paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6338 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English
| Message 1 of 11 10 August 2009 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
How understandable is this dialect? Is it more like European or American(Carribean?) variatons?
I'd consider that it should be very distinct if taking into account that there are practically no people of Spanish descent.
Edited by paparaciii on 10 August 2009 at 2:02pm
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guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6194 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English
| Message 3 of 11 11 August 2009 at 1:42am | IP Logged |
paparaciii wrote:
How understandable is this dialect? Is it more like European or American(Carribean?)
variatons?
I'd consider that it should be very distinct if taking into account that there are practically no people of Spanish
descent.
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Completely understandable for any native, I can't compare it to any other "flavour" of Spanish I just can say it
has a very distinctive African sound.
Here are some samples, these are not spontaneous speeches but you can see they speak plain Spanish over
there:
Findjapi
El libro 1/2
El libro 2/2
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paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6338 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English
| Message 4 of 11 11 August 2009 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
Ok but as I understand Spanish is not their native language and not the everyday communication tool..
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tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6122 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French
| Message 5 of 11 12 August 2009 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
paparaciii wrote:
Ok but as I understand Spanish is not their native language and not the everyday communication tool.. |
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For the vast majority of them, it is.
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paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6338 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English
| Message 6 of 11 12 August 2009 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
tritone wrote:
paparaciii wrote:
Ok but as I understand Spanish is not their native language and not the everyday communication tool.. |
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For the vast majority of them, it is. |
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And your opinion is based on what?
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poligloton Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5709 days ago 104 posts - 128 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Portuguese, Italian Studies: French, Romanian, Catalan
| Message 8 of 11 13 August 2009 at 3:13am | IP Logged |
In Spain I had some friends from Equatorial Guinea. When they first arrived in Spain they spoke perfect Spanish. If it weren't for their appearance one would have thought they were Spaniards. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, considering that Equatorial Guinea only gained its independence from Spain in 1968. It's nice that there actually is another Spanish speaking country that uses vosotros and distinciĆ³n.
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