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Levente wrote:The first time when I saw written Portuguese, when I was listening to a song with subtitles,
the words "eu" and "meu" caught my attention because they look exactly like in Romanian
and that was the moment when I kind of became interested in the language.
Portuguese just looks so good on paper.
And after listening to some news the sound of it terrified me.
It sounded horrible but in a weird way it made me more interested.
I already knew Spanish and Romance languages are the only ones that I can somewhat "understand"
so that gave me more courage to learn it.
I didn't know anything about the economy of Brazil.
And anyway Spanish and Portuguese are not important languages here unless you watch telenovelas.
I just like the language in general and the fact that it's a big language and a learnable one.
The only thing that I didn't and still don't like about it is the difference between dialects
which at the beginning almost made me give up.
Prowler wrote:Yeah, BR PT and EU PT are considerable different. Hell, sometimes I think it would be better to consider both different languages.
And how did you end up liking a language that initially terrified you?
Levente wrote:Prowler wrote:Yeah, BR PT and EU PT are considerable different. Hell, sometimes I think it would be better to consider both different languages.
And how did you end up liking a language that initially terrified you?
That horrible sound made me like it more.
You know, it's like a horror movie. The movie scares you but that's why it's a good horror movie.
I just love that sh-sh-sh-sh sound of Portuguese.
About the difference between EU and BR I never viewed them
as different self-standing languages because on paper they look the same.
But when it comes to pronunciation things really tend to go downhill.
My first impression when hearing BR was: "Is it me or are they emphasizing every single vowel?"
I imagined it like Russian without consonants.
By scary I didn't mean aggressive, I wanted to say that it's not singy-songy.Prowler wrote:I really can't view Portuguese as a "scary language", to be honest. I mean, I don't think we sound aggressive or anything.
You forgot all the bunda.Yasna wrote:For the most part because of the number of speakers and its geographic spread. It's also nice that the main country it is spoken in has made some substantial gains in development. Wealthy economies generally have more money to spend on culture.
linguoboy wrote:My chief motivations for learning Portuguese are chatting up super hot Brazilian men and puzzling out the lyrics to Brazilian pop songs.
Lowena wrote:linguoboy wrote:My chief motivations for learning Portuguese are chatting up super hot Brazilian men and puzzling out the lyrics to Brazilian pop songs.
Like Sandy e Junior? They have a few great songs.
Yasna wrote:Wealthy economies generally have more money to spend on culture.
Rivaldo wrote:What exactly you mean?
This might be noticed in your country as well. The predominance of african arts in a great variety of aspects of united states arts, althought the african descendents are a small part of the population, seems to show that cultures that arrange to be out of the mainstream are usually the ones that produce the most valuable.
osias wrote:#bemvindo já tinha dado as boas vindas antes, você é muito inativo
Yasna wrote:That products of African-American culture such as jazz and rap are the most valuable elements of American culture is rather debatable.
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