Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish)
Lots of people say that Portuguese sounds like Russian. Why?! In this video I examine some of the similar sounds of Portuguese and Russian (and Polish as well). * Learn Russian with RussianPod101: ► ◄ Or learn Portuguese with PortuguesePod101: ► ◄
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Special thanks to Carlos Costa for his Portuguese audio samples. Russian and Polish samples are from Wikicommons (links at bottom).
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Music: “Otis McMusic“ by Otis McDonald (intro and outro music).
Main: “Bizzie“ by The Grand Affair.
Russian and Polish sample links:
:Ru-всплеск.ogg
:Ru-под_(муж).ogg
:
00:00 The end of the video!
00:32 Many native speakers say Russian and Portuguese sound similar
01:57 Russian & Portugues are stress-timed languages
04:23 Russian & Portuguese feature frequent sibilant sounds
07:27 Russian and Portuguese have lots of palatalized consonants
08:28 The Dark L
08:56 Portuguese and Polish have nasal vowels
10:01 Final comments
10:35 The Question of the Day
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