Spanish accents around the world - everything you need to know
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- 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇦🇷 The Spanish language is not just ONE thing. As you travel the Spanish speaking world, you will notice some fascinating differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and more. In this video, I’m going to show you EXACTLY how the language changes region to region, with the help of some cool videos and even some internet celebrities!
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00:00 - Intro
01:48 - #1 Castilian
02:18 - #2 Andalusian
03:24 - #3 Murcian
04:20 - #4 Llanito
05:19 - #5 Equatoguinean Spanish
06:34 - Western Sahara
06:55 - Philippines
08:20 - Latin America
08:56 - #6 Mexican Spanish
09:42 - #7 Caribbean Spanish
10:45 - #8 Canarian Spanish
11:33 - #9 Andean Spanish
12:33 - #10 Rioplatense Spanish
14:03 - Paraguayan Spanish
14:37 - Chilean Spanish
15:09 - #11 Central American Spanish
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Double negative is the norm in Spanish, so "no necesito ningún problema" is correct whereas "necesito ningún problema" sounds off to my ears.
@Jeremias Larroca but it lacks emphasis
Quizás es una forma de hablar en America que desconozco, pero en España esa frase no tiene sentido. En todo caso sería “no tengo ningún problema”. Nunca había oído el verbo “necesitar” en una expresión así. Parece extranjero, aunque ni siquiera tiene sentido traducido al inglés: “I don’t have any problem”, instead of “I don’t need any problem”.
Indeed, “Yo no necesito ningún problema” hardly makes sense in terms of meaning, but gramatically it is perfectly correct and the double negative there is standard Spanish, not a dialectal feature. “No tengo ningún problema”, “No veo a nadie”, etc., all correct across the Spanish-speaking world.
when I was younger, when my grandmother (who is from Chile) told me not to open the door to strangers, she would word it as, "Don't open the door to nobody," in English and my English-speaking brain would be like, "interesting wording" 😁
No necesito problemas.
Native Spanish speaker here.
The double negative is actually grammatically correct in Spanish! "No tengo nada," "no tengo ningún problema con eso," "no conozco a nadie," etc.
Saying "tengo nada," "tengo ningún problema con eso," and "conozco a nadie" just sounds strange and ungrammatical lol
Yes, in many ways, it is often used to emphasize a negative. For example, "yo nunca iría" is like 'I would never go,' but "yo nunca iría jamás" is like, 'I would never go ever, why would you even ask?' Even a triple negative could be used in some situations, although it could be weird and unnecessary sometimes.
I am curious if you learned that it wasn't correct and from where that person is. I love to learn more about languages.
Used, yes, widely, yes, dont think its right tho
@@paradear what makes you think it's not right?
@@paradear el doble negativo es completamente correcto en español, el supuesto ejemplo de error que él menciona en el vídeo es la forma correcta de decirlo. Cuando habla de doble negativo como incorrecto está pensando en gramática inglesa.
@@joseivanmartes solo pienso en gramatica matematica
You, who are studying spanish:
The fact that there are so many countries with so many variations of the Spanish language, and every one of us can perfectly understand each other, makes easier to us to understand foreigners, even if they have bad pronunciation or poor vocabulary.
So, Don't be ashamed of making mistakes and try to practice speaking Spanish with native speakers! :D
I have definitely noticed that. Since I am not really fluent, but am able to "muddle through" with what I am able to say with not perfect pronunciations, the Spanish speakers, don't seem to mind, and seem to understand what I say. I compare that to the French, especially in the Alsace area, where if I slightly mispronounce a word, they look at me like I am speaking Greek.
True, I'd advise you all to practice your Spanish even if you sound a bit like "Tarzan" at the beginning. I've noticed that 99% of the time, we don't give up on you no matter how much of a beginner you are at the language, if you start attempting to say something in Spanish, we're almost always gonna find ourselves guessing words that will complete your sentences to help you communicate, like we say in Nicaragua: No te dejamos morir.
Do Mexican Spanish it easier
@@stephhslush05
It's all the same. Mexicans just dominated the media for some time that's why some people think that they are the norm
@@emanueldelacruz1101 ik but there are a lot of differences and accents
Hey! Amazing video…
You are SO knowledgeable and the way you present things is so entertaining.
Thanks for including my hubby (and potentially me) as an example of Mexican Spanish! It made us happy. ☺️
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I’m delighted to hear that!
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The word Zumo is only used in Spain. It is a very uncommon, if not an unused word in Latin America, where Jugo if preferred.
Algunos podían utilizar zumo pero es más común decir jugo así que puede ser
It's not completely unheard of in Latin America, but yeah it's pretty rare.
