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| H.Computatralis Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6309 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes  Speaks: Polish*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Latin | Message 9 of 48 30 September 2011 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cuban definitely! It's like they're talking with a hot potato in their mouth...and so fast too!
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| Leipzig Hexaglot Newbie Wales Joined 4808 days ago 22 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC2, Lowland Scots, SpanishC2, Portuguese, Catalan Studies: Welsh, Tok Pisin, German, Italian | Message 10 of 48 01 October 2011 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been speaking Spanish for a long time now, and despite having been taught mostly it
in school and having lived in Spain for a while, I still consider most variants of Peninsular Spanish to be amongst the most difficult to comprehend. I'm fond of the country and its people, but many dialects seem a tad abrupt to my ear. Despite being rather deaf, I can make out most oral Spanish varieties fine, but it's Spaniards whom I need to ask to repeat themselves more than any others. Even some Cubans' habit to swallow half of their inventory of consonants doesn't faze me as much! ;) I speak Rioplatense Spanish, so that's probably the easiest for me to listen to. Getting used to more informal speakers from that area means that I don't find the s- debuccalisation of other dialects much of a bother. Other than that, I find most varieties of Mexican Spanish really clear for some reason or another. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4870 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 48 08 October 2011 at 11:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm just a beginner, and while I understand spoken Spanish fairly well, I have virtually no speaking fluency as yet. My exposure to spoken Spanish is through movies, telenovelas and TV shows from various countries.
My ranking is roughly like this: Very Easy: Mexican and Colombian Moderately easy: Argentinian, Puerto Rican, Andalusian Slightly difficult: Central Peninsular Virtually Impossible: Cuban 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 48 09 October 2011 at 8:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Hm. I have yet to encounter any Spanish variant that I have particular difficulties with, and I like them all. I am a bit puzzled that Cuban is picked out as difficult - I have only been to Havana and Varadero, but in both these places the languages was very easy to understand.
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| crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5823 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French | Message 13 of 48 13 October 2011 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've found Spain Spanish to be the most difficult. For the longest time, I thought I
was just really bad at understanding Spanish but then I started to explore Latin American accents and some of them are so clear it's unbelievable. Venezuelan, Mexican, Argentinian, Peruvian and Costa Rican are the first to mind. I think I found Cuban and Chilean a bit tricky but not as difficult as many Spain Spanish accents had been for me. I often feel that learning Spanish in Spain is akin to learning English in England/Britain. The diversity of accents in England is quite severe when compared to the diversity of U.S accents (Liverpoolian, Glasweigian, Scottish, Irish, Geordie etc) so I feel there's something of a parallel there (that and the less frequent usage of the Present Perfect in the Americas in both Spanish and in English). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6277 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 14 of 48 13 October 2011 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find the Spanish of Spain easier to understand than Latin American varieties. It may be simply that my school Spanish concentrated on Iberian Spanish rather than the other types.
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| ilcommunication Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6697 days ago 115 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 15 of 48 15 October 2011 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Dominican Spanish is probably the most difficult for me to understand...you can forget about any "s" in a word, because there's a good chance it won't be pronounced. Cuban is also pretty tough. Don't get me wrong, both are awesome accents, just tricky to comprehend.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5458 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 16 of 48 16 October 2011 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||
Maybe because you're used to Andalusian Spanish spoken at machine gun pace? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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