Edited sentence: In Brazil the "r" is pronounced as a regular "h" sound, for example, the Brazilian Portuguese word for Soda is refrigerante, pronounced HEY-frigeran-chay.Many people consider Brazilian Portuguese to sound like a mixture of Italian, Spanish and French.The European Portuguese dialect sounds very different than the Brazilian Portuguese for a number of reasons.The way that the "r" is pronounced in Portugal is as a very harsh "hh" sound that one might relate to German or even Hebrew.This, plus many other large differences make the Brazilian Portuguese sound much more meladic than European Portuguese