about the dialect and the american base
posted by Deleted user in Azores forum
I'm sure the brazilian accent will help you go throw the language barrier, because we're Portuguese(not speak just about azoreans) are totally used to the brazilian portuguese, althought we do have a few differences on the language, a good way to make sure everyone will understand you, it's avoiding the use of slangs, because we have a big difference to them in a matter of slangs... also you will need some time to get used to our accent, because it does change from island to island and from place to place, for exemple I'm from São Miguel and we have a "lot" of micro accents inside our island, each place of the island have their own way to talk, but it doesn't make us to have problem to understand each other(by the way I'm just speaking about azorean people...not the ones from the mainland portugal...or the other archipelago of madeira, because those ones have serious problems to understand us)
for the first guy who answer you, I don't think our portuguese is that similar as you said, I'm from azores and I already went to lisbon for a couple of times and the first times I went there noone understand me, because of my "Micaelense accent" so I had to learn to speak slowly..and speak each word correctly without being feeding myself with the latters of each word....(yes we do speak fast...at point to "eat" letter lool)
and to answer the last guy, the island you're talking about it's the "Terceira Island" they has an "american base" (althought it's not really american..it's just rent by them...) and I can't give you more information about the island because I'm not from there so I have no idea if theres any american school for the enlisted's kids(I have some doubt's about it but who knows)
I hope I could help both of you with your doubts and sorry any possible mistake I might have done...I keep trying to improve myself at english:P
anyways anything else just ask it here and when I see it I will try to answer back as quick as possible