Author: Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz
Date: 12:05:44 12/15/05
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On December 15, 2005 at 14:24:13, gerold daniels wrote: >On December 15, 2005 at 11:15:39, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote: > >>On December 15, 2005 at 09:19:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>In Spain they barely talk an understable language. Too much accent. I scarcely >>>can understand what they say. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Unbearable. >>>Best spoken spanish I think you can find in Colombia. >>>Worst spoken spanish, after Spain, is talked in my country, Chile. >>>Writen is the same everywhere. >>> >>>Fernando >> >>You don't even know what you're talking about (about the Z sound) :) >>My familiy and friends from Colombia seem to like the "Spain" Spanish accent. >>By the way, what's next? English have too much accent and are scarcely >>understandable in English? Germans have a bad German too? >>Best regards, >> >> Jaime > >Hello Jaime. I am from the midwest. When i talk to someone from N.Y. on the >telephone they have to repeat what they say before i can understand them. >When i worked in Canada the English people there i could hardly understand. :) > >Gerold. Of course, there are accents, and you have to make an effort to get used to them, and in some situations make an effort to speak clearer to make yourself understood. I can´t speak Italian or Portuguese at all, but I can talk to them easily if they´re willing to try... and speak for hours with just a few problems every few minutes about words completely different. I speak in spanish to my portuguese friends here in England, and they talk to me in Portuguese, rather than using English, because we don´t have problems in this sense. Understanding Brazilian or Italian people and not understanding south-American people would be unconciveable for me! The same should apply for south American people, and so far, Fernando is the first one that I´ve heard of who can´t understand me (or my people). Truth is some people don´t want to make the effort, so they just block themselves and they don´t understand. I´ve seen people in my city (eg. taxi drivers or shop assistants) who seem not to be able to understand foreigners who try to speak Spanish, and sometimes people from other regions. I think they can´t be bother because "they sound different". Scottish people in Edinburgh had great problems understanding me (and English and Americans), but Americans and English people understand me perfectly. By the way, this is not computer chess, and we´re going to get a nice moderation right away. Regards, Jaime
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