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Richard Jernigan -> RE: Pimientito on Spanish TV (Dec. 31 2011 18:15:37)
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ORIGINAL: rombsix
If you listen to Mark speaking in Spanish as per the above video, you would directly realize that he is English or American. However, if I were to learn Spanish properly and speak it, I would sound much more like a native than Mark. No disrespect to Mark or English/American folk, and no pompousness intended or conveyed (hopefully). As an example, I spent one month in Spain few years ago, and had prepared with some basic Spanish a couple of weeks before going there, and received several comments by Spaniards that "Wow - you sound like you're actually Spanish!" Again - no flaunting intended, but I stand by my original viewpoint.
Cheers!
That's weird. My native language is definitely American English, but when I'm in Spain people say I sound like a Mexican![:D]
...which is about like being told by a "properly speaking" Englishman that you sound Australian...
People in Costa Rica, Argentina, Peru, etc. similarly identify my accent as Mexican. I learned Spanish as a child in the home of educated Mexican Americans in South Texas, where 90% of people speak Spanish at home. The people whose house I spent time in were descendants of Spanish colonists of Nuevo Santander, on both sides of what is now the border between Texas and Mexico.
People in Mexico say, "You speak quite clearly," but seldom, if ever, say I sound like a Mexican.
The Israeli proprietor of a dive shop in Palau, who had spent time in some Spanish speaking country and spoke Spanish with an accent unique in my experience, said I spoke like a gringo!
[No offense intended to Spaniards, Mexicans, Costa Ricans, Argentinians, Peruvians, Israelis, English people, Australians, Americans nor natives of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya]
RNJ
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