Why Do Spanish Speakers Sound Spanish? | Improve Your Accent
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- Understand why Spanish speakers sound Spanish when speaking English with the help of Sofía Vergara.
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00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Consonants (L Sounds)
01:24 - The TH Sounds
01:53 - The M Sound
02:30 - Syllable-final Consonants
03:20 - Vowels (/iː/ and /ɪ/ Vowels)
03:49 - The /ʌ/ Vowel
04:21 - The Hesitation Sound
04:53 - Conclusion
Disclaimers
1. Sofía Vergara has been chosen because she exhibits the highlighted accent features to such an extent that it is easier for the viewer to hear. If a speaker with a "less strong" accent were chosen, it would be harder for non-phonetically trained viewers to understand the points in the video.
2. Not all native Spanish speakers will have the same accent features (or these features to the same degree) as Sofía Vergara. However, I have taught many Spanish speakers who do have accents similar to Sofía Vergara's (even young people and even people who have lived in England for many years).
3. There are many accents (and dialects) in the Spanish-speaking world. When a Spanish speaker from Spain speaks English, it will sound different to someone from Argentina speaking English. There isn't just "one Spanish accent", but this video summarises some accent features that most Spanish speakers have (either when they started to learn English or even now after speaking English for many years).
4. I have not shown all potential accent features that Spanish speakers may have.
5. Some topics have been simplified for a general audience.
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For those of you who have thought of Spanish words ending in “m” like “ultimátum”, “álbum”, “currículum” notice that they are usually pronounced with [n] (or [ŋ] or nothing) at the end rather than [m] when spoken.
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Improve Your Accent Dude...but Sofía Vergara's English is the worst ever!
Maybe use an actor that speaks better English. It wouldn't be fair to judge your Spanish because you can't speak it exactly the way we do. Also, the sound she makes when she's hesitating to speak or trying to remember is the sound that as a Spanish speaker we would make. We don't have to let go of all our isms just because we're speaking a different language, it's just a sound. This whole video seem like you just wanted to pick on Syria's and then through us all in a bunch. We all have different accents in Spanish as well, so this whole video was a huge waste of time. And she's Colombian, she has a Colombian accent. Those were my however many cents
This is blatantly racist. Why do I have to speak like a white person? I can speak however the f**k I want.
Why don’t you offer your service to Dutch or Russians who always have a strong accent? Oh wait... They’re white!
It’s ultimatum, not ultimátum...and it’s not entirely true, it’s just that the “m” sound is not the same as english
Why english people sound english when they talk in spanish ?
Y do they sound english when they speak in english?
When I speak Spanish, I use my Mexican accent but speak with lighter voice. And when I speak English, I have a deep American voice. It’s the opposite with my mom. I am Mexican though I find it funny to speak Spanish with an English accent. :)
Nou lou seu tu dime :v
@@doctorstrange7681
*No lo sé dime tú 👍
@@pewpewman._.3415 you must be very fun at fiestas
Curiosamente al revés también se da el caso de angloparlantes que pasan toda su vida en Latinoamerica o España y nunca dejan de escucharse como gringos xD
exactamente haah
Jotashock Valencia deberias buscar el canal de superholly
que decir no entiende
Jose Jimenez
yo la sigo, ella es genial y es un caso aparte jeje
ademas que está en México desde niña xD
En su caso ella aprendió ambos idiomas al mismo tiempo desde pequeña, no es lo mismo que aprender primero español y después aprender inglés condicionado al español y viceversa, por eso es difícil pronunciar bien un idioma extranjero cuando ya tienes uno materno y tu cerebro ya no tiene esa plasticidad de cuando eres niño, y eso aplica para cualquier persona, hasta a los gringos arios
Chill people, he’s only trying to help us with our pronunciation. He used a strong accent as an example because there would be no point showing someone that can actually speak properly with barely an accent. And yes, Spanish accent is not the same as Latinoamerican accent but he means the language overall. Anyway, let’s relax and if you feel like you don’t need these tips then good, but some people might.
Uhmmm ya, bueno quién tiene hungry?
well, thats why we are non native speakers, we dont need "tips" to talk, just fck off and let us be while most of you dont even know 2 languages
mateator25 Why tell someone who wants to help to fuck off? You are clearly uneducated and missing the point. Most English speakers that put this much effort and research into helping with accents are usually linguists, or people that are interested in languages. So if you say fuck tips, and you wanna be that Hispanic that goes around speaking with a strong accent go ahead. But then don’t complain when people point it out? I am Mexican and speak 5 languages and I practise every one of them, and take tips even in Spanish, no shame in learning and wanting to do better.
You're so accurate. I don't think he did the video to make a joke of us (native Spanish speakers), so relax and improve if any of his comments apply to you.
I'm from Colombia, Sofia exaggerates but well, we can see more clearly what he means, just chill out :)
@@mateator25
Que no quieras aprender es tu problema. No sé qué harías en un canal llamado "improve your accent".
As an Italian living in Spain, I love to observe the different mistakes that Spanish and Italian speakers do when speaking English.
In my opinion, the most obvious and common features of the English pronunciation by peninsular Spanish speakers are:
1- As in Spanish there are no words beginning with s+consonant, when pronouncing such words in English they add an E at the beginning. For example: speed --> espeed. Made in Spain --> made in Espain. I'm Spanish --> I'm Espanish. This is the funniest one for me.
2- As the /h/ sound doesn't exist in Spanish, they use a /χ/ or /x/ sound instead.
3- As the /æ/ sound doesn't exist in Spanish, they use an /a/ sound. We Italian speakers usually turn it into an /ɛ/.
Exemplifying points 2 and 3, "happy" is usually pronounced /'χapi/ by Spaniards, and /'ɛp:i/ by Italians. Harrison Ford becomes respectively /'χarison/ and /'ɛr:izon/ (poor Harrison).
