u/JF_Rodrigues

Okay, bear with me. This is something that I've noticed recently. I'll be teaching a student the numbers from 0 to 10 and when I read 5 they'll ask me "oh, so you don't pronounce the -co?", and I'll be like "what? you definitely do pronounce it". Then another day my partner asked me the time for something and I answered "cinco" but apparently it sounded like "sim".

To sum up, it seems I don't fully pronounce the last syllable in "cinco" for some reason, although in my head I'm definitely pronouncing the whole word.

Have you ever noticed you don't fully pronounce a syllable at the end of a word? Or, if you're learning Portuguese, you're expecting to hear the full word and the speaker apparently doesn't pronounce it fully?