Panama: Chicha
@@MaximilianoHerrera72 XDDDD In Colombia chicha is a drink
Funny story. Spanish "zumo" is European Portuguese "sumo" which in Brazilian Portuguese is "suco". I worked in Timor-Leste where the peacekeepers brought along a Brazilian Portuguese dictionary. Timor has traditional leaders who head each "suco" or municipality. They are the chefes de suco, suco chiefs. It was not unheard of to hear "chefe de suco" translated as the "juice chief".
"Yo no necesito ningún problema" is not grammatically wrong; it is, rather, the only normalized way to say it. It has nothing to do with Puerto Rico.
Agree. Most Latin-American Spanish-speaking countries use it.
@@jsprite123 It's also the grammatically correct form in Spain itself.
It's really just natural to hear double negation or even triple negation sometimes
The sentence “Yo no necesito ningún problema” may be grammatically correct, but it sounds strange. Since it is supposed to be used in Puerto Rico, to me it sounds like a literal translation from slang English, as in “I don’t need no problems, mate!”. A person in this situation would rather say: “Yo no quiero problemas”, or “No quiero meterme en líos”.
@@andressorin1205 It would only sound strange if you are a non-native Spanish speaker. It sounds as natural (grammatically correct or not) to a native Spanish speaker as "I don't need/want any problem" to a native English speaker.
Spanish Professor here. Double negatives are correct in Spanish. Also, multiple negatives in a sentence is gramatically right. Spanish grammar rules state that, when is comes to nouns and parts of speech that modify them, they should agree not only in gender/number, but also if they are affirmative or negative. Therefore if a statement is negative, everything around it is negative as well.
Actually Spanish DOESN'T HAVE double negatives.
It's mistaken because words like 'ninguno', 'nadie', 'nada', 'nunca'... are negative polarity words, but aren't negative by themselves.
There's an full explanation from youtuber Linguriosa about this.
I asked “la Rae” on Twitter about the double negative thing and they told me that it was actually something mandatory. So, basically, you must say “no tengo nada”, instead of “tengo nada”.
10:43 La doble negacion en español es completamente correcta. Si dices "Yo no necesito ningun problema" es correcto, no hay ningun error gramatical en ese enunciado, pero si dices "Necesito ningún problema" tu interlucutor no entenderá lo que dices o pensará que eres estupido, porque ese enunciado no tiene ningún sentido.
O sea, tiene todo el sentido lógico, pero igual pensará que estás teniendo un derrame cerebral.
'No necesito mas problemas' sería lo mas corto y menos repetitivo
@@maohuerta "No necesito problemas" es más cercano a "No necesito ningún problema".
No necesito más problemas 👺
@@a2falcone exacto 👍
Just one point: the Canaries don´t belong to Spain, they are "Spain".
A very common mistake people from the UK and US make when talking about Spanish, French and Dutch overseas islands, probably because the UK and US never fully integrated their island colonies
Verdad? Sounds weird
@@l.k5244 Una observación muy acertada.
Como los virreinatos en América eran España pero la historiografía dominante (la inglesa ) los hace ver como propiedades (eran de España)... En fin, saludos desde Colombia.
@@user-ry1cc1im6f Exacto. Les llaman siempre colonias, projectando su propia historia y mentalidad, cuando en el caso de España nunca fueron tales. Eran provincias España y sus habitantes eran españoles, con el mismo estatus legal que los españoles de la península.
Hola a todos desde Moscú, Rusia!
Me gustan absolutamente todos los acentos, pero más estoy acostumbrado a hablar el castellano de España. Porque España es el único país hispanohablante, donde estuve. Madrid me mola un montón - mi ciudad favorita fuera de mi país.
Deberías venir a México wey, te enamorarías
@@L.D.G.J Cómo vas a comparar un país de Europa con uno de LATAM, no quiero decir que México sea feo ya que para mí es de los mejores de LATAM pero comparado con Europa...
@@AXVIRE México es uno de los países con más riqueza cultural, biodiversidad, playas, lugares turísticos, gastronomía, etc. Habrá mucha gente pobre, corrupción y narcotrafico pero México es un país hermoso, de los más hermosos del mundo
@@L.D.G.J Todos lo son bro saludos ✌️
@@L.D.G.J En gastronomía no hay nada que discutir bro, que belleza de gastronomía
Gave me butterflies talking about how beautiful Argentinian Spanish is 🥰 enjoyed the appreciation and interesting perspective on it
I’m surprised he didn’t mention that R’s are pronounced as L’s in the Caribbean
it depends on the country
Exactly, like in “Puelto Rico”.