4- Many Spaniards have a hard time in pronouncing the /d͡ʒ/ sound (like in "jump"), and they turn it into a /ʝ/ (like in Spanish "yo"). Also, sometimes they find it difficult to pronounce "v" and "sh" correctly (as these sounds don't exist in contemporary peninsular Spanish).
So accurate. Buenas observaciones!
As someone fluent in both English and Spanish, I can both a) confirm that this is true, and b) point out the obvious fact that this single comment was more useful than the whole video.
Realmente has descrito todas mis dificultades al pronunciar.
That's funny,
I'm from Latin America and we don't have that problem with the "h" sound, in Latin Spanish we pronounce it perfect xD but we do have problems with the "th" sound that only exists in Spain, So they have an advantage there.
I had no idea they don’t pronounce the “v” in peninsular Spanish anymore. I knew that most people confuse v and b but I didn’t know it went to that extent
Sofia exaggerates her accent though.
Thanks WW
And a lot. I'm a spanish speaker and I find her way of talk so fucking annoying.
this is true, watch Prince's Cream video (yes, she was a Prince girl!) she has a small speaking role and her accent is much less noticeable and she was very young
I am latina and have zero accent, but can fake it when i need to. Boys love it
No she doesn't
you forgot to mention the one that's perhaps the most iconic. "we Espeak Espanish"
Yeah the s sound with absolutely no vowel before it was pretty hard to learn. It simply does not exist in Spanish so the person has to learn the sound from scratch
wi espik inglix
@@Jhiido Most English speaking people don't, people like David Beckham or Gareth Bale speak Spanish so bad they usually don't even bother trying. Even Michael Robinson, who commented on Spanish TV for decades, had an unmistakably heavy English accent.
Our language evolved from Latin in the same way. We were unable to not pronounce prothetic vowels in time of the Romans and we are still are.
Hahahaha I’m related to it! 🤣🤣. I still say Espeak
I heard kind of a saying once that it says:
The person who speaks 2 languages is called bilingual, the person who speaks 3 languages is called trilingual and the person who speaks 1 language is called English.
I found it sooooooo true
The persons who speak 3 or more lenguaje, They are called polyglot
Gemma Urbano that's pretty funny!
That's so real, English people don't have to learn a new language cuz they speak English as well, very different in case of Spanish speakers, or lots of languages more, because we got to learn English
Off that's a low blow but funny
You used the most stereotyped (forced) spanish accent which does not represent how most native spanish speakers really speak english
Mm no
Yes, she has an special entonation. Most Spanish speakers do not speak like this
Al contrario. Muchos errores que yo mismo cometo son los mismos que se señalan en el video.
@@Berfras puede ser que no llegues al sonido exacto del fonema, nadie te va a juzgar, pero en el caso de esta mujer esque no hace ni el mas minimo esfuerzo en intentar pronunciar bien las vocales, es descarado
@@Berfras Puedes cometer los mismos errores y muchos también, sin significar que la mayoría los comete. El acento de Sofía es forzado por un tema de marketing de ella misma, y está bien. No obstante, me parece que no representa la forma en que la mayoría de los hispanohablantes pronuncia el inglés.
At least Spanish speakers make the effort of learning another language. I would like to hear an English speaker talking is Spanish without any accent
Lesley Dark Bro, you miss the entire point of this video. He is not saying shame on you for not sounding like a native English speaker; he is simply pointing out what sound differences or omissions create a Spanish accent.
English is language Barbarian. The English speak very bad Latin, yes.
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Lesley Dark agree!! They sound so funny! Hahaha
Superholly :3
Why do English speakers stereotype the Spanish language and people with tropical music?
Because they get next to zero interaction with the european spanish culture, besides toros and paella.
because the lack of culture and education, basically for them, all spanish speakers are caribeans, and according them, all caribeans sounds like that. Ignorants: yes, something to concern: nah.
what do you want them to use? kpop?
Yeah, because those are the only two options. *rolls eyes*
no veo el problema... camine por las calles acá, al menos en Costa Rica no se puede caminar a fin de año sin que suene Jugo de Piña cada 200 metros
To be fair, Sofía Vergara's accent is horrible, even for non native speakers standards
Yes someone understands!
Im Spanish and I dont speak like this at all! Guess what, Im a stupid 15 year old and I dont even find it difficult
I agree, she doesn't even try
i think she likes to keep it that way or something because, yes it is horrible
Yea but if u learn english at age 20 or so you would be very much likely to have bad grammer and pronunciation
What do you mean by "horrible accent"?
No entiendo porqué algunos de los comentarios parecen haber sido dictados por el despecho o incluso la agresividad de algunos hispanohablantes ; por favor, este chico no ataca a nadie, no se ha ni burlado ni mostrado un hipotético desprecio. Tampoco ha pretendido en ningún momento que los anglófonos se desenvuelven mejor en el otro sentido, como algunos parecen haberlo interpretado aquí. A mi gran pesar, tengo que reconocer que muchos de entre nosotros reaccionamos a veces de una manera ofuscada y hasta infantil cuando nos creémos tratados con arrogancia (particularmente los latinoamericanos, aunque no sé exactamente porqué). Seamos un poco mas adultos; vamos, aceptemos las críticas constructivas y mejoremos lo que se puede..y lo que no se puede, bueno..tolerancia, pués..
Idem, esta simplemente mostrando los errores mas comunes que solemos cometer en la pronunciacion, no esta humillando, ridiculizando ni imponiendose sobre nadie, no se que necesidad existe de tomar absolutamente todo como una afrenta personal.
Y ya que estoy, aclaro que es evidente que eligio a esa mujer para ejemplificar el tema tratado por que tiene un acento latino bastante marcado, no tendria sentido haber elegido a una persona hispanohablante con un acento ingles mas natural para ejemplificar los errores si evidentemente no los cometen. Que ganas de ofenderse e insultar por cualquier cosa tienen algunos.
