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Brazilians actually don't care if you pronounce things wrong. they will be just amazed if you say anything in their language. This is so sweet and inspiring!

Eu amo a ideia de usarem brasileiros e não portugueses pra representar a língua portuguesa kkkkkkkkk

I always find interesting how we as Brazilians can understand more of Spanish, Italian and even French than otherwise

Vocês não fazem ideia do quanto eu dou risada vendo norte-americano tentar falar português kkkkkkk

Both 3 languages are similar in grammar, but when it comes to pronunciation portuguese is harder, because both Spanish and Italian are pronounced the same way it is written, unlike Portuguese. Spanish and Italian have 5 vowel sounds and they are always pronounced the same way no matter where they are located in a word, while Portuguese has several vowel sounds (closed vowels, open vowels and nasal vowels) and some consonants too and all them can be pronounced differently depending on where it is placed in the word (start, middle, end) or which letter come before or after them. Therefore, learning Spanish and Italian pronunciation by reading texts is far easier, but Portuguese (like French) can be really tricky. Now talking about grammar, all them are almost the same.

Native Portuguese speakers understand native Spanish and Italian speakers better than vice versa. Spaniards, Mexicans and Italians cannot understand a conversation between a group of Brazilians, but a Brazilian can understand a conversation between a group of Mexicans, for example. It's strange, but it's real.

Ive been working on my Portuguese on duo lingo. I speak Spanish and English fluently, and I find it fascinating how Portuguese has a lot of shared vowel sounds between both languages. My wife and parents still have Spanish accents, and they’ve struggled a lot more with some Portuguese words I’ve tried to teach them. It’s such a beautiful language!

*Vovô* wears a _hat_ (^) 👴🏽 *Vovó* wears a _pin_ (`) 👵🏽 That's how we Brazlians lear in Elementary School 😂

Eu acho incrível como pode estar um Brasileiro, um Espanhol e um Italiano em uma roda de conversa cada qual falando seu idioma e nós sempre nos entendemos

Andrea, Ana and Sofia have shown a huge amount of kindness to Shallen in helping her. I know Shallen is trying her best in pronouncing the words but I feel she really needs to let go of the insecurity & self doubt.

Portuguese is a beautiful, romantic language and feels like a song being sung.❤

"Encantada de conocerte" is Andrea's best phrase , in all these World Friends videos with Andrea in this one is her mark 😂

the Spanish girl is so nice either teaching or trying to learn other languages

i like how they pronounce a word and then it is pronounced in a totally different way , especially considering these languages are similar to each other

Muito bom. Quão belo é o português brasileiro.

I love the Italian girl when she said “ just add fire “ lol 😂

Vovô/vovó along with “joão” are the ultimate pronunciation challenges for anyone trying to learn Portuguese

as a Brazilian I think that if you are interested in learning Portuguese you don't need to be so paranoid about the pronunciation, learn everything in your time and with practice you will be able to speak it well, if you are learning Portuguese and you are going to talk to a Brazilian we will understand you even if it has a slightly different pronunciation, so no worries ❤🇧🇷

Oh my goodness, I could listen to Portuguese and Italian all day long! 🥰 Living in South Florida in the US, I hear Spanish every day. Still, it's cool hearing her Spanish accent.

When I was a kid the way I was taught VOVÔ (grandpa) and VOVÓ (grandma) is that grandpa has a hat and granda has a hair clip.

For some people in the comments, Portuguese does NOT have a phonetically-based writing (i.e it is not spoken as it is written). Most native speakers think so, because they are really used to it, but it's not true. First of all, open and nasal vowels are not marked by accents in maybe half of the cases or more (e.g. manhã - both vowels are nasal; muito has a nasal diphtong; porta and porto have open and closed "o" sounds respectively, etc.), many vowel sounds are added or removed depending on the word(e.g. madeira is mostly pronounced /madera/; excelente is pronounced /eixcelente/ in many regions), the letter "x" may have 4 different sounds (caixa - /caisha/; exato - /ezato/; exceto - /esseto/ or /eisseto/; prefixo - /preficso/), the letters "m" and "n" at the end of the word are just not pronounced and turn the vowels nasal (e.g. falam, cólon, etc.), the letter "r" may be pronounced in several ways (rato - /hato/; caro - /caro/; carro - /caho/; torto - /torto/ with many variations according to region) and may be pronounced or not when at the end of the word, the letter "l" is pronounced as "u" (vowel) at the end of the word in Brazil, "z" has different sounds too (zebra, paz - pronounced /pas/ or /paish/ depending on the region, and the sound may change depending on the word coming after it, e.g. paz e amor: /paziamor/ or /paiziamor/), and maaaany other cases. Not to mention there are open vowels, closed vowels, nasal vowels, including nasal diphtongs, semivowels everywhere, etc. :)

