>>510049691
portuguese also looks indistinguishable even from italian when in written form, yet we don't understand each other at all. european and brazilian portuguese are spoken in different speeds and accents, brazilian portuguese being spoken with elongated vowel sounds, its clearer and easier to pronounce, while european portuguese shortens and reduces it, its close to slavic in a way. Unless a brazilian is used to hanging around portuguese people or watching content in their language, he will struggle to understand day to day conversations when the portuguese speaks fast without a care if the other party understands them or not.