Este chico no deja de ser británico y muchos sabemos como son.... Se creen la hostia divina
Habló el catedrático jajaja Gracias por poner "cordura" y "sensatez" en los comentarios 😂😂😂
@@luisdelrosalc Eh? Flaco es un video para mejorar tu acento, nada mas, no le busques el pelo al huevo, y eso de que los britanicos son creidos es una generalizacion basada en, quiero pensar yo, evidencia anecdotica, que no vale para nada
@@alfonsoalfonso9222 si tienes pelos suficientes en el huevo como tú mencionas, te recomiendo que viajes más..... I've been to the UK many times.... I've worked in Bristol for a while too, so I know how "brits" are.... Viva Sofía Vergara... Este "nerd" tiene fijación con esta bella mujer jajaja Tarugos hay en todas partes, también es verdad.... cheers mate... 😂😂😂
Sofia Vergara seems to exaggerate her accent as part of her "Latina" allure in the industry; many Latin-American and Spanish actors do this as they usually only get stereotypical roles in films. One commonality with people from mainland Spain is that they will pronounce each and every syllable in words as is the norm with the Spanish spoken in most mainland Spain. On the other hand, I've found that many Latin Americans have a tendency to elongate syllables when speaking in English; ditto for Andalusians and Canarians in Spain. Just my observation as someone who goes back & forth between a pseudo East-London accent and a Castilian accent.
Motorcycle Gear Hub opino lo mismo, su acento parece exagerado a propósito. Es demasiado marcado. conozco muchos colombianos y no hablan ingles asi
yep, it's true, in fact she accepts that in an interview. it's her bussines.
that is so true. thats her business
Ir could be, but his son had said in interviews that she tries to pronounce words better. The problem is that it’s still difficult to her. She could be exaggerating her accent, but learning a new language with good pronunciation isn’t easy for everyone. Specially if you started learning it at an older age.
Wow you seem a very intellectual person
I believe it's easier for a Spanish speaker to speak English fluently, than for a English speaker to speak spanish
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No it's not
I'm not agree with you, in English there are more sounds than in Spanish, for example,a spanish student only has to learn how to pronounce 5 vowels sounds while an English student has to learn how to pronounce 13 vowels sounds.
@@eduarditomedinaespana2348 yeah, but i think they meant the grammar, the pronunciation is obviously more difficult in English than in Spanish. Spanish grammar is quite difficult compared to English grammar.
@@inksword6029 Probe him wrong!
I didn't realize everyone hated her accent so much 😮 I love her accent!
Same
so I am an Italian with a Spanish accent when speaking English
MR. worldwide
Italian and Spanish are very similar because they are Latin cousins
a free tip for english speakers who want to speak spanish:
learn how to pronounce the RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
like: Rapido Ruedan las Ruedas del Ferrocarril
carlos tejada if a non-Spanish speaker can get the RRRR right, they will master the language in no time
Yes but don't go half an hour pronouncing it, it's a single letter for a reason.
You can get the idea of what we hear by doing it with this:
Run Charlie, according to this thing, you've only ran five laps!
It just sounds wrong
Pablominekk
most of the times, 1/2 hour is not enough!
it's a new sound you've never made... the tongue must be up, and while still up, you must throw air
El perro de San Roque no tiene rabo porque Ramón Ramírez se lo ha cortado :v
JIJIJI . Malvado.
Creí que mi inglés era horrible hasta que escuché a Sofia Vergara y Peña Nieto xd
creo que lo sabrían por un par de cosas más ;)
Es lo mejor, suena atractivo y de manera simpática un acento marcado que indique que tal idioma no es tu lengua materna. Imagina gente extranjera que llegue al punto de hablar tan perfecto español e imitar un acento en particular, pierden, digamos su "gracia" de anglos, rusos, franceses etc etc.
es verdad
maduro diciendo "nice" se escucha "nike"
Sofía lo hace a propósito, ella tiene acento perfecto pero es famosa por hablar terrible 😂
En un episodio de Modern Family ella comienza a hablar como americana y todos quedan como what the hell??? Entonces ella vuelve a ser la de antes porque nadie se pudo acostumbrar al cambio 😂
I dare you to try pronouncing some spanish words xD with double R
Marduk Torres que diga RAMIREZ
O RODRIGO
I wan they to say my name ( argenis) llevó 6 ańos en Estados Unidos y aún nadie puede pronunciarlo bien xD
I dare. Fanfarrón. Perro. Carretera. Turrón. How did I do?
Imagenlo tratando de decir palabras con Ñ y doble re
Ñoño y cigarro
But you dont tell the reason why we talk English like that, yeah at first sight it is obvious: because we are pronouncing those words like they will sound in Spanish.
But the real reason why I would say it's because in Spanish every vocal sounds the same no matter the consonant before and after de vocal. So when we see a vocal in an English word we are so use to make the same sound for that vocal that we just do it.
This is so true, that we can read even words that doesnt exists and it's easier to spell out words in Spanish because of that.
Why do english ppl sound english when speaking a different language?
Very funny
RIGHT
Same haha
True
Fact
In short, they speak English with a Spanish phonology.
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YEAH :-)
Apparently, this guy is unaware of the existence of phonology or phonetics, so he feels he's made some sort of discovery.
In fact, in English there are more sounds than in Spanish, that's why the English learners we have to learn those sounds to improve our accent.
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That’s what accent is about. You speak the language using your native language’s phonology.
(english speakers)
spanish = mexico
Al chile si we
O españoles
@@toallitashumedas5819 generalmente mexicanos porque Estados Unidos y México son limitrofes
@@gebo.042 y si xd
@@gebo.042 Justo vengo de una clase donde nos explicaban los diferentes significados de la palabra "dull" xd.
Sofia vergara is just like Shakira....
Nadie entiende lo que dice,no importa si habla Spanish or english.
