- Difference in pronunciation between: a, á, ã, â and à
European Portuguese Sep 11, 2014 #5 Á and À are an open A (like in start), while  is a closed A (like
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Prescriptive grammarians say we should write "Ah, ah", but that looks ridiculous to me, because the aspiration is clearly before the vowel when we speak, and because "Ah!" is an interjection showing comprehension in Portuguese I write: haha hehe hihi These are onomatopoeia, so I don't think their spelling is too crucial Take your pick
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Portuguese verbs do have a few additional complications though when compared to spoken Spanish, such as the subjunctive future, the personal infinitive, and a larger number of irregular past participles (e g suspenso, eleito, entregue, preso, pago, pego, etc )
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Portuguese and Italian d sound the same, but Spanish d between vowels is similar to an English voiced th Both Portuguese and Italian have the sh sound in shoe, but general Spanish doesn't (a few dialects do, though)
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It has not become "naturalized" in my spoken Portuguese (although in written Portuguese, it's quite simple ) In the city I live in, Fortaleza, there is an even more complicated situation with a single spelling (but different accents) that results in three pronunciations and meanings, one of which is quite rude
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In this forum's Resources sticky, there are links to some websites where you can type a word, and listen to how it's pronounced in Portuguese Look them up here If you are familiar with phonetic notation, "Jo ã o" is pronounced [ʒwɐ̃u̯] (the [ɐ̃] should have a tilde on it, which stands for nasalization) As the other posters have noted
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