Both Baltic languages sounds totally different.
<< I dont' speak Portuguese . I understand some Portuguese because I speak a Romance language but I don't find Portuguese and Russian to sound similar. I think that before comparing how two languages sound, one must clean his ears so he can perceive the sound clearer. >>
The best candidates to judge are people who don't understand Portuguese nor Russian at all.
I admit now that I know both languages it's hard for me to say they're similar, simply because now I understand them, and I know that they are two completely different languages, but for someone who has no knowledge whatsoever upon the two languages and doesn't understand them, they sound totally similar.
Just ask Portuguese people who are or have been in a foreign (not Latin or Slavic) country how often they were mistaken for speaking Russian. A considerable number of Portuguese experienced this.
"Just ask Portuguese people who are or have been in a foreign (not Latin or Slavic) country how often they were mistaken for speaking Russian. A considerable number of Portuguese experienced this".
More than Russian I'd say that Portuguese may sound like other slavic languages, for instance Polish, at least Polish has nasal vowels as Portuguese. In my view Russian has a peculiar and distinctive accent.
Portuguese sounds like Portuguese and not like ANY slavic language. Zh sound is totally different and so is everything else. Please stop with this nonsense.
To me it's like when people say that Chinese and Japanese sound the same. It's all ching-chong to them, they say.
It's ignorant.
Castillian Spanish and Greek sound similar, they both have few sounds and most of them are shared
Chinese and Japanese don't sound alike. I think people are confused because of the Chinese characters they see. I don't know how many times I've heard this. I think people are ethnocentric when I hear this. I think, "Oh you probably don't care about people in Bangladesh either." Of course, I don't say anything except that no, they actually sound different.
I don't think Portuguese and Russian sound alike, but I like that "zh" sound and its variations.
My brother speaks both Greek and Spanish and thinks they sound similar in some ways.
Latvian has strong Finno-Ugric influence. Latvian is probably more Finnic as Baltic language at least phonetically :)
Portuguese has a slavic accent. And so what?
The germanic invasion came from the slavic area. The taifa of Badajoz had a slavic ruler . The taifa of Lisbon had two slavic rulers sons of the above. There were lots of slavs known as sqaliba in the Iberian peninsula.
Nothing new.
Spanish has slavic accent.
That`s interesting, also to my hears Portuguese people have Slavic accent when speking, let`s say English :-)
slavic language stinks, Germany overtakes them again
Spanish is the ugliest latin languages
All latin languages are ugly.
Germanic languages are even uglier
It's impossible, no language can be uglier and more affected than Italian and French.