Lambdacismo o lateralización de R, ocurre en español y en otras lenguas, también es un fenómeno que se da esporádicamente en algunos dialectos de España y como bien dices con más intensidad en el Caribe, destacadamente en Puerto Rico.
Así por ejemplo, si un puerto riquense me dirá que "tú lo lomperás", se refiere a "tú lo romperás"?
@@ja4309 el fenómeno del cambio de R por L se suele producir cuando la R está colocada al final de la palabra (mujer- Muhel, amor-amol) o bien es un cambio "Implosivo" durante la articulación de la palabra por ejem. Puerto-puelto, mierda-mielda.
Tu ejemplo no es muy probable por que no suele darse ese cambio al inicio de la palabra.
The guy who’s supposed to be speaking with Andalusian accent, he has a very neutral accent. Andalusian accent also change in every province, with the use only of the sound /s/ in the east, or the use of only /z/ more in the west. It is indeed one of the hardest accent to understand for a foreigner, but I’d say than Murcian accent is even harder.
He was doing an introduction to his video on Andalú. He has a whole series of pod casts where he speaks with a more Andalusian accent check them out th-cam.com/video/TQpQp-VQ3HY/w-d-xo.html
It isn't /z/, it is /θ/.
What Spanish accent is close to Mexican Spanish?
Argentinan here: The "ciao" thing is correct but we always pronounce (and write it) as "chau". there is also a whole and very intersting (although slowly dying) with lots and lots of foreign words from italian, african and native languages called "lunfardo" popularized by inmigrants as a way of slang.
Most of lunfardo words got lost over time but some stay like "cana" for police "laburar" (from the italian "labore") for work or "mina" for woman.
Also your friend has a great argentinean accent although a bit exaggerated. you mostly find that kind of enthusiasm on the richer, more high social status. most people talk with a much more calm accent although still very much italian.
And this is all without accounting for all the recent additions and influences from neighbouring countries when it comes to accents and slang. some may say its detrimental but i actually like some colombian or venezuelan slang getting used by everyone and added to the vocabulary.
Another thing about argentinean spanish is that while our accent may sound the same for foreigners i personally find that every single person i have met have a distinct personal accent that makes them stand out and its usualyl closely tied to family roots. for example my family wich comes mostly from spain and we do not talk with as much accent as other people i know.
Qué interesante todo! Alguna vez me gustaría viajar a Argentina. Una cosa que me parece curiosa, es que por ejemplo, en España también usamos el ciao, solo para despedirnos y también lo adaptamos a la escritura: yo por lo menos siempre lo escribo y lo he visto escrito en España como chao. :) Saludos!
@@miriamlv sacame de latinoamerica XD
. Fuera de joda Argentina es un país hermoso y no sólo en Buenos Aires. El sur especialmente es maravilloso
@@miriamlv Pero la adopción de ciao es reciente en España y el resto de Latino América. Yo tengo mis años y crecí en Argentina diciendo Ciao o Chau en reemplazo de Hola, especialmente saludando a gente en la calle o vecinos, y siempre diciéndolo como despedida. Otra influencia del italiano es que decimos Buen Día (singular) no Buenos Días.
dying? that way of speaking has just became way more recognized thanks to social media and internet in general, specially the word "mina" or the other way to say it; "minita"
"laburar" tambien ha perdurado.
I can confirm that there is like a root thing with the accent. My family came from Europe so my accent is pretty neutral and I can't stop using Spaniard words all the time. Zero "Italianism" when speaking. It's just inevitable and natural.
Ole qué bonito es ver a un extranjero con interés por nuestra lengua. Saludos desde Andalucía!
In Chilean Spanish I would rather say "E'onde erí?" xD and from Rioplatense* Spanish I would mention the use of "vos" instead of "tú". And in Latin America it is very interesting how no one uses "vosotros" unlike Spain... But well that's more going deeper into the distinct dialects more than just the "accents"
If he has been in argentina though as a spanish speaker he might not have noticed it sounded different because actually to me vos just sounds like tu when i hear Argentinians speak ...it sounds really similar you almost wouldn't notice in speech ..you really only notice in writing ...
El que conoce el idioma castellano del continente americano sabe que el "vos" es muy extendido y que los argentinos son lejos de ser los unicos en usarlo.
@@chacmool2581 nadie dijo que los argentinos somos los únicos en usarlo 😒🤌🏼
Uruguay, Honduras y Guatemala, que yo sepa, también usan el voseo
@@Shinobi_912 Sí, claro. Pero así mismo, el ejemplo del voseo aquí menciona solamente a quién? A los argentinos!
