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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 33 of 48 08 July 2013 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
The background music the first two and a half minutes doesn't make it easier. 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 34 of 48 09 July 2013 at 12:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a news link that should be clearer:
http://youtu.be/iDvAL3oWlJ0 However, the accent with the dropping of the consonants, vowels, and syllables still remains, which is what makes it difficult for me to understand instantaneously compared to the Iberian accent. 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 35 of 48 09 July 2013 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Also if there is something difficult about a Peninsular accent, is the flowing of the
words. Sometimes it seems as if the accent is "watery", as in the speech sometimes sounds as if the enunciation is achieved with full extension of the lips and palate to form vowels, and sometimes the <s> sounds less forceful than in other accents. Here is a speech from the King: http://youtu.be/0D33IyBpTbE?t=48s The <s> sounds relaxed and the enunciation is very full and pronounced. I cannot remember if soemone mentioned the similarity between Peninsular accents and the RP in English, but to me, both share a similarity of very high amount of enunciation of syllables and vowels, and consonants. Edited by 1e4e6 on 09 July 2013 at 4:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4890 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 36 of 48 10 July 2013 at 3:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm just back from Cusco, and had a surprisingly hard time with the Spanish there. I
sometimes wondered if people weren't speaking a Spanish / Quechua mix. One big challenge was that no one spoke simpler, slower Spanish for me, which was surprising in such a touristed place. It was either natural speed Spanish, or they'd switch to English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5208 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 37 of 48 10 July 2013 at 11:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I've not studied Spanish, but I hear it almost every day and I speak a couple of similar languages so I dare say I have a reasonable passive knowledge. I find Spanish accents the easiest by far, particularly centre and north, and I really struggle with Mexican. I didn't find Argentinian too difficult when I heard it, and I've heard a few other South American accents of varying difficulty but I wasn't sure from where exactly. Almost all of the Spanish I hear is Peninsular, so I'd agree that it's just a question of what you're used to!
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 38 of 48 10 July 2013 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find the difference in speech clarity between individuals more disturbing than the difference between different dialects. Old men without teeth are more difficult to understand than the average TV presenter from the news (although the guy from 1e4e6's link sounds like he has had a frontal kollision with something hard), and most women are easier to hear than most men.
I have visited countries on both sides of the Atlantic, and I have not had more problems understanding for instance Cuban last January or Venezuelan and Colombian a couple of years ago than I had with Spanish from different areas in Spain. And it is not because my Spanish is so superb that anything goes... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| anime Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6361 days ago 161 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Spanish, Swedish*, English Studies: German, Portuguese, French, Russian | Message 39 of 48 11 July 2013 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
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That CNN Chile Newscast wasn't half bad in my opinion. Colloquial Chilean can be a lot worse than that in
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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4750 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 40 of 48 11 July 2013 at 12:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Chileans are notorious for having a muffled accent.
Peruvian, Bolivian and Argentine Spanish is much easier to understand. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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