Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 9 of 156 02 January 2013 at 10:21am | IP Logged |
No European Spanish for me, thanks! It sounds too weird, like they all have some sort of speech-impediment. It's the same with Sørlandsk. They sound like a bunch of three-year-olds that haven't learned to speak properly yet. And Vestlendinger sound like Donald Duck. The best dialect in Norwegian is Nordlandsk. I don't know yet what the best dialect for Spanish is yet, but I'm pretty sure it won't be a European one.
I hope I haven't insulted too many people on this forum. :-)
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yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin
| Message 10 of 156 02 January 2013 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
Oh my bad. I didn't know. I actually agree with you. My "favourite Spanish" is actually
the Columbian one. It sounds really good and relaxed, it's a pleasure to hear.
Unfortunately for me, I spent 5months living in Spain and got the Spanish Spanish. The
only expression not from Spain I use is "acordarse" instead of "recordar" because of a
friend who used it way too much. :)
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 11 of 156 02 January 2013 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
I've had a headache most of the day, so I've done almost nothing. I get very grumpy when I have a headache :(
I've been trying to put a bunch of those Sherlock onto my iPhone and it won't work. It keeps telling me that it can't find certain tracks. I can't figure out why. They are sitting in the same folder and have the same album name and artist name and everything as the tracks it does find, so what's up? And of course it's just random tracks it doesn't find. So I have parts 1-4 of a 5-part story and then part 4 and 6 of a 6-part story and so on. So most of the stories have at least one part missing. And on one story, it decided to make up its own mini-tracks. It has the regular track one (I think) but it also has three other "track one"'s that are about 7-15 seconds and are just little pieces out of the real track one. Yesterday, I was just listening to the stories on my computer, but it would be nice to have them on my phone so I could take them with me.
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 12 of 156 03 January 2013 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
Just doing the regular round of log visiting, and I found this
Brun Ugle wrote:
No European Spanish for me, thanks! It sounds too weird, like they all have some sort of speech-impediment. [...] I hope I haven't insulted too many people on this forum. :-) |
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Well, maybe you don't need to worry about how many people you insult, but how much you insult them...
as your Godfather, I can tell you who I'm *not* gonna call when my son gets killed in a shootout.
OK, I don't really feel insulted -- if it's because of all the /θ/ sounds, I guess that's exactly how Germans feel about English speakers, so we're even, just this once ;)
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 13 of 156 03 January 2013 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
Don't mind me. I come from the place with the ugliest sounding English in the world.
I lived here in Norway for 9 years before taking a trip to my hometown in the US. I remember sitting on the plane listening to the people around me talking, and wondering where in the world they came from because they were making such hideous sounds. I should have realized they were from the area where I grew up since that was where the plane was headed, but I found it quite shocking to get back home and realize that I'd grown up with that horrible noise all around me. It's no wonder the rest of the country makes fun of us.
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 14 of 156 03 January 2013 at 8:12pm | IP Logged |
So, you're from Newcastle then? ;)
(Disclaimer for not-so-innocent bystanders: I know Newcastle is in the UK, not the US. For some reason (or none at all!) there was some review floating around, about people there speaking a really hideous variant of English, etc. It's just a joke, you dummies!)
OK, "seriously", where is this horrid (yours, not Newcastle's) variant of English spoken? You know people laugh at each other at the drop of a hat, so that's not a real hint...
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 15 of 156 03 January 2013 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
Southern New Jersey in the US. It's so flat and nasal sounding.
It's kind of weird, but certain sounds sound right in some languages and not in others. It's like those /θ/ sounds in Spanish. I'm used to Latin American Spanish, so it just sounds wrong to me, but the sound itself is OK and I like it in languages like English where it "belongs." It's the same with some of those Norwegian dialects. Some of them have some sounds in common with Danish, but Danish is supposed to sound like that, so then it sounds nice, but in Norwegian, it doesn't.
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 16 of 156 04 January 2013 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle wrote:
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Trust me, Brun... the entire country doesn't make fun of you all. They make fun of us Southerners. :) You think Jersey English is bad? Why don't ya hop on a plane 'n' git yoself daown to da Heart of Dixie 'n' git you a bit o' dat Southern twang, dahlin! Hoo-wee! Ain't nuttin' like it.
Of course, I can't call myself a Southerner anymore. I denounced that way back when I was 10, when I started to change my accent to a more standard American one. Now, on the rare occasions I go back to Alabama, they think I'm from Detroit or Chicago or something.
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