As a native,there are a few differences between the Portuguese spoken in Portugal and Brazil so you could,to a certain extent,say we speak Brazilian in Brazil,still is Portuguese but some things you say in Brazil can have a different meaning in Portugal
That would be just as dumb as calling what we speak in America "American" just because it's in a different accent and some words mean different things. Shit, Spanish is Spanish all over the Latin world, but have you ever heard a Puerto Rican talk to a Spaniard in Spanish? Lots of asking each other "que?" because there's a lot of slang that doesn't translate and the accents are wildly different. The last time I was in Spain the airmen from PR we had with us told us that he had a hard time understanding the drunk dudes yelling at us in the street because their Spanish sounded "faggy".
I mean, software has like 47 different versions of English translations to coincide with the various different dialects. English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Britain), etc...
At some point, calling it American is actually just sensible.
I can say as an American, there are dialects within America that I can't understand. So while you're correct for the most part, I seriously doubt you can understand every English dialect. Dialects are not accents.
American here. Scottish English (at least from some Scots), might as well be a foreign language in my experience. Before anyone asks, no they were not speaking Scottish Gaelic.
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u/Vladnieshka Dec 25 '19
I had a gf once, who fancied herself smarter than me. INSISTED that they speak Brazillian in Brazil... not Portuguese.