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| Carlucio Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 70 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 22 02 December 2011 at 5:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Take the slowest, i have a cuban maestro and he speaks like a submachine gun. Edited by Carlucio on 02 December 2011 at 5:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4758 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 10 of 22 02 December 2011 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||
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The clearest accent in general would be a standard Colombian (not too heavy in the accent), or central Mexican.
There is really no ''chic'' accent in particular, that is something that varies within each country. As a very general stereotype, highland accents are slower and more conservative, lowland accents faster in speech and more innovative. Accents like Cuban, Chilean and Venezuelan are considered very regionalized because they are heavy (the same could be said of Argentine, but there are more regional variations here). Finally, I've been repeatedly told that the Argentine accent (rioplatense variety), has a ''sexyness'' factor, but again it's a general stereotype. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5262 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 11 of 22 02 December 2011 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
Peruvian is also very clear, and the Spanish of northern Spain (especially Salamanca, Palencia, Valladolid, Burgos). I agree with Cainntear: Any "educated" accent is likely to be as comprehensible as any other. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Políglota Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 4507 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Italian, Russian Studies: Turkish, Georgian, Persian | Message 12 of 22 15 January 2012 at 5:08am | IP Logged | ||
I once read an interview with Gabriel García Márquez in which he said the "best" spoken Latin American Spanish is to be found in Bogotá, Colombia and in Guanajuato, México. Be aware that San Miguel de Allende, although in Guanajuato, is an expat community. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| s0fist Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4855 days ago 260 posts - 445 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Sign Language, German, Spanish, French | Message 13 of 22 15 January 2012 at 6:57am | IP Logged | ||
Is there a particular language course that teaches or uses exclusively either of these two? If not, can you point to some movies or bands, or maybe a particular radio or TV channel that's available on the net, that use one of those two consistently and/or exclusively and that could be used to pick it up? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5184 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 14 of 22 17 January 2012 at 1:59am | IP Logged | ||
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S0fist, if you want to pick up the accent with material that is exclusively in that accent, you could find an interesting audio book read by a voice actor from the country you are interested in... then listen/shadow the audio book. Usually it is not too hard to learn where a voice actor is from by googling their name.
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| Mad Max Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 4860 days ago 79 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Russian Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 15 of 22 17 January 2012 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||
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OK, you can study the Standard Colombian accent, and it is true that it is amazing the
way they speak. IMHO, they speak better than the majority of Spaniards. On the other hand, almost all materials are in Standard Mexican Spanish (spoken in Mexico and studied in the USA) and Standard European Spanish (spoken in Spain and studied in European Union). When I say "standard", I say the language of the media in these countries. So, I would study the Mexican or the European one because they are more spoken, more studied and there are more materials whith them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Superking Diglot Groupie United States polyglutwastaken.blo Joined 6452 days ago 87 posts - 194 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 22 17 January 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree with those who have said to learn the language first, then pick up the accent later. Yes, language texts may tend to steer you the wrong way on occasion regarding vocabulary, but that's easy to replace when you settle in to a certain dialect. The grammar itself is *relatively* universal, aside from some pronoun and verb-form differences.
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