>Rich, Corinthian leather. Cordoba.
Posted on 11/07/2021 12:02:05 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Español spoken in different accents:
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I used to fly from Monterrey, MX to Miami then Puerto Rico.
The different dialects (Norteno, Cubano, PR) are vividly different. It got to the point I could imitate all 3 pretty well and used to entertain the folks at the AA lounge in Miami doing them.
I can tell you PR Spanish is the worst. It is guttural and they chop 1/3 of the words out. And they have NO INDOOR VOICE! EVERYTHING IS YELLED!!
One problem with the comparison is that they are all newsreaders who would be expected speak a well-educated form of Spanish. What you’d hear from the average man or woman on the street would be different I’d expect.
I notice that the women all tend to be pretty good looking. Must just be a coincidence.
Agreed. And sometimes the differences are subtle.
To add the Colombian dialect though, I see now (or hear now rather) why it has the reputation of being the prettiest sounding.
>>The news lady may talk that way, but in general Cubans talk as if they had a potato stuffed in their mouths.<<
Picture Marlon Brando as The Godfather speaking Spanish but chopping the end of every word that ends with a consonant.
>Rich, Corinthian leather. Cordoba.
Cuban has French and Irish influence, sounds like mouth full of rocks
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Spanish in Mexico is 100% slang. In Honduras it is totally unintelligible kind of like the Scots. In several countries in south america it is barely spoken outside of large cities.
In Northern England each county sounds different!
The Caribbean newscasters speak like standard Mexican Spanish, not like I hear from immigrants. Even the African anchorwoman speaks similar to standard Mexican Spanish. Don’t have a clue as how the man on street in Equatorial Guinea speaks Spanish.
The Argentines and Uruguayans sounds the same and different from the rest.
Castilian or Spanish spoken in Spain is the most different.
The rest of the newscasters speak very similar to standard Mexican Spanish.
Lol, I well remember those ads!
I find that Colombian and Bolivian Spanish is the clearest and most pure, at least to my ear. The worst, by far, is a Spanish accent from Gibraltar.
Forty years in Miami tells me Cuban Spanish means the speaker is VERY IMPORTANT, and is YELLED in stores, on phones outdoors, and everywhere else. The contrast to the many quiet Mexican-Spanish speakers here in Florida's Heartland couldn't be greater.
Buena' Dia'. ;)
Yes definite cadence in Colombian!
The Latin American anchorwomen seemed to be almost entirely of Spanish descent, apart from Nicaragua and maybe one or two others, rather than of indigenous ancestry.
Almost every southern European nation has asserted rumors that he was "really" from their country—Spain, Portugal, other parts of Italy instead of Genoa, etc. He has been described as being six feet tall, having reddish blond hair, freckles and blue or hazel eyes, so... it's possible, but unlikely, as there were Celts all over that region. More will be known when results of the DNA tests begun in 2021 on his exhumed bones and swabs from the many families in the Mediterranean region named Columbus, Colon, or variants, are completed:
International Team to Study Columbus DNA to Determine His Origin
DNA Tests on Christopher Columbus' bones, on his relatives and on Genoese and Catalan claimants
COULD DNA FINALLY TELL US WHERE CRISTOFORO COLOMBO WAS FROM?
Bingo.
I once worked for a European company and traveled in France, and could make myself understood; but when I had to deal with an auto mechanic or night watchman at the plant, suddenly it was a whole different thing. Same with my travels in Italy and university language lab classes vs the street vendors in Rome or living among Italian-American descendants of impoverished immigrants.
Sharp-eared Philadelphians can tell which corner you are from. "Yo, Sixt' n' Shunk, doll!"
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