Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish)

He also has one about Portuguese vs. Russian/Polish: [VIDEO] And extreme syllable-timed language family (opposite of these) are languages Tagalog, Malay, Indonesian. EVERY syllable is pronounced and it becomes a mouthful but there's a strict cadence that comes from it. Foreign words break it a bit but native words are "ma-ka-ba-la-bu-sa-ng-ah-ga-ta-na..." [LINK]

It’s because Pt-Pt is a stressed timed language vs Br-Pt which is a syllable timed language. Pt-Pt drops a lot of unstressed vowels whereas Br-Pt almost all syllables are pronounced. Langfocus did a video on why (European) Português sounds like Russian. [VIDEO]

It caught me off guard too, portugese from portugal do sound somewhat slavic if you're not familiar with either: [LINK] Even my slavic gf was tricked for a few seconds and wasn't sure if it was some kind of eastern language she wasn't aware of. And for the explanation [VIDEO]

> My wife is a native Russian speaker, and despite making numerous grammatical errors is far better understood than I am. There's an explanation for this [VIDEO]