When pronouncing a simple word in another language, it is possible to observe a lot of difficulty. A Brazilian speaking Spanish, for example, may carry a lot of accent. The cultural difference in Brazil itself includes a very large sound difference when pronouncing something that is from another region. Among diversities in the same language, there are the difficulties that only foreigners face.
Portuguese is not an easy language
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The Portuguese language shows itself as a true challenge, because even Brazilians have difficulty mastering grammar. There are those who even defend that there are “brasis”, different languages, different people and different Portuguese, presenting itself differently in many regions.
The language also has a strong social variant, as Portuguese is not the only language spoken throughout Brazil. A WordTips survey guided the hardest city names to pronounce and guess which one comes first? That's right, a very Brazilian city!
‘Rio de Janeiro’ topped the difficulty ranking
The WordTips survey named the city of Rio de Janeiro as the most difficult for foreigners to pronounce. Who has never heard a completely muddled ‘Rio de Janeiro’ being uttered by someone from another country? Classic scene!
To stipulate the ranking, the research carried out a survey of data in the digital dictionary of pronunciations known as Forvo. This is the largest online pronunciation site, including.
Firstly, Rio de Janeiro was among the highest repeats among surveys, reaching seven million repeats. People from other countries were looking to know how to pronounce the name of the city in Rio.
Following the wonderful city, there were Tokyo, Chicago and Porto. In Spain, Barcelona won by leaps and bounds, followed by London, England.
The difficulty of pronouncing ‘Rio de Janeiro’ lies in the very formality of the local Portuguese language, due to the different accents and phonemes present in the language. The large number of syllables and the fact that it is a long name for a city can be the main reasons for difficulty for native English speakers, for example.
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