I love all 3 of these languages. I found Brazilian Portuguese the hardest to learn the rules, but once you understand the dipthongs, I love how it rolls off the tounge.

Eu amo nossa Aninha 😂 ela combina muito com espanhola. São tão divertidas juntas. 👌

I'm Brazilian, i love Italy🇧🇷❤🇮🇹

ANDREA is always elegant, very polite and welcoming to speak. Make me want to know her. Espetacular!

Heh. The naughtyness in the Brazilian girl's eyes as soon as she saw one of those nasal dyphtongs of ours, and the way she wanted everybody to try them out, just put a smile on my face. I had the very same naughty feelings a while back when Portugal chose for finance minister (i.e., someone who had to talk with many, many foreigners on a regular basis) a dude named João Leão. It's a bit of a "mwahahahaha" kind of feeling, you know? :)

To make it easier to understand which is grandpa and which is grandma, we use a simple mnemonic rule with the kids, grandpa uses a hat(^ on "vovô") and grandma likes to knit (´ on "vovó" wouldbe a knit needle). That's how we teach our kids the difference between a closed o ("ô" like the o in ocean) and an open o ("ó" like the o in hot)

A pronúncia do italiano é linda demais!

l Love Ana from brazil! 🇧🇷😂❤

também é importante lembrar a diversidade gigantesca de sotaques do português, tanto nos outros países que falam a língua portuguesa quanto dentro do brasil.

Spanish has the most straightforward pronounciation but is spoken in more countries so they have a ton of accents .italian pronounciation is easy but the rising and falling melodic intonation can be a challenge but it is only spoken in a few countries so their is not a lot of accents to worry about.portuguese is the most challenging but it is a gorgeous language to listen to

Hi. The italian lady looks so calming

I love Andrea from Spain, she’s always so sweet, kind and polite. It’s lovely how she exudes positive vibes, it makes the video more entertaining and enjoyable to watch. She’s one of my favorite people in this channel lol.

Like French, Portuguese has quite a few sounds and sound combinations English just doesn't have, consequently it's more difficult for English speakers than Spanish and Italian.

Cara, sempre fico impressionado com o quanto o nosso idioma é sempre considerado tão difícil e, ao mesmo tempo, como nós conseguimos falar até que bem a maioria dos idiomas (sem contar as enrolações clássicas que nem o portunhol pra se virar com nossos vizinhos aqui da América do Sul). As palavras mostradas nos outros idiomas parecem fáceis da gente pronunciar antes mesmo das meninas falarem o correto (apesar que contrarreloj foi pra ferrar qualquer um).

As a russian, i tried to learn spanish and portuguese, spanish was way harder, they speak too fast i can't understand a word, also language has a very different flow compared to russian, and thrilling r is impossible. Portuguese was muuch easier, many sounds are the same, except nasal ones, most ppl speak very slowly, and flow is more similar, also brazilian version sounds very beautiful for me. So i guess it depends what language is closer to your native one.

