Apparently, we put the accent in verbs in the wrong place many times. For example, although most spanish speakers would say I speak spanish in an American accent (and I speak english with slight spanish accent, darn it), the way I speak the spanish might actually be a Nicaraguan accent, if not maybe more specific than the whole country. Their constant "tu"s stab at me, like, who do I think I am, gosh? and even though they're in America, they're talking to people they maybe just met, they use all of these slang words that i'll miss, and cause to miss other words cause they lost me.Īccent may be an issue too. Puerto Ricans has similar things, but are also very informal. both have tons of Americanisms and made up slang words I'll miss them and cringe, such as when one woman told me a vase was all "esctrachado," and there's more common ones like "trucko" or "parkiado." OH MY GOSH MY EARS HURT. With my 1st/native languages being both English and spanish, I sitll have trouble understand some people Spanish, but usually it's more beacuse of either accent, or most commonly, slang usage. People you know? TV? Univision (shudders!)? etc? and what nationalities? Thank you for your kind correspondence, my esteemed colleagues.Ī bit more info on your circumstances could help, such as your 1st/native language(s) and what is ths spoken Spanish you speak of. So what's up with that? Could it be because my native language English is more closely related to German so I am better equipped to understand it? I doubt that, for I also learnt some Italian at one time and although I didn't reach an advanced level, I recall no problems of this kind. ![]() German on the other hand is much much easier and I have no non-standard issues. I consider myself quite competent in Spanish, yet I very frequently miss words, need to ask for repetition and need quite a long time to adapt to a new accent to the point of understanding even fairly basic utterances. Hi, is it just me or is spoken Spanish actually incredibly difficult to understand relative to the written language and relative to the spoken forms of other languages.Īs a comparison, I learnt German also and I can understand it more easily than Spanish even though I have been learning it about half as long and find it more difficult in an overall sense than Spanish (over 5 years).
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