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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 25 of 63 08 May 2013 at 8:58am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
The dialect of your speaking partner. I've heard Columbians, Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Spanish speakers all claim that throne. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Mad Max Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 5052 days ago 79 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Russian Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 26 of 63 08 May 2013 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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IMHO, the most prestigious Spanish dialect is Colombian.
I think that in the future will be a US dialect from Univision. It will be obviously the most prestigious because probably will be neutral. For example, there is a Latin American word for car "carro" and an European one "coche". There is also a neutral word "auto". On the other hand, the most spoken dialects are the Mexican and the European one. The European (standard, from Castille) is studied in the European Union and worldwide. In European Union, Spanish is spoken by 75 million people as first, second or foreign language (15% of the population, Eurobarometer 2010). African Spanish is also similar to the European (Morocco, Sahara and Equatorial Guinea). Finally, Mexican Spanish is spoken in Mexico and the USA. It is the most spoken one. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 27 of 63 08 May 2013 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I'm not quite sure why you keep repeating it, though, as I never said you did claim such a thing.
The vast majority of people that the OP will interact with will be native speakers by far, so I disagree.
You keep making these plausible sounding analogies to situations that aren't actually analogous. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 28 of 63 08 May 2013 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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If you're going to learn Spanish for the most prestigious dialect then maybe you've got
your priorities a little mixed up. Everyone knows the elite only either speaks accentless English, or, of course, the elite obscure dialect of a newly discovered language called Pambalulu which is only spoken in a tiny speck of the Australian Outback, which only uses dental, labial and alveolar consonants and only has the cardinal vowels. The most prestigious Spanish dialect is that of an obscure village in the Andalusian mountains where three sheep farmers live. Farming sheep is the new prestige business. Edited by tarvos on 08 May 2013 at 2:32pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 29 of 63 08 May 2013 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I've made it abundantly clear that this is not the case... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 30 of 63 08 May 2013 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I'm sure the satirical tone of my post threw you off a little bit, but that was a general
"you". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 31 of 63 08 May 2013 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Let me just say that to a native speaker's ears definitely not all accents sound the same. This is such an obvious fact and applies to all speech communities everywhere, however the excesses of political correctness impose stating it nonetheless.
In this case, Spanish as spoken in the Colombian coastal regions, Venezuela, and parts of the Caribbean does generate a particular impression upon an educated speaker which though colorful, may not always be favorable. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 32 of 63 08 May 2013 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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In order to experience first-hand the contrast between different strands of Spanish you can listen here to an interview between an illustrious Argentinian economist and a Colombian intellectual and statesman.
Notice how though accent and style are divergent, mutual comprehensibility is complete. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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