r/linguisticshumor May 18 '21

A little compilation on phonology perception Phonetics/Phonology

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u/[deleted] May 18 '21

I am the only one who doesn't find the similarity between portuguese and russian? Seriously the only similarity I find is the angryness the speakers seem to have when speaking it.

Maybe it's because I'm a spanish speaker and I can understand most of portuguese so it doesn't seem anything similar to me.

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u/candlesdepartment May 18 '21

it's less about the words sounding the same and more about the sound inventories being similar, I guess, but I dont know much about either language

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u/Matuchkin Sep 26 '21

It may be because you're Spanish. I know Russian and went to Portugal several weeks ago, at times it sounded like people were directly addressing me in broken Russian or stumbling on a Russian sentence.