@@Shinobi_912 Chile también se usa pero cono un "Voh' " pero sólo en algunas veces y de forma informal
Double negation is essential in Spanish.
Mexican Spanish has been the most undestandable accent because they do pronounce all whole word and it makes clearly and nice to the ear.
The Spanish of mexico city ,yes , but the dialects outside mexico city less so. There's a degree of do dropping consonants like in Caribbean Spanish
The accent on México is the easiest to understand, yet I wonder if he'll dive deeper into the regions of México, Norteños and Sureños differ in quite a lot.
Exactly, Mexico is split also into proper and improper Spanish. Usually the improper Spanish is scene more in non Hispanic regions of Mexico like south of Mexico. The north of Mexico which has a higher population of mestizo to European ancestry tends to be a more proper Spanish which is usually noted in TV shows, news Chanels, and movies. It’s also identical to Spanish from Andalucía
I'm from Venezuela and back in 2014 I traveled to Spain with my sisters and pretty much everybody thought that we were from Canarias, even a Canarian couple heard us talking and they thought we were from Canarias too.
Si, en Venezuela el acento es muy descendiente de Canarias y algo de Andalucía (yo soy de Oriente, y me arriesgo a decir que ahí toma más de andalucía)
A Venezuela los canarios le llaman nuestra octava isla.
7:08 Fun fact: Filipinos have retained the old spanish pronunciation of 'Ll'
"Llama llama a llama en llamas" would be pronounced as something like "Lyama lyama a lyama en lyamas" in Philippine Spanish.
This is especially evident in how we pronounce our spanish surnames;
Agoncillo - Agonsilyo
Villanueva - Bilyanueba
Arguelles - Arguelyes
and so on.
hablas español?
@@mauroicardi13 sí. entiendo español, pero tengo que practicar mas con el hablar y escribir.
Are you calling a camelid, who is on fire, or what?
Es igual pero puede dar definición como utilizar (Llama) correctamente.
Llama 🔥 reference fire.
Llama 📞😮 call telephone.
Llama/Alpaca 🦙 name animal.
El español filipino es el mejor conservado. Además, como se ha visto, dicen "Buenas días", en lugar de "Buenos días" y dicen "la idioma" en lugar de "el idioma". Así con muchas otras palabras que terminan con a.
A good example of Mexican Spanish being easy to understand is Paulina from the easy spanish podcast, whose clarity I appreciate as a novice.
I as many others would be heavily interested to see a video like this for the Arabic dialects
Nice idea… I’d need to get some help with that but I’ll take on the challenge!
👍
As far as I know Arabic is not actually understandable between different countries
@@CrisOnTheInternet I am a native speaker of Arabic and that is incorrect arabic for the most part is intelligible across the different arab countries.
Allah akbar boooom
There's a running joke among rioplatenses about Paraguayans, "Paraguayans speak both Spanish and Guaraní, and neither of them well".
How can Rioplatenses tell Paraguayans can't speak Guaraní very well? When Guaraní is an official language in Paraguay, spoken outside of the country only in some regions of Argentina, but it's not near as common as it is in Paraguay. I mean, the joke might be somewhat funny when it comes to Spanish, because indeed our Spanish is heavily influenced by Guaraní (and we mostly speak a mix of the two languages, which we call Jopará). But I'm curious about how they made that conclusion about our Guaraní, something they probably know nothing about.
@@mistressofdarkk5937 Honestamente, ni idea supongo que la linea de pensamiento es: Su castellano suena raro--> Su guaraní debe sonar raro
@@mistressofdarkk5937I think it is only discrimination, you know, Argentinians believing they are the greatest in everything it's the rule
@@edwardbrown3721 and honestly that logic would be as dumb as it gets
Wooow it is amazing the Argentine accent, I love it, I wish one day I could speak like them!
Greetings from La Matanza
Yess argentine accent is so pretty 😍😍 greetings from Hurlingham!!
@@agustinaolea5766 A very british name, Hurlingham, I would like to speak like you too. Greetings from Banfield
Hi from Almagro the Argentinian accent is great !!
😂
I wish someday you will be part of the Argentine too! Greetings from Hudson, Argentina
Nice to see Paraguayan Spanish mentioned; it rarely is. I'd say it both a simple and difficult variety to learn. Relatively slow tempo with clear pronunciation, but a lot of unique vocabulary, primarily of Guarani origin. There's also a bit of Argentino mixed in there.
