Thread 212617891

>>212617891 (OP)
"OW"

>>212617929
That's more like "au". If you try to pronounce "ão" like that here it would lead to some funny misudestardings.

gringo don't need to

>>212617891 (OP)
It's like saying the "oh" sound but through your nose right?

>>212617929
Nasal semivowel.

https://voca.ro/1myHhkezGwKi

Yes I can

>>212618328
You said ~/aʊ̯/ and not [ɐ̃ʊ̯̃] though

>>212618467
I don't know what that means

>>212619251
you did not do it, bong. i'm sorry.
its more like this
https://voca.ro/16h1wwx6olbw

>>212617891 (OP)
ão exists in polish as ą

>>212619412
I said it the Portuguese way

>>212619412
It just sounds like you're saying "ow", but in a very camp way.

>>212619563
No you didn't. if a tuga brother were here, he would agree with me.
>>212619633
idk what you mean by that but it seems like the correct way is the very camp way

it's surprising how many foreigners can't make our nasal sounds, I thought it would be easy to get used to it, just have to use your nose brah

>>212617891 (OP)
This is a trap. The more people say it incorrectly the first time, the worse their subsequent attempts will get.
>>212619633
Yeah, camp people nasalize their vowels. Nasal vowels aren't phonemic in English like in Portuguese. It's kind of like how tones aren't phonemic in English, but they are in Chinese, so saying words with different tones sometimes doesn't matter and only conveys emotions in English, but they have to be consistent in Chinese.
Sometimes people (at least here) will pronounce mountain as "mõwt'n" rather than "mount'n". It's kind of like that.

>>212617891 (OP)
If they put effort into it they can, but 99% of them can't be bothered to pronounce it properly with that nasal tone. It's like ESLs who don't bother to pronounce th properly.
On discord, I used to have a nickname with "ao", and even though it didn't have the tilde over the a, every single english native speaker struggled to pronounce ao, even without all the nasality.

>>212621385
Because you went onto English speaking discords and they therefore assumed you were an English speaker you dumb CUNT why the fuck would they know that "ao" meant the Portuguese ão and not just the letters a and o

>>212621561
Calm the fuck down, Nigel. It's not my fault you angloids can't pronounce such a simple vowel combination.
And I didn't expect them to pronounce it with any nasality like in portuguese. Just the "a" and "o" together made english speakers almost have a stroke trying to say my name, to the point I changed it out of pity.

>>212621738
I would assume it's an acronym and just say it like the English letters: "ay oh." I could pronounce it correctly for Portuguese (maybe not the nasalization) but it would sound like a I'm pronouncing a foreign word in a foreign accent, which is pretentious, and so I would probably just start saying "ow" eventually.

>>212617891 (OP)
why would anyone even try to pronounce that
brazilian language is pretty much useless

No one needs portuguese doe