including Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, German, and Croatian, my native language. Languages are my passion. European Portuguese and Slavic languages have the same phonetics. In Portugal, Russian speaking people learn the language quite easily. English speaking people don't use many of the sounds used in Portuguese, so they have a bit more difficulty. European Portuguese is sexy as fuck, it's a perversion for my ears. 😊 Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes once called Portuguese "the sweet and gracious language" and Spanish playwright Lope de Vega referred to it as "sweet", while the Brazilian writer Olavo Bilac poetically described it as "a última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela" (the last flower of Latium, rustic and beautiful). Portuguese is also termed "the language of Camões", after one of the greatest literary figures in the Portuguese language, Luís Vaz de Camões. Olavo Bilac once said "a Pátria não é a raça, o meio, o conjunto dos aparelhos económicos e políticos, é o idioma herdado ou criado por um povo". Fernando Pessoa wrote in Lisbon "a minha Pátria é a Língua Portuguesa". Saudações da Croácia. 😘

As someone from a working class background in London, I noticed that Brazilians do the exact same L sound at the end of words or before consonants that we do, and Portuguese do the L sound that middle and upper class southern people do. Like think about the words “wall” “bell” “call” “tall” “ball” etc.; a middle class person would say the L with their tongue whereas I would say it as a W. Even the word Brazil, I would say the L as a W. I’m trying to learn Brazilian Portuguese at the moment, and I think the reason for me finding it easiest to pronounce is stuff like that, it’s alien for me to have that Received Pronunciation L sound at the end of words or before a consonant in English, let alone another language. Thanks for the video :) ❤️

As someone who has only studied the Brazilian ‘version’- I found this video fascinating!

Português é uma língua linda. Ambas as variantes são igualmente lindas.

I'm mexican, I speak spanish, and I'd like so much to learn and speak portugues, this video is very interesting❤️❤️❤️ Parabéns guyyys!!!

As a Spanish speaker (PR) I found it incredibly easier learning Brazilian Portuguese when it came to pronunciation and grammar

I just wish Portuguese speakers would appreciate both accents instead of wondering which one is better :((

In English we have the saying: ‘Happy as a pig in sh*t’... enjoy. Lol

I'm french , i do like brazilian accent 🙂 so that one reason why i'd start learning brazilian português 😉

Don't forget the regional differences. Portugal, a bit like in England, is very rich in regional accents and it is not easy to notice some subtle differences, like say a Brigantino or a Guardense. In Coimbra and Guarda for instance you may say ( like "sun") in estás and not like (x or sh), whereas Viseu is actually known for the "sch" sound. So Leonardo's Lisbon accent does not represent the entire country. (I'm from Lisbon btw)

A Carol é a típica mineira simpática e sorridente haha amo Minas Gerais 💙

This is the best Brazilian vs European Portuguese video I've seen, PARABENS!

Hearing the Brazilian pronunciation of "Mel" stunned me, I thought she said "MEO" for a second. The Portuguese company, I mean.

Como nordestino e brasileiro posso dizer, o sotaque daqui é o seguinte. As palavras que terminam em OU omite-se o U final: Falou (Falô) Cantou (Cantô) Dançou (Dançô) Pensou (Pensô) E as palavras com ditongos EI, o I some: Cadeira (Cadera) Cheiro ( Chero) Peneira ( Penera) Mamadeira (Mamadera) Fora as palavras com R no meio e no fim. Como aqui não temos o R retroflexo (R caipira) o R é pronunciado somente quando se inicia uma palavra, exemplo: Rapadura. No fim omitimos o som, assim como no inglês britânico, que tbm omitem o som do R final, exemplo: Professor (Professô) Porta ( o som do R é muito tímido, quase imperceptível). Fora que o Tu, que é usado em algumas regiões do Nordeste, sempre é conjugado errado: Tu foi pra escola? (Tu fostes pra escola?) Tu fez o dever de casa? (Tu fizestes o dever de casa?) A diferença entre o PT BR e o PT PT, mais perceptível são a pronúncia das vogais, em especial do E e O. Exemplo: Br (Sofá) / Pt (Sufá) Br (Especial / Ispeciau) / PT (Ispicial). Br (Perigo/Pirigu) / PT ( P'rigu) Br (Colesterol/Colesterou) /PT (C'lesterol) Eles engolem bastante vogais. E por fim o verbo no gerúndio pra uma ação presente, exemplo: Estava tentando andar de bicicleta (gerúndio) Estavas a tentar andar de bicicleta (infinitivo). Sabe- se pelas normas gramáticas da Língua Portuguesa, que sempre para uma ação no presente, que o correto seria o Infinitivo, particípio terminado em AR, ER.