I guess all the Romance languages are difficult for English speakers😁 Especially grammar. One a little more, one a little less.But I love them all 🇷🇴🇪🇸🇵🇹🇮🇹🇫🇷❤🤗💪

Realmente, o português é uma língua bem difícil. E a gramática é mais difícil ainda! Mas amo a minha "língua mãe". ❤

Most foreigners cannot correctly pronounce the sound "ão", exemplified in the word "excepção" in the video. Many have been practicing and speaking Portuguese for years, but even so they don't pronounce this sound the right way, and sometimes they arrive at a bakery asking for "pau" (dick), instead of "pão" (bread), this is a commonplace and funny situation that happens in Brazil. ;)

I am very thankful to say that I speak English because I was born in California. I speak Spanish because both of my parents are born and raised in Mexico. I speak Portuguese, Brazilian, Portuguese, because My Husband is from the north east of Brazil. Italian is another language I am trying to learn, so I’m very thankful to be a part of this to see my languages in my eyes lol

love how everyone is some level of energic, and then they all turn to the italian girl and she's like soft mood

As a Brazilian, I love to see my people being so charismatic and friendly with others. Because that's how I would act if it were me there.

The italian girl is so soft spoken! I love herrr

Very very nice post. Greetings from Brazil. Thanks for sharing this.

Tip for Vovô and Vovó: ô = eau (pronunciation for water in french - google it if you're not familiar with) ó = it would be closer to the O in Cloth.

Caramba as 4 são uma pintura de lindas.

Around 60% - 70% of the words in Spanish can be found in Portuguese. So, this similarity only can be found in these languages. Sometimes, even two persons may hold a conversation in their mother languages, and both are still capable to understand each other 🙂. Well, I've been working in an international company for more than 18 months, and after a year, I can understand, write and speak more in Portuguese. Reading could be kind of easy, but the pronunctiation and grammar becomes challenging if you are not familiar with the phonemes. These are tricky, specially if you are learning Portuguese from Brazil. For me it's a little bit more difficult, but very fun to learn🙂. Obrigrado!

Os gringos mesmo os que falam línguas românicas tem dificuldade em pronunciar o som anasalado. Os russos tem mais facilidade em reproduzir o português pois temos bastante similaridade na fonética.

5:12 note: "Izquierda" is one of the few examples of words of Basque (Euskara) origin entering up in Spanish and Portuguese (Esquerda)

What makes Brazilian Portuguese even harder, alongside with the grammar rules, phonetic rules, it is the mix of Portuguese, Spanish, Ancient Tupi, Tupi-Guarani, African Dialects and Arabic, it also has a lot of influence from immigrants from France, Germany, Italy and Japan. We have a lot of words from indigenous languages, like abacaxi, mandioca, macaxeira... So people from other countries, even from other latin languages speaking countries, don't understand.

Yasssss this video is all that i need today.

Como me encanta este grupo🥰🥰🥰

Sempre bom ver a Ana, sou muito cadelinha dela

It's wonderful to see the commonalities between Español/Castellano, Português Brasileiro, y Italiano. Soy un salvadoreño here in LA and, I think I can hang with Portuguese. Grammatically it looks very similar. Italian is of course, romantic. Unfortunately not a common language here in the Americas.

São muito fofinhas!!!!! Amei o vídeo!!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻😍😍😍

I loved how nice and patient they all were with the american girl and she is just not confident enough but she did great

Lmao!!! The Italian girl is such a mood. And Andrea cracked me up with the hand on her throat thing 😅😂😂

Many foreigners have trouble with our "Ç". The word exceção the ç sound like /s/. In the word cão the c does not have the accent so it sounds like a proper c, /k/. French people have an easier time because they also have "ç".

Muito legal ... adorei....very nice...

I don't know among the Latin language what is the hardest to learn , but in the world Portuguese isn't even close to number one to learn in the world , there're many languages way more hard to learn

Chamaram uma brasileira pra representar o português

The funniest thing is that we understand what each person says in their own language. In other words, everyone can speak calmly in their own language and the conversation will flow on many things. I think the hardest thing to understand is French.

Great video

It was soooo cute the woman saying the latin words! Is she tryed to speak with me, I dont care, if we can understand each other. I love so much this union!!! ❤❤❤ Ow, and different locations inside of Brazil with many different accents and many native people saying wrong gramatically that is almost impossible for a brazilian to be mad or to not understand what a foreigner is saying in portuguese, or even in spanish or italian.

