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| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4766 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes  Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 5 13 January 2012 at 8:52pm | IP Logged |
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In Samoan there are two ways of pronouncing the language, one of which is considered "correct" and "formal" the other "uneducated" and "informal". Most Samoans hated the sound of foreigners using the "informal" pronunciation pattern, at least until they were very fluent in the language.
Is there anything like that in Spanish? Does a foreigner using badly accented Castillian pronunciation sound worse than a foreigner using badly accented Latin American pronunciation? Are people in Iberia more tolerant of badly accented Castillian pronunciation than people in, say, Mexico? Do Latin Americans like the way that Castillian Spanish sounds, the way many Americans like the sound British "BBC" English? steve 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4750 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 2 of 5 14 January 2012 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
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Spanish-speaking Latin Americans find Peninsular Spanish funny because of the lisp.
They are not crazy about the way it sounds, but only a minority of them finds the peninsular variant ugly. In Spain...Argentinian Spanish is considered pleasant, Colombian Spanish well-enunciated, Mexican Spanish tiring/pesky. You should choose the accent you like and stick with it, and don't mix accents [for example sheísmo argentino and the ceceo of Málaga]. Central Colombian accent is the easiest for foreigners to imitate and to master. Mexican Spanish has particular intonation patterns which make it sound distinctively Mexican. Colombian vocabulary is closer to peninsular Spanish too (for example: *coger* means -to get- in Spain and in Colombia but -to screw , to get laid- in Mexico). Edited by Camundonguinho on 14 January 2012 at 1:42am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6676 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 3 of 5 14 January 2012 at 12:53pm | IP Logged |
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I used to prefer Castillian accent because other Spanish accents sounded weird to me. Now, with this new global and Internet era, I am used to other accents and I do not have any problems.
What's the best advice? I am not sure. I like to listen all kinds of English accents because content is much more important to me. The downside seems to be a weird accent when you speak. I would like to know your opinions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6660 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 4 of 5 14 January 2012 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
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Sticking with one accent consistently is probably the best way to go.
In the United States, we tend to hear more Latin American Spanish,and it seems that most of the audio input we get is in some variety of Latin American Spanish rather than Castilian. If you're learning Spanish to speak with Mexicans or Mexican-Americans, for example, it seems only natural that you'd want your accent and pronunciation to conform to theirs. If your situation is not as obvious as that, the most important thing is to be consistent. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 5 14 January 2012 at 9:50pm | IP Logged |
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As others have said, choose one accent and stick to it. However, whichever accent you choose, be sure to expose
yourself to other dialects as well. I believe most learning materials made for the European markets use Peninsular Spanish (more precisely from northern Spain), while materials made for the US market use Latin American Spanish (mostly Mexican I suspect, but maybe also Colombian and Peruvian). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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