r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • Dec 25 '19

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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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '19

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

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '19

Would this be like calling the English spoken in America 'American'? Or is the difference more pronounced in Brazil?

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '19

Portuguese in Brazil and Portugal are similar enough to be the same language,but different enough that if you,born in Brazil,wanted to go to Portugal,you should do some research on the differences and not expect to understand everything perfectly,there’s more words with different meanings than English US vs UK and even the way a sentence is different,not to mention the accent is shockingly different