the guy be like: "your friend is depressing, we are also happy" his face: :/ the girls face: 😁😁😁 edit: lmao I'm famous, just for you to know I'm brazillian and I love Portugal and people from Portugal! I just thought that was funny, let's please respect everyones culture.

No Nordeste do Brasil falamos "día", e não "djia".

Boa! Este é um tipo de conteúdo que muita gente faz, mas você abordou de um jeito diferente. Gostei bastante.

This is so helpful. I want to go to Portugal so I started learning the language on a popular language leaning site, Only to find out that it was Brazilian Portuguese. It’s very hard to find European Portuguese on a learning app. Hope this is close enough to get me started. Thank you all. Also love all three of your personalities! Delightful!

I first learned European Portuguese and then Brazilian Portuguese for work. I felt the European Portuguese pronunciation was more natural for me but the Brazilian Portuguese accent made me sound kinder. I feel like they tap into different parts of my personality. I post videos in Portuguese, Spanish and English. I hope to go to Portugal once things calm down. See you soon! 😃👍

4:59 in Northeast of Brasil o "d" have the same sound like in Portugal.

Eu ri muito da rivalidade dos dois, eles realmente entraram na disputa de cabeça... 🤣

This analysis of the Portuguese language taught me a lot about the pronunciation and was very clear. I Mean, I am studying Portuguese, specifically the Brazilian, and I am a Spanish speaker, so always Spanish is related with portugués, and sometimes the pronunciation don't makes sense but seeing this video helped me to know why Portuguese has its pronunciation. Portuguese developed differently from Spanish, so now I understand better the language

Entre os vídeos que comparam os dois sotaques, esse é o melhor a que já assisti até agora. A moça brasileira demonstra muito conhecimento e apreço pelas variações regionais que temos no Brasil, tendo o cuidado de mencionar essa enorme diversidade, e não fazer parecer que o sotaque da sua região é representativo de todo o país, como alguns fazem. Parabéns pelo conteúdo. :)

Excellent video!! I loved how the brazilian girl gave atention and explained properly about the different brazilian accents!

Eu sendo goiano: - Pelo menos agente tem facilidade em falar ingles por causa do 'R'. kkkkkkk

It was so much fun watching this video, you guys are having such a good time and it just really added to the wonderful overall mood of the video. Thanks so much! It also helped explain something about how the Brazilians pronounce the D and the T that I’ve never quite understood. I love both types of Portuguese, and as Liz says, there’s no right and wrong. Just two sides of a beautiful language.

A brasileira foi tão simpática e cativante, Brasil é Brasil!

Que mineira mais fofolete, vontade de guardar no bolso! Linda, sorridente, bem-humorada! 😍

Excelentes vídeos! Parabéns. Keep up the good work!

Omg, you guy's are soooo fun! This is so helpful for me, my wife speaks Azorean Portuguese and my son in law speaks Brazilian Portuguese. I have been trying to learn Portuguese for a few years now and it is very hard to find books and/or other literature in European Portuguese. Most of my practice tools are in Brazilian Portuguese and I seem to do better with Brazilian than European. I believe there is a difference in Azorean Portuguese also. No matter what I don't let it deter me, I just roll with what I have and adjust as I go along. I just found your channel through your Expats Everywhere collaboration. ; )

The "L" sound is different between the two countries - With the Brazilian sound much more like an an English "w" (Portugaw instead of Portugal) Nice video- that was fun: thank you!

Essa brasileira representou muito bem o Brasil!

I'm from Coimbra but I absolutely love listening to Brazilian because I agree it sounds so happy like a song it just flows!

