European Portuguese: The Secret to Understanding FAST Portuguese

European Portuguese: The Secret to Understanding FAST Portuguese -- Learn practical examples of reduced words and swallowed sounds to gain confidence in understanding a fast conversation in European Portuguese! With this video, you’ll realize why Portuguese people speak so fast and cut out so many words - it will all make sense! Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal by Liz Sharma, a Portuguese teacher in Lisbon and founder of Talk the Streets.

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[Marques_]

Expectation: "Como é que te chamas?"

Reality: "Mék tchamas?"

[solanges.]

As a portuguese, I've never realized how hard it could be to understand us because we suppress some syllables/words. Sorry, guys 😅

[taks]

Muito obrigado por este vídeo. Eu sou do EUA e estou a aprender português, mais precisamente o europeu. Eu adoro a língua portuguesa e espero que algum dia eu possa ser fluente nela. Este vídeo foi ajudante para estrangeiros como eu.

[ravenluxi]

Eu sou português de Portugal e isto apareceu nos recomendados hehe
interessante ver como as coisas são do lado oposto

[Jack-lqjt]

I'm Portuguese and literally just came here to see what people think is hard about our language

[loremCSGO]

estrangeiro: como é que te chamas? tuga: na me chamo, chamam-me.

[RuteSaavedra]

Her: "Really difficult for people like you"
Me being portuguese: 👁️👄👁️

Loved the video because I didn't even notice some of these things, because (of course) it's so natural for us!

[gabriielsc]

in Portugal, "Como é que te chamas" is probably even worse to understand. In an informal environment, we "swallow" parts of the words so it would be like "Comé que tchamas?"

[ruinunes]

Eu estou a aproveitar é para aprender inglês consigo...🤣🤣🤣

[billdarby]

As a decent Brazilian style Portuguese speaker, it takes me a few weeks of immersion to "get" European Portuguese. The hardest was what I found on the Azore islands. It reminds me of a person from Mississippi trying to speak to somebody from Scotland.

[bxf]

Oh yes, yes, yes. I am an English speaker, living in Portugal, where "Escudos" is "shcoodsh", and "quatro" is "quat", "esta" is "ta", etc, etc, etc. Now let's join these half words together quickly. Very quickly, OK?

And yes, although the Portuguese don't see it that way, the Brazilian speech is easier for us to understand.

[happyapocalypse]

Someone has to say it: Portugal CARALHOOO

[pipaperu]

I love how someone finally talks about portuguese from Portugal TwT
A maioria só fala do português do Brasil, é bastante raro alguém falar do português de Portugal, muito obrigado pelo vosso reconhecimento para com o nosso país e idioma S2

[ktorn]

Fascinating. As a native speaker I could only ever tell people that my language sounds "harsher" than spanish or brazilian portuguese because we "eat the words". Now I can sound smarter and explain that it's a stress-timed language.

[skaruts]

Personally, I even compress _"como é que te chamas"_ even more, like _"c'mekt chamas", _ or just _"mekt chamas"._ I had a math teacher who said _"maximo divisor comum"_ and _"minimo divisor comum"_ so often that he became accustomed to abbreviate them to _"max'm zô' c'mum"_ and _"min'm zô' c'mum", _ and he stated that lightning fast. (Best math teacher I ever had, too).

[JoaoSantos-zmin]

Funny fact, i'm a portuguese native and i never realized that we sound harder to understand, great job...

[TheSockdologer]

So unlike its latin-based neighbors, european portuguese is *stress* timed. mind blown 🤯

[Gongasoso]

There's a fundamental, broad-spectrum difference between Spanish and Portuguese that hasn't been addressed

Portuguese speakers swallow _vowels_, Spanish speakers swallow _consonants_

_Cómo te llamas_ becomes _'ómo teyama'_

_Como é que te chamas_ becomes _komek tchamas_ (or even _mek tchamas_ )

[VanessaAmy]

I am trying to learn Portuguese at the moment as I am moving to Lisbon in September 😳 I regretted that I took French in school and not Spanish because I thought Spanish would have helped me much more. But when it comes to pronunciation and swallowing half of the sentence Portuguese is very similar to French!

[GoncaloMalhohut]

Very well impressed with this outstanding work. I’m Portuguese, don’t really need this service but… you kept my attention 👏👏👏👏 congrats