Once you get used to it it's easy, but many people don't have a lot of exposure and so they struggle with it. It's mostly because the Portuguese don't pronounce weaker vowels. Example: the word "excelente". In Brazil they pronounce it with four syllables "e-se-len-tchi", in Portugal it's one syllable "shlent".
Once you get used to it it's easy, but many people don't have a lot of exposure and so they struggle with it. It's mostly because the Portuguese don't pronounce weaker vowels. Example: the word "excelente". In Brazil they pronounce it with four syllables "e-se-len-tchi", in Portugal it's one syllable "shlent".
This depends on the region. I'm from the North and I would say it more like "ayshlent".