• 0x0@lemmy.zip
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    23 days ago

    Because Portuguese has many more vowels than Spanish and there are a lot of false friends between the two.

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      22 days ago

      To me, it sounds like Brazilian Portuguese (dunno about European Portuguese) has a ridiculous number of diphthongs.

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        22 days ago

        portguese brazillian has a ridiculous number of diphtongs? havr you seen english? it could be my bias as a native speaker but I don’t really see many diphtongs in brazillian portuguese