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Yelof · 04-30-2004, 07:11 PM

Thanks for the recommendation on Cesaria Evora, she looks interesting.

As she is from Cabo Verde I might have particular difficulty in understanding her lyrics, Portuguese is spoken quite differently around the world, I saw a cool Brazilian film recently "Cidade de Deus", neither I my wife or her sister could understand the Portuguese of the Favala dwellers, we had to turn the subtitles on the DVD, the educated Brazillians were quite understandable.

Spanish I find strange to hear, writen you can see the clear links to Portuguese, but spoken they seem to slur everything together and speak too fast. Gallacian which is spoken in the NW of Spain is the opposite to hear it it sounds the same as Portuguese but they write it in a Spanish fashion.

04-30-2004, 07:11 PM	#5
Yelof neither here nor there Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 179	Thanks for the recommendation on Cesaria Evora, she looks interesting. As she is from Cabo Verde I might have particular difficulty in understanding her lyrics, Portuguese is spoken quite differently around the world, I saw a cool Brazilian film recently "Cidade de Deus", neither I my wife or her sister could understand the Portuguese of the Favala dwellers, we had to turn the subtitles on the DVD, the educated Brazillians were quite understandable. Spanish I find strange to hear, writen you can see the clear links to Portuguese, but spoken they seem to slur everything together and speak too fast. Gallacian which is spoken in the NW of Spain is the opposite to hear it it sounds the same as Portuguese but they write it in a Spanish fashion.