Un nombre, Nada mas jajajajajaja amé tu comentario
True! I thought I was the only one who couldn’t understand them at times. When I was a child I used to make up Shakira’s lyrics cause I couldn’t understand what she was saying.
4real man, Shakira songs translated over to English make no sense.
JAJAJA sii, El problema de Shakira es que traduce expresiones del español Al inglés...y eso no es correcto porque cada idioma tiene sus propios modismos. Entonces, a veces, al escucharla como que inventa refranes o expresiones xD y suena raro
We used to understand Shakira xP
As a Spanish speaker, I liked this video but I have a few criticisms with your choice. I believe Sofia Vergara is a nice way to illustrate some of these points but is not very representative. I don't know if it is intentional or not but she tends to overplay some of the things she says to add a "latina" feel to it as opposed to, say, Pedro Pascal who still maintains an accent while speaking in English but is not as exaggerated. Perhaps a Mexican actor (or actress) would be a better choice?
It's difficult to say who is representative. Obviously each Spanish speaker will sound different depending on his/her personality, level of English, confidence, and Spanish language background. I've taught Colombian speakers (and other Spanish speakers) who have far stronger accents than Sofia Vergara and who do not consciously "exaggerate" their accent. Also, I specifically chose clips of Sofia Vergara speaking in interviews rather than when she was acting to get more natural examples of her speaking voice. Thanks for watching!
lol that's what everyone thinks, even myself used to think that I din't have that big accent, but in the first job that involved speaking english with natives i realized how big my accent is.
Obiously this is coming from a mexican in mexico who studied english in school , videos, etc and all that but when speaking to a lot of native speakers, in person just then one realizes...I
I didn't notice Pedro Pascal had am accent, the only time I heard him speak with am accent was in Game of thrones, lol
*an accent, sorry
As a spanish speaker too, I find this hilarious, because Sofia sounds like one who is starting to speak in english which is accurate for this video, and also she does the accent on purpose to keep her latina heritage and be funny (which is why americans love her), and as you can check in one of the Ellen videos, she can speak with american accent, well, is just a phrase what she says but her accent is much more better! Another one who keeps her accent as a latina is Salma Hayek.
Why do they sound spanish? Because they are spanish speakers lol too hard question
Ariel RD hahahaha
Not really.
The video is a more in-depth analysis of what makes Spanish-native English speakers sound Spanish-native.
Typical English Mr Bean like Sofia Vergara...fuck England! I am French-Spanish!!
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I'm afraid you missed a very important one: the (open) e before the S. Espanish instead of Spanish or Espace instead of Space. I think it follows the rule you mentioned about being used to say duos of consonants + vowels. A habit really hard to break for some.
I love this video. It makes so evident the struggles of my people. Every spanish speaker should watch this video to learn how to avoid those common mistakes. Thank you man.
Saw "Why do Spanish speakers sound Spanish?"
Coz they're Spanish I guess
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Ikr. The title left me in confusion.
Which is the reason I decided to even watch it.
Yeah, terrible title. “Why do Spanish speakers sound off when they speak English” or “what tells apart a native Spanish speaker” would have been better
Be careful. The Russians might kidnap you.
not all native spanish speakers are spanish, latinoamerica exists
But Sofia Vergara speaks like that because of her show, because of her character, she exaggerates it. normal Spanish accent sounds how for example Shakira pronounces, a little bit more English but we can still feel spanish accent sometimes, i'm spanish and that's how My English speaking sounds.
Hanner Goenaga but that doesn’t change what the features of our accent are, it might be softer, but we fail at the same points.
Y lo interesante es que Sofia y Shakira son de la misma ciudad.
I think he showed Vergara's examples for pedagogic reasons. What I mean is that, just because she exagerates her accent, it's easy to notice the phenomena he's talking about. Less extreme accents have the same issues, but they're not as good examples just because they're not as extreme.
Yo tambien soy de la misma ciudad, solo que como Shakira, yo aprendi a imitar un poco el acento Americano.
The thing is that English speakers are going to tend to generalize lantinamerican accent and they ussually feel frustrated with our accent causing xenophobia and it doesn't feel well.
Es curioso como personas se sienten ofendidas y comparadas con Sofia como si se dijera en el video que ella nos representa. En resumen lo que dice es que sonamos a español debido a la forma de pronunciar las vocales y letras en español.
The point that people are trying to make on the comments is the Vergara exaggerates her accent.
@@celestet9941 when I speak english my accent is very noticeable and I can't help it, I think there are times when I sound like Vergara
Imagine this guy talking in Spanish, that would be so funny to hear to a Spanish speaker
A Dr. In language pronunciation? He probably will sprak better than you
@@darknadanada12395 why are you butt hurt?
I can correct his spanish too 😏
Wow, you must an irritated asshole, don't cha?
@@1989menutheiswhat calm down karen 🤣, you're the one irritated over a simple comment 😂
The explanation is easier: English language has at least 44 sounds, whereas Spanish only 24. Greetings from CDMX.
Spanish accents. (Puts Sophia Vergara) I'm done lol
She's a speaker of Spanish isn't she? Not Spanish as in from Spain.
@@mayaaa3140 I think his talking as Spanish as in language and not as in country.
Right?!😂 I was laughing the whole video and that's somewhat my rasa! Lol🇲🇽
@@KassandraVonBopy all Spanish-speaking countries have different accents
should had used Hispanic not Spanish
Hay 2 razones muy obvias por las cuales generalmente un hispanoparlante tiene dificultades al hablar el inglés:
-hay muchos menos sonidos/fonemas en español (creo que 22, versus 44 del inglés). Por lo tanto, tenemos que aprender a producir más de 20 sonidos nuevos (aparte del vocabulario, gramática, etc). La inversa no ocurre: hay sólo 1 o 2 sonidos en español que no existen en inglés.
