>>7400026Depends, Brazillians do not speak slower, it's us who speak very fast, at an eminem pace sometimes. This is a generalized problem that might explain the confusion.
We can't really say portuguese from Portugal vs portuguese from Brazil when comparing accents, because both countries have very different accents across their own regions.
I'll develop more assuming you're saying São Paulo accent vs Lisbon accent (not a great example, because there's many lisbon accents, but think standardized EU Portuguese)
The standardized version of Portuguese (EU) is still too hard to grasp in terms of vowels, we have one of the most complex vowel system in the whole Romance group, whereas BR Portuguese (this differs from the region, I'm thinking SP) uses the open vowels more often, like spanish, and it becomes a simple system, you'll never fail in pronouncing a word, there's not really much into it.
EU Portuguese abuses vowel reduction at an extreme, and it sounds kind of dark and depressing, somewhat formal when spoken clearly. It has to do with vowel reduction and such...
Also the consonants, mainly S, Z, X, are a shitfest in Portugal, don't even bother understanding, that's why it sounds russian sometimes.
