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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5783 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 17 of 20 21 August 2011 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@ Hr Henry. OK, let me rephrase that. When I lived in Spain *I* was initially completely
taken aback by just how much they swear there. My (English) boss had worked in Mexico and he thought the Spanish swore a lot too. I've never really known any Mexicans, but the Colombians I met swore a lot less, as did the Venezuelan I worked with, at least around me (and I wasn't in any kind of position of power). That is not meant as any kind of criticism, I really like Spain! Obviously just cultural differences. At any rate, the topic of swearing is not that interesting, it was just meant as a light- hearted example and if it makes you happy I'll remove it. Edited by Random review on 21 August 2011 at 6:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 18 of 20 21 August 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
No need to have removed it. My point was that profanity is subjective. When I moved to Mexico I was also taken aback by what I considered the abnormal amount of profanity. Once you're living in the culture for a while, you realize that what initially is considered profane by an outsider isn't always really profanity. When I later moved to Madrid, I was probably in a better frame of reference to recognize that. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5783 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 19 of 20 21 August 2011 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
OK, I get you now. Yes, I guess you have a point. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 20 of 20 23 August 2011 at 6:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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Someone mentioned that learning it to a higher level would improve your understanding of other dialects of Spanish, and I believe that to be true. I have no problem with any Spanish or Latin-American dialect I have ever come across, but I have two points in my favour. My Spanish is pretty good, and I learned Andalusian first. Once you get used to that dialect, not to mention that speed, everything else seems easy.
My only beef with Latin Americans is that they speak in slow motion :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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