-el español es un idioma fonético (se lee y pronuncia igual que se escribe) y el inglés no (no solamente eso, sino que no tiene reglas de pronunciación claras), por lo tanto tenemos que aprender a "decir" cada palabra nueva que aprendemos leyendo.
You’re really amazing analytical person,, you just got those gaps perfectly 👍🏻🙂
Though I agree with much of what you said, having Sofia Vergara as an example for Spanish speakers is not exacly representative of most Spanish speakers. European Spanish speakers sound completely different to American Spanish speakers when speaking English.
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I have some colleagues from Spain, and the first time I met them I said immediately you are from Spain
Robert M thank you 🙏 that’s exactly what my thought was. She’s the worse example. She speaks like that on purpose that was her strategy to get into Hollywood and it worked.
Daniel Quintana That's pretty silly men, even here we speak different from each other.
Sofía Vergara speaking spanish with colombian accent because she is from Colombia! She is from latín Americ. Spanish people is from Spain (Europe) lol.
latin america has many variety of accent.
@@17435lauraalejandra i live in Colombia and everybody I know speaks like that
@@17435lauraalejandra it also depends on the region, I am rolo
ella tiene ese acento porque es de la costa de colombia, asi hablamos aca.
Actually in USA we are called Spaniards, while Spanish is used to refer to anyone from an Spanish speaking country.
Her accent is particularly bad, though...
She is the perfect stereotype of a Spanish speaker
No, todos los puntos se puede aplicar a la mayoría de los hispanohablantes que aún no dominan el inglés.
@@compulsivecommenter990 Por eso, ella domina la estructura del inglés, solo que por personaje no hace lo mismo en la pronunciación.
preparing for a role. this was perfect. thank you!
The main issue is that in english the letters and the sounds dont match in the same way, it depends on the word (yes, its a big mess). In spanish, most of letters have one unique pronunciation, so spanish native creates a kinda close accent.
Exactly, very well explained!
Even though you may be correct, most of the words in Spanish are pronounced differently as they are written. We are so enclosed in our Spanish pronunciation that we do not realize that we make every sound differently. Brief example, say "dedo", you'll realize that both "ds" are pronounced differently, even though in writting is the same letter :)
@@sergiokariel a mi esas D me suenan igual, depende de la region
podrias considerar que suenan un poco differentes porque ambas tienen dos vocales diferentes después de ellas pero siguen sonando iguales para mi
@@Elinzar entiendo lo que dices, pero a lo que me refiero es a la fonética estándar del español, sin referirme a ninguna región en específico. Haz la prueba, la primera es postdental (colocas la punta de tu lengua detrás de los dientes, más abajo de la cresta alveolar) y el sonido es oclusivo (se retiene el aire). Mientras que la segunda es aproximadamente al interdental (entre los dientes), y además es fricativo (puedes liberar el aire constante mente, como por ejemplo es sonido /f/). En esa forma son dos sonidos fonéticamente distintos, pero fonológica mente iguales, pues lo entendemos solamente como el sonido /d/. Igual las variaciones regionales en este sentido son mínimas.
Vas y pones un ejemplo de algo que para la mayoría de castellanoparlantes resultaría imperceptible en caso de que pronunciases la segunda D igual que la primera. Como mucho pensarías, inconscientemente, que suena algo raro, pero no cambiaría nada en la palabra ni la haría difícil de entender ni nada por el estilo. No, no es ni de lejos comparable el caso del castellano con el del inglés en esos términos en los que la escritura y la fonética llegan a ir totalmente por separado (en el caso de los angloparlantes). Muy cogido con pinzas lo que has querido aseverar.
The beauty of being bilingual is transmitting culture . Nobody should feel ashamed of having an accent , you should feel proud of your accent and there’s no need to get rid of it . The aim of a language should be always to communicate:) greetings . I really like your videos though!
Well, if people want to get rid of an accent why make them feel ashamed? It's up to the individual. Also being understood is not the point but rather how do you like your voice to sound, it's more an aesthetic choice. Whether one wants to keep their accent or change it it's fine :)
por qué fue la causa del accidente?
Some People just want to improve their pronunciation as me. I am not ashamed of being Spanish but it doesn't mean I don't want to sound good in English.
This was incredibly useful!!! I studied English to the point of being proficient, but speaking has always been the greatest challenge for me. And I've never been properly corrected on my mistakes. So even tho I don't sound like Sofía Vergara, ends up I've always been pronouncing horribly. Realizing that is so embarrassing kfdkdk
But your video is awesome for me to improve 💪🏻
Great video! The point is that there are different accents, and while there's nothing wrong about them, it's still important to understand them. A good example is Slavoj Zizek, I am not a native English speaker, and he has a strong accent, but I can understand him perfectly, which is the only thing that matters. If you want to sound more like a native speaker go ahead, but keep in mind that this is just an unnecessary embellishment, and if you find it difficult you shouldn't worry too much about it.
¿En serio estas poniendo a Sofia Vergara como ejemplo de la pronunciación inglesa por parte de hispanoparlantes? Eso es como que un delfín se ponga a hablar mandarín. Por no decir que no todos los hispano-parlantes pronunciamos igual el inglés ya que el dialecto cambia según país o región y varia segun el nivel.
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Creo que la eligió a ella precisamente porque tiene un acento muy exagerado, por lo que es más fácil entender y escuchar las diferencias
pues fue lo primero que el dijo ... .que sabía que existían muchos acentos de latinos pero que era el ejemplo que iba a usar para poder dar mejor referencia........... Se le nota que le entendió :V
Didn't you listen to the words? _"...of course there are many varieties of Spanish spoken across the world but most of these features apply to most varieties..."_ Why you bitchez gotta hate?
Yo creo que ella exagera el acento, pero si me siento identificada con algunos de sus ' errores' soy argentina. Me choca un poco el estereotipo de latina hot que promueve ella pero es indistinto a lo que se quiere explicar en este video
I think people took too personal this video. He's not criticizing a spanish accent, he's pointing out some common mistakes spanish speakers make and how to correct them. People are too sensitive and don't take constructive advices (he needs to improve his spanish pronunciation though).
