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| Nature Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5029 days ago 63 posts - 80 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 1 of 7 28 March 2011 at 7:10am | IP Logged | ||
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How do Spanish speakers perceive foreigner accents of Spanish?
For example when Americans speak Spanish IN GENERAL you can tell they're American. But say for example, a Portuguese or an Italian were to speak Spanish. Would the Spanish speaker be able to tell they're Portuguese or Italian? Edited by Nature on 28 March 2011 at 7:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4922 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 7 28 March 2011 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | ||
I can certainly identify a Portuguese or Italian person speaking Spanish by their accent, and I'm not a native Spanish speaker. A long time Spanish speaker, yes, but not native. You become accustomed to patterns in any language, just like in your own language and learn to distinguish different accents. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5245 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 7 28 March 2011 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm not a native speaker of Spanish, but in general it is not too hard to notice an Italian or Portuguese accent. If they have reached a near native level, it is of course harder. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hierbabuena Newbie Spain Joined 4820 days ago 19 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish* Studies: EnglishB2, Mandarin | Message 4 of 7 28 March 2011 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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If we're used to listen the accent, like the Italian or the Portuguese ones, yes, we can
say where they are from. But with the most of them we only can say if they are from somewhere in East Europe, Middle East, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5943 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 5 of 7 29 March 2011 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Unless they're strong Spanish speakers, it's easier to identify an Italian, Portuguese or French person speaking Spanish than say somebody from Hungary or Latvia. This is because speakers of Romance language tend to default to their own pronunciation for the many cognates their languages share with Spanish.
However, there were some native Russians speaking Spanish that I once mistook for Portuguese speakers of the language. A Spanish person would probably have identified them correctly. Edited by DaraghM on 29 March 2011 at 4:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 4873 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 6 of 7 29 March 2011 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think Portuguese from Portugal is easier to identify than Brazilian Portuguese in Spanish language. I might be wrong, but as a guy said here, he once mistook the accent. Portuguese from Portugal sounds like Russian to my ear, but I still understand them, sometimes making a little effort to do. For me, it sounds like a Russian speaking Portuguese. Living in Brazil, I'm sometimes surrounded by Spanish speakers, but the only difference I can tell is, whether they're native speakers or not (non-native usually speak slowly, while native speakers speak very fast, faster than I do in my own language). Edited by Matheus on 29 March 2011 at 7:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elarsen21 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4777 days ago 7 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 7 of 7 05 April 2011 at 1:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I took a "Spanish for Foreigners" course at a Latin American university with students of many different nationalities. After having spent nearly a year with native Spanish speakers, I could definitely discern different accents (including those of the Brazilians in the class).
Remember that accents vary within a country as well. Different regions often have distinct accents that are instantly identifiable. The question is which accent the speaker has adapted to. An immigrant to a given country may end up speaking with a flawless regional accent from that country. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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