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| TrentBooks Triglot Groupie United States TrentBooks.com Joined 4854 days ago 43 posts - 98 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Guarani Studies: Biblical Hebrew, Japanese | Message 9 of 12 12 August 2011 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would like to echo what Suzumiya posted. I learned Spanish in Paraguay, but live and work in Washington State, USA. I regularly converse with Mexicans, and I have spoken to people from Spain. I've come to two conclusions over the years: 1) The differences are noticeable. 2) The differences do not hinder the conversation. Knowing the differences exist is about all you need to know, in my opinion. As mentioned before, it's a good idea just to get Spanish under your belt, then you can modify how you speak it as you find a culture you would like to become a part of.
Also, as Iguanamon mentioned, the media are fantastic resources. Edited by TrentBooks on 15 August 2011 at 10:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5335 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 10 of 12 12 August 2011 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm from Argentina and I can tell you right now: no one should laugh about your accent, If they do, it is due to their silliness.
Choose whatever accent you like the most, after that, you can acquire the others with no problem. Check this out, this guy (I don't think he's from Buenos Aires) talks a bit about accents, Spanish/english video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLvgduQhDmY Here, an extract from a movie. "Acento porteño" = portenian accent (from Buenos Aires) is used, it has various words that probably not many Spanish speakers from others countries would understand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhCqbYcVV8 In this video, an argentinian girls imitates the accent from Spain. Later, a Spanish guy, imitates the portenian accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSRQyT0kr4g&feature=related Do you guys know Lionel Messi? As today he is considered to be the best soccer player in the world. He plays for Barcelona (Spain), he went there when he was very young but never lost his argentinian accent. Nobody seems to care. Edited by Luk on 12 August 2011 at 11:39pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5375 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 11 of 12 14 August 2011 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Unless someone really cares about passing for a native I don't think it really matters too much. My philosophy is to try to simply minimize my English/American accent and I don't really care what type of Spanish I sound like... as long as it sounds like Spanish and not Spanglish. I do both Assimil and Latin American material and hope to simply end up as a generic sounding mixed accent.
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| amethyst32 Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5649 days ago 118 posts - 198 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 12 of 12 14 August 2011 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Well that's Lionel Messi, one of the most loved footballers on the planet - but I'm not convinced that Joe or Jane Doe would get the same reaction. I say this because I've personally experienced some quite abrupt reactions from Spanish people to my Latin American pronunciation and usage - even my tutor marked me down for it last year when I took a class - and I've also noticed people from Spain AND other Latin American countries having a particular issue over Argentinian pronunciation. Edited by amethyst32 on 14 August 2011 at 2:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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