Yanela Fabra are you dumb? We are not talking about him criticizing spanish speakers. We are talking about him using an essagerated example which most of the spanish speakers don't use.
Saderx you are the dumb in here,not realizing he's using an exagerated example to make it very clear. Seems it wasn't clear for people like you though...
quite silly you used the word "mistakes"... i wonder how many "mistakes" people from Australia, USA, etc... make because they dont sound british....
if we talk about "mistakes" i would like to point out the way he says sofia vergara's last name..... is vergara.... soft spanish "r" ....bɛɾ.ˈɣa.ɾa.... why do English sound English?
I agree with you abt people getting annoyed at it, but I think the context of the video is more explicative than anything else?. Like he points out the reasons why spanish speakers have these accents, but I don't think that it is something that is wrong, there are a lot of accents on the anglo spectrum, and "hispanic" accent is just one of them
Indeed
Accents are beautiful! It’s true that we have to make the effort of speak proper English but the accent always it’s going to be there no matter how long have you living overseas, specially in people who have learned English at mature ages .
This video helped me realize I make different hesitation sounds when I’m speaking different languages, genuinely the first time I have been mind blown in a long time
She's not a good example. I'm a native spanish speaker and i do not speak like that.
DeVal Absolutely. I may have an accent but is not so exaggerated
DeVal you don’t speak with that strong accent but your accent has the same features, regardless of being softer, I’m Hispanic too btw.
It's because she exaggerates.
She's a really good example. This is not about you speaking a perfect english is about the characteristics that makes you sound like a spanish speaker
AlbMosq27 i know, but that's not her real accent, it's a fake one.
A ver, ¿cuantos hablais español?
La Senda Del Águila YT me cago en tus muertos. Digo, yo!!😀
He aquí una hispana parlante
Yo
Aprendo español en la cole en Alemania
Nepe :v
That was a nice video, I've learnt a lot and I'm looking forward to improve my English accent with your lessons. Greetings from Spain.
I speak Spanish and English too, I have autism level 1, and it's a little difficult to me to identify and perceive different accents or try to imitate them, and process some information fragments by hearing at the first try, that happens to me in both languages, but I think your video help me to analyze my own pronunciation in some words, my accent is not as strong as Sofia's, but I understand her clearly; her hesitation sounds weird, but I like her personality.
Ms. Vergara speaks english with "Acento Costeño" (Colombian Caribbean Accent) and she does it intentionally. Here in Colombia we have several different accents as you have yours in the UK. Regardless of this, I understand your point when you say that we (spanish speakers) have a common pronunciation 👋
We in Spain watch TV series and movies dubbed to Castillian Spanish, which sounds completely different to American dialects. Well, in "Modern Family" her dubbing voice actress even exaggerates the Colombian accent, that's a funny key aspect in that comedy.
@Francisco That's interesting. Which accent does the dubbed Castilian version use for Sofia? Bogota accent or Costeño/Caribbean accent?
Roberto Goodfellow I live in Spain but I'm from Colombia and the dub doesn't sound Colombian, is more like a mix of Mexican with a bit of the Caribbean accent in some parts, they try but doesn't sound like her or Colombian
Francisco Javier Crespo All Spanish is Castillian.It is not only Spanish from Spain.
Dreams Love: Not at all. Who has told you so? While the language is the same, there are dozens of accents across America and Spain itself. Castillian is just the original one.
Proud of my Puerto Rican English accent; as long as I can be understood I see no issues with it. At least we speak more than one language, other people don’t or can’t...
ale you ploud of it ? :v estas orgulloso de tenel el acento polto liqueño ? :V :V .
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@@otrocanalmas8096 JAJAJAJ
me pregunto si los angloparlates se cachodean del acento de otros angloparlates de diferente lugar
@@yutubve Se, vi muchas veces que jodian a los aussies o a los neo zelandeces, o entre americanos y britanicos
Oh wow! Thanks for the video! VERY EFFECTIVE!
I do have issues pronouncing the short vs. the long i sound. For instance: dip / deep, hill / heel, etc.
Thanks for the vid!
it's because they are Spanish
jk I love phonology tell me every accent feature
maybe you could say that if you were some kind of hater and dirtbag prescriptivist
Americans speak English, that makes them Englishmen? Why do you mix Spanish and Hispanics?
Sorry. I mean "hispanohablantes"
Gabriel Castro all latinos are hispanic but not all hispanic are latinos
It's called phonetics,, beginning at 3 years old , a child learns to make sounds by imitating those around him/her , hence developing "muscle memory". So as an adult ,, when a person tries to learn to Speak another language ,, it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to loose your phonetics that you learned as a child.
Everybody has an accent ,,, some are more pronounced than others.
We in Spanish have just 5 vowels, while English speakers have 12. However, most students are able to pronounce characteristic sounds like "ɜː" in "girl", even though we're NEVER taught at shool how "ɯ", "ʊ", "ø", "ɘ", "ɵ", "ɛ", "œ", "ʌ", "ɐ", etc... sound like, or use the phonetic alphabet AT ALL while studying a foreign language in Spain!
Joder mas claro agua, gracias por explicárselo.
It's not almost impossible. It's hard, but with a lot of practice you can sound like a native speaker.
Thanks man, I'm native Spanish speaker and appreciate the explanation to improve my accent
My first language is Spanish on my father's side from Spain. When I started school here in the US I tried not to speak too much because most of the other students were Hispanics and I didn't want to get a Hispanic accent. So I started to practice with Welsh speaking videos and now I have a Welsh accent.
Por pendejo lol
It is actually very interesting to identify the specific sounds that create an accent in order to make it better!
In the French on and in the Spanish one, I think you didn't mention the pronunciation of the letter "r" which is often quite relevant of an accent. Is it a choice?
