jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5977 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*
| Message 9 of 13 22 January 2009 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
Go to Madrid or Salamanca next time. Supposedly Salamanca has the purest spoken Spanish in Spain.
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!LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6821 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish
| Message 10 of 13 23 January 2009 at 7:13am | IP Logged |
Thanks for the help. What makes the Spanish of Salamanca so much "better"?
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jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5977 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*
| Message 11 of 13 23 January 2009 at 8:44am | IP Logged |
It probably has to do with it being a college town and the level of education among its inhabitants is one of the highest. La Universidad de Salamanca is there and it prides itself on its Spanish language program. Students from Spain and all over the world go there to study so the language is more standard and less influenced by dialects that are heard in other parts of Spain.
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 12 of 13 12 February 2009 at 8:35am | IP Logged |
Catalan is even spoken a little way into France, at the point just across the border from Catalonia.
I believe Salamanca is in the part of Spain called "Old Castile", where the standard form of Spanish comes from.
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^veganboy^ Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5919 days ago 51 posts - 51 votes
| Message 13 of 13 16 February 2009 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
Catalan is spoken in Perpignan (heavily french accented!) and Sardinia (heavily Italian accented!).
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