We're planning a trip hopefully sometime this year to France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Between my husband and I we have French, Italian and Spanish covered well enough to order food off of a menu. Portuguese we are not sure of. How to pronounce the following: Rissois Azeitonas Chamucas I think the rest we can pretty much figure out. I don't know if there is a significant difference between the Portuguese and Brazilian dialects, if there are variations in pronunciation please specify. I like to learn other languages for functional purposes (obviously) so I prefer to know which dialect I'm learning. I also try very hard, oftentimes quite successfully to get my accent "right" so if there are any websites that have audio I'd like to know which dialect is spoken and whether or not the person is a native speaker. For instance I was taught in school a "generic" dialect that my teacher called "standard" Latin American Spanish. Living in So Cal this has served me well. My husband's Spanish friends (from Spain) HATE it, if I were in Spain I would care but in Los Angeles my Mexican and Central American friends would think I was putting on "airs" (They think my accent is adorable, by the way). I'm also learning standard French French because that is what my husband and daughter speak and most of our Francophone friends speak this. I'm also at the point where I'm trying to refine my French accent so it helps me know "who" a speaker is. I don't want to repeat after someone who has the same accent that I do. And please non-native speakers or Qubecois do not be offended by my learning preference for French. I am in no way implying one is "better" or more "correct", I am simply stating that different dialects fit into the my personal cultural landscape better than other dialects. Peace Now back to food! Portuguese please. Help!