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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6529 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 25 of 48 10 November 2011 at 12:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Life taught me that Paraguayan Spanish is the hardest of all the varieties. I myself am native speaker of another Spanish variety, yet the
last time I was on a bus, there were two paraguayan guys talking to each other... in the 15 minutes their conversation lasted (I was curious and wanted to hear the accent), I only managed to understand 3 words. Literally. THREE! Anyhow, I'm not used to that specific accent. The Bolivian Spanish can also get hard to understand... they simply don't open the mouth to pronounce the words. Colombian is the easiest. Edited by Guido on 10 November 2011 at 7:18pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5586 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 26 of 48 05 July 2013 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Don't you think that maybe they were speaking Guarani or Jopara?
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| anime Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6361 days ago 161 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Spanish, Swedish*, English Studies: German, Portuguese, French, Russian | Message 27 of 48 06 July 2013 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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From my albeit limited experience Chilean might be the hardest one. They swallow a lot of -s and other stuff,
like isla de pascua becomes something like ihla de pahcua, los chilenos = lochileno, contado -> contao etc, aswell as use some fairly strange verb forms like tu tení instead of tu tienes. Edited by anime on 06 July 2013 at 12:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gala Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4551 days ago 229 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 28 of 48 06 July 2013 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Solfrid, I remember from other threads that you've spent more time in Andalusia than in any other Spanish-speaking region, and that you in fact speak that variety of Spanish. What tractor is getting at is that Cuban & Andalusian Spanish share many characteristics- dropping s's and d's, for example. Cuba was colonized by Andalusians, which is true for much of Latin America, but the colonizers were even more predominantly Andalusian in Cuba. Also, unlike most other LA nations, virtually the entire native population of Cuba was wiped out during the conquest and its aftermath. I've had relatively little exposure to Peninsular Spanish, but of its varieties the easiest is Andalusian, even though I've had even less exposure to it than to Castilian. I've only heard the Andalusian in music. When I first started listening to music from the region I was astounded by how Cuban the accent seemed. Cuban is for me the most difficult of the Latin American varieties, but is still far easier than Castilian, because I've had a fair amount of exposure to Miami Spanish via U.S. Spanish-language TV. Mexican Spanish is for me the most comprehensible. I don't really think this is entirely due to exposure, though. I think that most Mexican dialects truly are characterized by a clearer enunciation, and they are definitely spoken at a slower pace than most other varieties. I'm always surprised by how many people say that the Colombian is so neutral and comprehensible. I've heard one dialect that is, but there is another (I don't know from what region) that's very common in which all the consonants seem to be softened and slurred (though not dropped) and every utterance has a breathy quality. It's pretty, but not at all clear. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 29 of 48 07 July 2013 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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... when I hear some Southern Italian dialects I tend to think 'Uh, oh, that dialect of
Spanish sure is hard to understand!' But, well. I think I've had trouble understanding some Cubans, though I also remember being surprised at how easily I understood others. I've had not too much exposure to Mexican Spanish, but the main problem for me are regionalisms, not the accent. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| nonneb Pentaglot Groupie SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4752 days ago 80 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Hungarian, French | Message 30 of 48 07 July 2013 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm not sure that I find any accents particularly more difficult to get used to than most, but I find Yucatecan Spanish miles easier than most other varieties. Could be because 1) It's where I learned the bulk of my Spanish and 2) I was living in an area there with a large percentage of native Mayan speakers. But when I go back to listening to people from there now, I still find it remarkably clear and perhaps slower than some other varieties.
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For me, the easiest
a) Argentinian accents, Uruguayan, central Colombian the most difficult b) Andalusian accents, Chilean 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4291 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 32 of 48 08 July 2013 at 1:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have watched Chilean news for years now, along with RTVE for news simultaneously
almost everyday, and my feeling is that Chilean is one of the most difficult accents, especially when spoken quickly. The dropping of syllables, vowels, adn consonants makes it more difficult for me to understand. RTVE Peninsular journalistic accent is the easiest for me. Compare the Peninsular news: http://youtu.be/35T6A2diMs0 Chilean news: http://youtu.be/sccQejjbB0k In Chilean accents, to me, <<Yo creo que el más fácil es...>> sounds like, /yo' re'ke el ma' fa'il e.../. The dropping of the consonants is probably the most difficult problem for me to understand in conversation. In the UK it seems as the highest percentage of Spanishspeakers are from Spain, probably due to it being easier for Spanish immigrants to migrate to the UK due to the EU policy than Latinamericans, but still there are Chileans, Argentines, Mexicans in the UK as well. Having spoken with quite a wide range, I still find Peninsular accents easier. Edited by 1e4e6 on 08 July 2013 at 2:03am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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