Hi. Here's my two cents on this topic. There is one major difference between Portuguese from Portugal and that from Brazil (which was refered to in the comments as "eating syllables"). Well, as you know, English is a STRESS-TIMED language (which means it takes the same time to say "one and two and three and four" and "one and then a two and then a three and then a four". This is because "and then a" being all unstressed and, consequently, "rushed" in between the stressed words. Portuguese from Portugal is also a stress-timed language. On the other hand, Portuguese from Brazil is a SYLLABLE-TIMED language, which means there is no "accomodation" of weak sounds between the stressed words and, because of this, sentences tend to be much longer in terms of pronunciation. Consequently, I would say that it is easier for a speaker of English to learn Portuguese from Portugal than that from Brazil.

" feliz como pinto no lixo " JAAKKAJANAIAGAIAQBWU eu amo as nossas gírias cara 😂😂😂

Really interesting and enjoyable. I've learnt most of my Portuguese in Brazil but am off to Lisbon next month, so very relevant for me. Question: is there an asymmetry in comprehension between Brazilians and Portuguese? Brazilian friends tell me it is really difficult to understand European Portuguese. But Portuguese seem to have fewer problems understanding Brazilians. (I think Brits understand Americans better than vice versa.)

I have only been learning Portuguese for a month but i am loving it! I'm ok with learning words and have a fair few hundred down pat, but I am struggling with genders sooooo much! I really love your videos, they are massively helping :) obrigada

Muito legal este vídeo para mim que falo português como segunda língua. A verdade que nunca percebi muitas dessas diferenças, mas sem importar qual sotaque o variedade da língua, o idioma português sempre terá um lugar muito importante na minha vida. Saudações, amigos lusófonos.

Omg my friends and I fight about this all of the time. I am American but I listen to lots of Portuguese media yet only have Brazilian friends. They are all from vastly distinct parts of the country therefore speak in their own distinct way. I do have a special affection for Manaus accent.

I am moving to Portugal soon and super glad I came across this video! I needed to learn these differences in a clear way.

I'm very proud of my language! Sou brasileiro e tenho muito orgulho do português! Ótimo vídeo! Minas representando bem.

Three Portuguese speakers talking to each other in English. Oops ... me too!

Brazil has way more variations and accents than Portugal, each State has its own accents.

Liz, parabéns pela sua fluência na língua portuguesa. Aqui no Brasil você não dificuldade nenhuma para se comunicar. Assisto muito produções portuguesas e não tenho dificuldade para entender o português europeu. É só treinar o ouvido e a maneira de pronunciar as vogais mais fechadas além dos portugueses não usar muito o gerúndio. Parabéns pelo canal e pela iniciativa. Ficou muito criativo e divertido.

Great video thanks

In Goa our older generation speak a little more of a Portuguese accent, wish I had learnt it.

In many parts of the south of Brazil people pronounce saúDE (instead of "saúdji"), leiTE (instead of "leitchi") using a soft D or T and open E... I'd first say that is a stereotype for Curitiba accent about people saying "leiTE quenTE da dor DE denTE na genTE", but later I noticed it's also common in the central part of Paraná and some parts of Santa Catarina state.

I loved this video! There's is also the accent from the South of Brazil (where I'm from), where we pronunciate the letter E in the end of the word differently than the examples in the video. It's a very open E: dentE, quentE.

This was such a fun video. l was practicing along with yall.

Aqui no Ceará é muito comum trocar o "e" por "i". Exemplo: Escola ser pronunciado como (I)scola.

Olá Liz! Gostaria de dar-te os parabéns por seres a pessoa estrangeira com a melhor pronúncia de português de Portugal que eu jamais ouvi! Não é nada fácil conseguir o grau de proficiência que tu conseguiste! Parabéns pelo canal! Keep up the good work.

Viva a diferença!! Um carioca que adora o sotaque português

A dona do canal tem um dos inglês mais claros de compreender que eu já ouvi!

Nice job! I've seen other videos on the difference between BP and EP but this one is the best (and most entertaining).

Gosto da dica de sobre como pronunciar a letra “r”...”catapult”! Este vídeo ajudou-me com o meu pronúncia! Consegui ouvir as diferenças! Ótimo vídeo a todos!

