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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 10 25 February 2006 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
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As Al-Malik said, people will understand you regardless of whether you use "th" or "s". It's all the same language, the difference is in the accent.
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| Alfonso Octoglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6859 days ago 511 posts - 536 votes Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek Studies: Nahuatl, Tzeltal, German | Message 10 of 10 25 February 2006 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
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I've met many non-Spanish native speakers who pronunce the /th/ sound for "z", "ce" and "ci". It's meaningless if we meet that people abroad (like in the U.S.A. or in Canada), but if we meet a foreigner pronuncing that way inside Latin-America -where the /th/ sound is not used at all-, we find that rather bizarre. I think it's the opposite for someone who lives in the regions mentioned above in Spain, if they listen to an outsider speaking like a Latin-American (or Canarias, or some regions in Andalucía), they'll surely find that bizarre too.
So if you want to learn Spanish to speak it in Spain it's better for you to pronunce and practice it with the sound /th/ for "z","ce" and "ci". I like both ways of pronuncing Spanish. ;) Edited by Alfonso on 25 February 2006 at 5:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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