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10. Ten Pronunciation Mistakes Brazilian Portuguese Speakers Make
The InFluency Podcast
The Stress Patterns of Brazilian Portuguese
In Brazilian Portuguese whenever you have a long word, usually the primary stress falls on one of the last three syllables in a word. In American English that's not always the case. So sometimes especially when we talk about long words you may apply the stress patterns of Brazilian Portuguese unto English. This is why I'm going to share my video about the R in the description below. The next challenge is the schwa which is a reduced vowel that occurs only in unstressed syllables. Since the schwa does not exist in Brazilian Portuguese then speakers of that language may not pronounce it as a real sound because it's so small.
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