Amazing Video. Congrats.

O fato de, em alguns lugares, haver um I na pronúncia de palavras como "arroz", "paz", "faz" (logo "arroiz", "paiz", "faiz") é legitimamente uma característica da pronúncia brasileira e não um erro. Aliás, é um fenômeno fonético estudado e aceito linguisticamente.

Love this - especially as I've been teaching some of the different regional pronunciations in E English this week!

This was so fun to watch, love the energy! One of my favorite differences is how sei sounds like “sai” in Portugal, and the same with bem sounding like “baim”

Que bom que a Carol comenta que essa pronúncia é a de onde ela vem... Porque, como ela mesma diz, há muitos sotaques diferentes no Brasil. 🥰

Na minha opinião Português é uma língua muito linda e muito rica

Mas (but or however): Most Brazilians pronounce MAIS which is a different word (more or plus).

Loved it. Especially cause you don't take part in any specific accent and do ease the tension between both countries :) I also think there's no need to choose either a favorite or correct one!

Really great video 👍🏽

Very well explained

A diferença é q o português de Portugal é falado timed stress e o português do Brasil é falado sílaba stress, basicamente uma redução da palavra para pronunciar a sílaba mais importante, e no Brasil geralmente falamos todas sílabas

Que lindos!!! Amei os 3, inscrito!

Muito divertido o video, amei!

Eu amei este formato do vídeo!!

Aqui em Natal nós não falamos " gentche" nem " djiferentche", aqui pronunciamos o Di, De e o Ti , Te sem chiar. Isso me ajudou quando aprendi italiano.😊

You're like a British version of Carina Fragozo, from the channel English in Brazil! You two look really alike.

Great video, thanks

Great video. Parabens!

I love this comparison and the observations that the brazilian representant has done, she took a look to many variations of the accents as the portuguese one. I'm from Belém, state of Pará, and my accent is quiet simillar to the Carioca em Portuguese one hehe. Greetings from Belém!

Wonderful description! Your accent in Portuguese is excellent!

This is a very pleasant conversation! What a nice way to learn a language!

Sou do Rio, é bem divertido ver os sotaques do próprio Brasil e o de Portugal. Melhor ainda quando é em inglês o vídeo, porque eu treino inglês com um conteúdo que eu curto bastante!

Um dos melhores vídeos falando sobre nossas diferenças lingüísticas. O bônus do vídeo foi que me diverti assistindo esse bate-papo.

Next time try to get a person with a strong accent from Minho region or Porto or other portuguese regions to see the differences.

A lot of these sounds are just a matter of accent in Brazil , except the L sound in the end of a word that we Brazilians pronounce like an U

I never realised the English ‘H’ sound and the Portuguese ‘R’. I’m so glad I have found your channel as it’s made me improve my Portuguese and keeping me practicing every day

Rolled R is more in the interior of Portugal. Costal Portugal is more like French R

Vim pensando que tinha legenda em português.

Great video, guys. Cheers from Spain!

I really enjoyed the video!

Excellent its was fun to watch it❤️

I'd say that the "T" and "D" braziian pronunciation differs when "E" or "I" follow them, and it is the last syllable. Ex: "DENTE" may sound like "DENTCHI" in some places, the same as "ONDE" sounds like "ONDJI". The "DE" is pronounced differently. Also, in some places (like the northeast) the "T" and "D" have the same pronunciation as in Portugal.

I loved it, thank you❤️

Thanks so much. Helped me in my consideration which variation to grab when starting to learn Portuguese. And as you said: Both are fascinating and - like in Spanish and any other languages - all have their charms.

Aí que invejinha Kkk.. noossa eu amo esse jogo de português com inglês que os três fazem. Eu quero muito chegar a esse nível de fluência algum dia . É lindo de ver

On a European Portuguese RU-vid site, it was explained that the French-style R sound at the end of the word exists in Portugal, in Setúbal.

Cool video! Your discussion about r sounds reminded me of my difficulties in learning Spanish. One thing that helped me learn the Spanish soft r sound (alveolar tap, I think??) (different from the rolled r) is that the American sound for t in some words is the same sound, as you mentioned with the example of “ca/t/apult” (with American accent).

thank you