Yes, I didn't mention the pronunciation of the letter "r" because I feel it is quite an obvious one. I wanted to pick out features that people may not notice.
If you have dificulties pronouncing the r just drop it like caribbeans, there's people who can't roll their tongues because of their anatomy
I just want to point out a small mistake. In Spanish there are syllables that end in 'm'. For example, p and b can only be preceded by m, and never by n. Thus, we have words like imposible (im-po-si-ble), ambición (am-bi-ción) or ejemplo (e-jem-plo). Furtheremore, although it is true that just a few words end in -m, there are a few that are commonly used (and in which that sound is indeed pronounced like m). These words usually come from other languages (ídem, módem, Islam), but they do exist and they are fairly common.
Very helpful!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks! It was very helpful
Latino Spanish sounds different than Spainiard Spanish.
Jonathan Rois Matarín pero los estadounidenses no los consideran a los españoles Europeos jajajajaja ellos piensan que ustedes son latinoamericanos tambien los españoles no tienen cara tan fina europea para decir que son europeos
Zvonkylicious Gracias por compartir tu incultura.
Jonathan Rois Matarín no hay de que))) mi comentario inculto se vio atraído por uno similar)
Zvonkylicious disculpa por "mentir" diciendo que el castellano latino y español suenan diferente. Creo que es obvio.
Jonathan Rois Matarín cual español laino? Hay mas de 20 acentos españoles latinos asi como 20 acentos de la misma españa que son distintos! Ninguna region habla como la ota, asi que decir que tal español es distinto al otro es entendible, pero poner barreras, creyendo hacer o querer ser diferencia no, he vivido en españa y he podido asimilar muchos acentos similares a los de america latina, los de sevilla por ejemplo hablan muy similar a los chilenos, o me diras tu que uno de Andaluz habla igual que un Madrileño?
your video it's ok about what you want to prove, nevetheless I think you are confusing Spanish accent with Hispanic American accent.
Eduardo Barrezueta I think that for him and other British, the Latin Americans and Spaniards are in effect the same, which is fine. Unlike Americans that can't pronounce their English correctly, regional Appalachian is a more common accent where you notice all the vowels sound similar
It's funny how even in England there are several different accents and here in the USA, regional Appalachian is more prevalent. It's of course a most wonderful thing that people of Spanish descent love to keep their language and accent
You have to say the same for Italians
The accents is not exclusive of England or USA. There are lots of different Spanish accents. Only within Spain you can find many different accents depending on the region you are from, and in some regions there are more than one accent.
In this case is exactly the same as we make the same mistakes
This was an awesome video with example! ☺️
dude you're good. very knowledgeable. i have lots of spanish coworkers and it's so true
Thanks for pointing out these subtleties with excellent real life examples. They will be very helpful in my quest to become a fluent Spanish speaker.
I've always tried my best to sound as good as possible in english. Natural english speakers have told me I barely sound hispanic. I just wish the americans or british would try their best to speak and pronounce spanish correctly.
Brix Perez Some of them really do. I have met many Americans born here and without an Hispanic family that have a great accent, even when they can't say a lot of things.
Brix Perez No, American English is too lazy. Our mouths are too loose for Spanish. 😄😄😄
Yo totally de acuerdo with you.
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Brix Perez I try I am just very bad at it😟
Lol this one video helped me with my Spanish accent so much. I have a crush and he speaks Spanish mostly and i want to talk to him, so I'm practicing more than I was. Wish me luck guys!
As an English teacher for spanish Speakers, I absolutely agree with your video. It's hard for Spanish speakers like us to learn all the phonetics because they simply do not exist in Spanish. But I guess it's normal for every language you learn. Of course getting to speak a second language (even with mistakes) is a great achievement.
As a Spanish speaker, I think one of the most difficult sounds is the schwa. We don't have that sound in our system.
YTFever i guess is from russian Щ (Sch) I didn’t see some words in english with Schwa
Zvonkylicious schwa is the most common sound in English. It appears in words like "colour" (the last vowel sound), "again" (the first vowel sound) or "celebrate" (the second vowel sound)
English is language Barbarian. The English speak very bad Latin, yes.
Isidious you are a moron
SCHWA is pretty easy. I would say that one of the easiest in my opinion
As you went through them I was thinking of the words as I would say them in English when speaking Spanish and, yeah, it all holds up
I'm from South Spain and we speak really fast + we cut some consonants or vocals from words to speed up the conversation. I think this is one of the problems we ( native Spanish speaker ) have. I can notice that my English is very fluent and pretty good when I speak slowly but I tend to speak faster so when I heard myself on a recorded conversation I can see some of the problems. Also, I studied British English but I moved to NY to work there for 4 years and I got some American accent ( people used to tell me from Brooklyn ) I still to this day I mix British with American English very often.
I am italian but in Ireland more than one person asked me if I was spanish 😁 and they thought I was joking when saying to be italian 😂 I guess it is because my accent from Brescia 🗣🗣🗣
Can you please make a similar video showing differences in American and British accent ?
Of course you can't cover all the stuff but just the prominent ones. Thanks in advance.
Yes, at some point I will!
I've made that video here: th-cam.com/video/vj7o0AAfM1U/w-d-xo.html
The English sound "th" as in The or This is in the Spanish "d" at the end or between vowels like in "haDa" "ciuDaD" "MadriD" "daDo" every Spanish speaker uses it but a very few speakers associate it with the English th letters.
henhaooahneh conversely, when English native speakers speak Spanish, they tend to say the D in ciuDaD and MaDriD as an English D, which is why it sounds so unnatural to Spanish speakers. They don't know that they do have the correct pronunciation of D in their own language too, which is D.
I mean, Th
the "th" sound can also be a "z" in the Spain's way to pronounce it, like in "something" som-zing, this is a sound I'd like Hispanic americans to bring back to the region, I don't know why we stopped using the "z"
That sound is not exactly the same (even though most phoneticians and linguists write them with the same symbol). As the video pointed out, spanish speakers pronounce it with the tongue between the teeth while english speakers don't.
