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Oakster

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  1. I have a teacher here where I work that insists in speaking English with me despite she is here in Portugal for over 3 or 4 years. She speaks a decent Portuguese, it's understandable, so I really don't get why she hides behind her English.

    I have a few people like that where I work as well, they try to speak Portuguese if we are having a casual conversation, but if it's work-related then they default back to English, they are probably just afraid of making some language mistake that leads to a big work problem :)

  2. Yes, accents are really different from regions, but I imagine that happens with German too and all the other languages. Particularly the Açores accent is really difficult to understand, not mentioning some Brazilians and the African countries.

    I would say Açoreano is even harder to understand than Brazilian Portuguese or even Spanish :)

  3. I'm fluent in both Portuguese (native language) and in English, I can also speak Spanish at about a 75% level I'd say.

    Knowing English is pretty crucial in today's world if you want to connect with other cultures, most have at least a little grasp on English.

  4. I, as a Portuguese person who often speaks and have contact with brazilian people can tell you that there are alot of differences even though there isn't technically a Brazilian Portuguese. Portuguese is Portuguese and what they have is some kind of dialect. Portuguese people could understand brazilians better than they do understand Portuguese though, probably because our accent seems weird to them. Meanwhile, we're used to their accent when speaking our language.

    That just may be because we (Portuguese) are more accommodating of other cultures and languages, like for example how we make an effort to understand Spanish speakers and they don't even try to understand Portuguese.

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