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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I just don't know why Portuguese sounds so much like Spanish
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Portugal was dismembered from spain shortly after the Reconquista.
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and Brazil speaks that rather than all of their surrounding neighbors
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There are mostly Spanish-speaking countries surrounding Brazil, yet the largest border between Brazil and another country is with France, since the French Guyana is not an independent country. There is also the formerly British Guyana where English is the official language, and Suriname where Dutch is the official language.
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Do people from Portugal have a different accent than Brazilians?
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Even within Brazil, accents vary a lot among different regions, yet it's mostly understandable for people from different regions, otherwise nobody would be able to understand what each other says. On a sidenote, recently Lula da Silva said he couldn't understand what a Portuguese said to him