Alejandro González Becouse your accent comes from the South of Spain, "acento andaluz", becouse the vast majority of ships sent to the new world came from Andalucía
Bro, I really fucking Love this video, everyone can speak however they want but, I would like to learn English perfectly, as perfect as possible, and this video helps a lot. I got no problem with ppl who wanna speak like a Spanish person speaking English, but from my perspective I don’t like that accent at all. En fin cada uno es libre de hacer lo que quiera
Everyone will notice your accent, but maybe they won't hate to talk with you. That's my goal, to get rid of my spanish accent as much as possible. I am using the IPA and the phonetics charts.
Really interesting. Thanks for that.
Why do English speakers sound English? 🤷
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Insidious Shut up! Close your fucking mouth!
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The vowels are a major problem for us, foreigners, no matter where we come from! 😬 We really need an excellent IPA knowledge and lots of practice of it!
yes! IPA's for everyone!!
As long as english speakers can understand what we say there´s no problem. Just take a look at native african english speakers, they sound closer to us
I love Spanish accent so much, I hope there's a podcast for English with Spanish accent.
You are an amazing really knowledgeable teacher, well done!
Interesting discussion about accents. It is really tough to hide your mother tongue. Im a Spanish speaker. I always try to do my best in English. I feel my strong accent cause now Im also speaking Russian.
It's easy. Sofia is pronouncing some words in stright Spanish pronunciation and she doesn't care about it because her mother language is Spanish and she is accepted for the English speaker public. Great! Moreover, I can hear that she has a Colombian accent and possible from the coast if you have noted the rythm of her speaking when she talks.
His question: Why do spanish speaker sound spanish?
*My question: Why do gringos sound gringos?!?!?*
Exactly
Her Spanish accent is so cute. It is exotic and unique.
Do more video about others speakers💕 i love watching this. Subscribed !
It's Aleena attthkm. Mnbmjooo
They are 500 millions spanish speakers in the world, and we all speak exactly like Sofia Vergara. Absolutely.
Si fueramos a hablar comodamente claro que sonariamos como ella. Lo que pasa es que algunos de nosotros nos esforzamos por pronunciar Ingles correctamente. Pero esa es la manera que todos nosotros hablaramos el Ingles si lo hicieramos con comodidad.
Thanks for your video, very informative. I highly recommend books such ss: Ship or sheep. And other from either Oxford or Cambridge University Press.
Very useful, thank you!
Pero nosotros no te jodemos cuando ustedes “hablan” en español 😂😂
Sergio Díaz Nila cálmate Papá Francisco es un chiste
😂😂😂😂😂
Ellos no tienen necesidad de hablar español xd
Im a spanish native speaker, born, raiced and learned english in Dominican Republic. We have a strong caribbean accent in spanish and we speak fast. To be honest with you I DO NOT HAVE Sofia Vergara accent, her accent is intentional just to have fun. But spanish speaker we do not speak with that accent in English. We have different accent depends on your nationality. Dislike.
Brenda De Jesus Colombians sound like her. My parents are colombian and sound just like her when speaking spanish. also Colombia is considered a Caribbean country too. Colombia literally has a couple of islands in the caribbean ocean. colombian culture is extremely inspired by carribean and african culture
well the Colombians I met in USA during my exchange program last summer they didnt used to sound like Sofia Vergara while they were talking. We were all Hispanics students.
Brenda De Jesus well you cant base what you think the accent is on a few colombians you met. its like saying all americans have the same accent when theres southern, new jersey, etc. Colombians who live on the coast (sofia vergara) sound different than colombians from central or southern colombian (their accent is called Paisa and is the stereotypical colombian accent you hear in movies and shows like Narcos)
Well, not all colombians are "paisas", there are people of the capital, the countryside, "pastusos", "santandereanos", we are all funny people trying to talk in english
Marlon Daniel Suarez Ruiz thats why i said paisa is the stereotypical colombian accent you see on tv and shows like Narcos
I never realised i actually change the "hesitation sound" when i switch from English to Spanish and the other way around. That's pretty interesting
So funny, nice video. As Portuguese speaker I am learning how to adapt my accent. Thanks a lot for the tips 😉
I think what makes them sound spanish too, is the sound of " Z " or " S " sometimes is pronounced as Z like the word "reason"
So spanish speakers tend to pronounce it doubled" ss" , like "reasson" instead of 'reason' and 'causse' instead of 'cause', and with Z they might say 'Sero' instead of "Zero".
Spanish doesn't really have the hard Z sound in my experience so it will always default to that more sibilant S. That and they might just be saying cero in Spanish instead of zero
That is quite true since we Spanish speakers don't have the /z/ sound in our phonetic alphabet. Also there's no words in Spanish that start with s, so we tend to say /es'paniʃ/ instead of /'spænɪʃ/
Yes, you're right - that's another feature of a Spanish accent!
*Ignacio Reidenbach*
¿Hablas en eserio?
Don't say "Spanish speakers" because in Spain, the letter "Z" is pronounced with this sound: /θ/ (as in "thanks"), so the accent and they way the pronounce words in English would be different.
Bueno, esperaré tu video hablando español sin tu acento inglés, y quiero escuchar que pronuncies adecuadamente ferrocarril, desarrollar, refrigerador, etcétera... y también que pronuncies bien el nombre de Sofía Vergara.
No sé por qué ese tono ofendido. El vídeo solo explica el acento de Sofia, no es ninguna crítica en si.
SAVAGE AF! XD
Melina Diaz exacto!
Que bobada, si se sintió ofendida vaya dese una vuelta, vuelva a ver el video y corrija sus errores, sin esta evaluación no seriamos capaces de mejorar
Spoiler: He'll fail.
Great video! It helps me a lot :)