Portuguese Teacher Gives a Tour of Brazilian Accents (+ infographic)
Channel: About Brazil
Date: 18/06/2022

Portuguese teacher Ricardo Filgueira explains the different accents across Brazil.

You will learn to recognize and how to make the accents of several capitals. 

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Before starting, I need to make two remarks:
1 - Not all people from the same region or city speak the same way.
2 - There is no better or worse accent. There is a different accent.

São Luís
The capital accent has a lot od diphthongization, when the sound of a vowel turns into the sound of a diphthong. This happens a lot when a syllable ends with a vowel followed by S or Z.

Salvador
Salvador accent is very similar to the São Luís accent.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a baiano accent and a maranhense accent.

Recife
Most people in Recife pronounce the S chiado.
When a Brazilian speaks “chiando”, it means that he pronounces the S with this sound: SH, Sh.
This way of pronouncing S chiado is also present in other parts of Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro
The champion city for chiado is Rio de Janeiro.
And besides the S chiado, the Rio accent also has a unique characteristic the sound of the letter R.

Belo Horizonte
The retroflex R arose from the difficulty that some indigenous peoples had to pronounce the R of European Portuguese.
This R is more present in the South region and in the Triângulo Mineiro.

Goiânia
The accents of Sul de Minas, Triângulo Mineiro and Goiânia are very similar.
You can only tell who is from Goiás and who is from Minas because of some expressions.

São Paulo
São Paulo is one of the largest immigration centers in Brazil and receives a huge number of Brazilians from all regions of Brazil.
That's why there are different ways of speaking here, several accents.

Curitiba
The most characteristic sounds of the Curitiba accent are the consonants t, d and the vowel e.
This way of speaking is a legacy of the strong European immigration during the 19th century.

Porto Alegre
The accents of Porto Alegre and Curitiba have some things in common.
For example, the presence of vibrant R and retroflex R.