Italian is fancy hahah saludos desde COL

Portuguese does sound difficult

With all due respect, what a team! Beautiful girls

Andrea and Ana are so beautiful. They are so funny together. Everytime they're on a video a laugh a lot.

its interesting how the three girls were very curious about the other two languages and trying to learn, while the american was just not even trying it seems.

I like the tip the Italian girl said for pronouncing contrarreloj: "Just add fire" XD XD As a Spanish native speaker, I totally agree XD XD ¡El español es fuego puro, nene! XD XD

BBC report: English language: -It uses and depends on the Roman alphabet. -60% of its vocabulary comes from Latin, compared to only 26% of Germanic vocabulary. -Its grammar is not completely Germanic, it has parts of grammatical structure from Latin. For this reason, philologists consider the English language a hybrid language. The information in this video is correct. By the way, I'm English, greetings from London.

Always when I watch this videos, the Brazilian girl goes better than the others. May someone explain me why? it seems that brazilian girls has a nicest way to talk and they transmit a nicest energy as well. I am falling in love for Brazilians.

Spanish is funny. I love Mexican accent because of RBD 😂❤

Shallen, don’t feel badly because you struggled because EVERYONE on the planet struggles to learn something. I don’t find these languages super hard because I speak a Romance language but I tried to learn Vietnamese, I butchered it. 😂 my problem wasn’t so much pronunciation but inflection. If the syllable inflections aren’t entirely right the the meanings are completely different. I think I offended a few people on accident. 😂

As a Brazilian I have to love Ana, but the Italian girl sounds and looks so sultry, damn!

I will watch anything with Ana in it I swear

I love Andrea from Spain

Vovô -> ô sounds like in "go" Vovó -> ó sounds like in "got" Easy

Todas são lindas!

bel video.... congrats for all......... e em especial........un saluto alla bionda che é cmq muy hermosa.... ciao sofia! vem aki pro brasil!!! ;)

não é porque sou Brasileiro, mas a língua mais bonita na minha opinião é o Português Brasileiro.

Fun Fact: in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries we learn that "America" is the name of a continent/landmass. North America + Central America + South America = America. Generally, we don't associate "America" with the country the United States of America. We just say "Estados Unidos", that means "United States".

It's really cute to hear foreigners speaking Portuguese

a pretty good helper to pronouce the "ão" sound in portuguese is to check for similar pronounces in english. são/ção can be quite similar to "sound" but without the d pão is the same thing, but with "pound".

A italiana é uma super professora!

I think this goes for these three romance languages, once you learn how to read the letters and its variations (such as ô/ó), you will say it as you write it, which doesn't happen in English. If you see the word "exceção", you know the "xc" sounds like an s and so does the "ç", and they will always sound like that. Whereas in English, if you have the word "read", for example, the "ea" combination won't always have the same sound. That's why English pronunciation is so confusing for foreigners. I mean, let's be honest, it doesn't make any sense. Especially for those who speak romance languages.

Shallen, Andrea and Sofia the 3 of them are so nice and beautiful! 😊

I 'd like to see Ana from Portugal in this group🙏

Realmente os americanos não se esforçam para falar outros idiomas 😂

A garota italiana é um anjo 😍

As an American with far more exposure to and practice with Mexico Spanish vs Castellano, it fascinates me that Andrea sees the Mexican s/z as softer vs the castellano since I've always seen it the other way around. I like both, regardless. Andrea and Ana always seem like rays of sunshine.

A verdadeira é que os falentes de língua inglesa são muito acomodados e preguiçosos em aprender outras línguas !

A word that is also very difficult for foreigners to pronounce in Portuguese is "mexilhão" (mussel).

8:38 Please stop using that gesture so randomly, it has its own meaning and therefore is not used for every Italian word, RESPECT US and be fascinated by our culture instead of mocking us.

Kkkkkk... muito legal! Agora "exceção" quebrou até a espanhola kkkkk...

A very nice and funny video.

A Ana é muito linda, mds.

As an Italian speaker, Spanish is understandable, but Portuguese? There might be things that are similars but it impossible to understand without knowing it, expect for basic stuff 😭

oi, prazer em conhecer !!

Las cuatro son adorables! Ciertamente para mi también es más difícil el portugués