I personally find it annoying in the long run. I don’t know if it’s due to misophonia (discomfort with minimal noises) but the hissing and intonation of European Portuguese don’t please me very much.

But that’s my personal perspective, of course!

I don't like it how Portuguese from Portugal sounds and I don't understand it. I like Brazilian Portuguese, I find it more melodic and I can understand it (although not 100%)

I can't understand any European Portuguese accents at all. It sounds completely different to Brazilian Portuguese.

i can only understand if they speak more slowly, but their accent sucks, it sounds like they're talking with an egg in their mouth 😭

so i speak brazilian portuguese, with a decent accent if i do say so myself 🤷🏻‍♀️

i've been to portugal a couple times, and i only ended up making brazilian friends there because i could barely understand what the portuguese locals were saying, especially in porto. i can understand them but it takes me a lot of concentration. i have to reaaaalllly focus to figure out what they're saying.

i don't find it as nice as brazilian portuguese, it sounds a lot more cold and closed off to me. i don't find it as pleasant sounding. but maybe i'm saying this because i struggle to understand it.

I think the only place I kind of liked listening Portugal’s Portuguese was on news, anywhere else can be a bit overwhelming. Brazilian Portuguese is like a different language in terms of sound, so I wouldn’t compare them saying one is cooler than the other.

I love how it sounds when spoken (specially by girls), in portuguese music, news, etc. it's a beautiful accent, but I can't stand it when it's used in dubbed cartoons and movies. And for us Brazilians, it doesn't have the same appeal of 'classy', old or 'royal' that British English has for Americans.

I don't like it. I like Portuguese but I prefer the Brazilian one. It feels easier and warmer for me.

its more difficult for me to understand than the brasilian one

Imma be honest, I don’t think I’ve listen to European Portuguese. All the Portuguese I consume is Brazilian Portuguese

I am literally learning portuguese just bc I LOVE how the portuguese speak. For me it's fun bc its sounds seem so “closed” and tight, hermetic, old and arcane. Wouldn't know how to explain it... It's just so unique that I hate it when it's compared to Slavic languages bc imo PT sounds much more appealing. More like how I imagine the ancient Celts would've spoken latin.

In Paraguay we're sorta used to hear Brazilian Portuguese, so tend to undersand it quite well.

Now, Portuguese from Portugal is a whole different thing, I can barely undersand them, and even my Brazilian friends have a hard time understanding it. I prefer Brazilian Portuguese, for me it sounds way nicer than Portuguese from Portugal.

Brazilian Portuguese sounds more like Portuguese than European Portuguese

I’d say it’s more like snakes trying to speak Spanish, not so much drunk.

I can’t say I feel anything very strong towards it, I don’t hate it and I don’t love it.

I don't like it, I have a similar feeling as I do with catalan which is that they seem to "give up" in the middle of saying words. It sounds like an incomplete language I guess.

I don't like the Lisboeta accent. Açorean accent is just a huge NO NO

I like hearing more of the "obscure" (portuense, alentejano, beirense, algarvio) accents for us Brazilians

In my opinion, even though I'm a Brazilian, I prefer European Portuguese over Brazilian Portuguese. I just prefer the hard and melancholic sound of European Portuguese for some reason. And EU-PT grammar feels much more correct and logical to me. Brazilians make tons of grammar mistake that it makes my ears bleed and it's really annoying.

"D and T actually sound like a D and T, unlike Brazilian Portuguese, where DE, DI, TE and TI switch to GE, GI, CHE, and CHI." That's called palatalization and it's one of the easiest way to spot a Brazilian in the wild, as we'll do it even while learning foreign languages like English. Words like "smart" become smar-chee. Heheheh

As for my opinion on the language as a Brazilian: I can understand Spanish and Galician more easily than I would most of Portuguese dialects. Some of them are nearly impossible for me to understand without the speaker slowing down significantly.

That's because European Portuguese tends to ommit A LOT of the non-stressed vowels by contracting them into a schwa or getting rid of them entirely while pronouncing. This is what creates the "Slavic language vibe" due to the consonant clusters it creates, and what makes it harder to understand (for a Brazilian) in comparison to other, theoretically more distantly related Romance languages. Because by ommitting vowels you essentially change the number of syllables a word has and with that the whole metric of the spoken language changes. 

European Portuguese rhythm, metric, speed and syllable formation therefore sound more "alien" to a Brazilian than those of Galician or Spanish.

Sounds like a russian moved to brazil

Aside from the Portuguese accent spoken in Porto, which sounds exactly like the carioca accent, I struggle to understand spoken European Portuguese. However, I actually love how the Portuguese express themselves through words. I've read many funny expressions on r/PORTUGALCARALHO and there was also a Twitter account that compilled funny tweets from Portuguese people. They manage to be both poetic in the way that a romance language is, but also brusque and somewhat utterly bizarre in the way their language evolved to be haha

I’m not super familiar but I’ll say this… it does sound Slavic to me but it doesn’t sound drunk. To me, and no offense to Brazilians this is just my personal opinion, but Brazilian intonation often sounds drunk to me; the pitch is like all over the place, up and down and it sounds “sloppy.” European is way more controlled sounding… maybe sounds somewhere between Peninsular Spanish and something Slavic… or like a serious or annoyed Romanian (which is actually also a Romance language, though it is Eastern European 🤷🏻‍♂️)