Hi! When speaking about "Caribbean spanish" you referred to Cuba and the islands, but the clip you use is very characteristically Colombian, specifically from the coastal city of Cartagena. Even if it's technically still Caribbean, it's quite different! And fun fact! Even amongst the different subregions amongst the regions, you can even hear the difference between cities that are really close, like Barranquilla and Cartagena (1.5h by car) or Barranquilla and Santa Marta (3h by car)!
Puerto Rico is not Spanish and Hispanic and Latino until given back to Spain
@@familyandfriends3519 what? They speak spanish
@@familyandfriends3519
Puerto Ricans speak Spanish
My family is from Cuba and to my ear. The Dominican Republic in the coast of Colombia and Venezuela are similar. Not exact. But closer.
@@henryperez606 a massacred version of Spanish, especially here in Hartford and New York City....... unfortunately
My girlfriend is from Mexico and I'm currently learning Spanish from your program Olly. I do admit it a challenge but I absolutely love the program 😁😁
Wonderful to hear, thanks Keith!
Try also Superholly.
I’ve travelled through most of Latin America, totalling at least a year, and all those accents are indeed amazing. I would like to mention Guatemala, which is famous for its Spanish language schools, especially around Lake Atitlan and in the old city of Antigua. Language learning in beautiful places at bargain prices! As Spanish is often the second language of many of the people there, including the teachers (their native tongues being one of several versions of indigenous Mayan) they tend to speak very clearly and slowly. These schools and Guatemala in general are thus excellent for learning Spanish language. As for Argentina, yes it’s very Italiano, which I loved, and relatively easy to understand. Thanks for your interesting videos.
I lived in Costa Rica for four months, and picked up the dialect, including the unique "rr" sound. It's nice for people who aren't able to produce the rolling "rr".
I'm teaching English in Tenerife now, so I'm slowly learning Canarian Spanish! It's definitely a challenge! I came from Texas, so I was much more used to Mexican varieties. Great video!
Cheers Daniel and enjoy Tenerife!
Canarian spanish in Spain is the most related to the spanish in latin america
@@hectorcaicedo1652 Yep, it is very different from most of the dialects spoken on mainland Spain. I still find myself running into lots of major differences between Canario and the Spanish spoken in Mexico! Maybe there are other dialects in Latin America that I have less experience with that Canarian Spanish is more similar to. I don't meet many Mexican-Canarian people in Tenerife, so that would make sense.
@@danielshuffield3348 well, I said is more related because of their accent. They pronounce the C and Z as we in latin america do. We don't consider the spanish of every country as a dialect because we can understand each other easily. It's like when you talk about american english and brittish english.
As soon as you get involved to our language you will find pretty easy to understand the spanish of every country
Doble negatives are okay in most cases in Spanish
In fact, it's usually incorrect not to use them.
It's ok in all cases
Double negations are the only and correct way in any case and it's not optional.
@@LEGIONARIO1970 Not *any* case.
"No voy al cine" ✓ single negative
"Nunca voy al cine" ✓ single negative
"No voy al cine nunca/No voy nunca al cine" ✓ double negative
"Nunca no voy al cine" × double negative
I’ve been trying to choose between Spanish from three places. Spain, Columbia and Mexico.
Your passion for languages, and, in this case: Spanish, is so beautiful !, cheers bro !!, love from Argentina.
In Panama we always say "chao", because "adiós" is when someone died or you won't see them again ever, "hasta luego" is pretty formal. And I think the most common in the Spanish language are "adiós" and "chao".
In Panama we don't say "janta", we say "Santa". The s is only dropped almost always at the end of a word, after an n and sometimes in the middle of a word.
And I have one more thing to say is that all Caribbean islands are considered in the Caribbean accent but Panamanian Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish and Colombian Spanish are also considered into the Caribbean accents.
The Central American accent is from Costa Rica to Guatemala (including Belize if you count the number of speakers that are almost 50.6% or 60% of the population speaks Spanish, but Belize is almost always excluded).
Yeah I think Panama shouldn't be in the central america group. But even then just generalizing the same accent is completly wrong, you can definitely tell who is from what country and it is quite distinct if you have heard it before. Also who says "s" as "h"? Honduras? I don't know much about their accent.
@@Jj82op I have never heard anyone who says "s" as "h" (and this is coming from someone who watched various Spanish videos on TH-cam to learn and practice listening and reading comprehension in Spanish). Personally I pronounce "s" as "th" and others would pronounce it as "s" itself
Iba a comentar esto justamente, pero ya ví esta mención. Cool, tas clarito 👍🏻
@@Jj82op I mean, you look. Panama does not appear on the Central American group, it appears on the Caribbean. Even Spanish speakers confuse Dominican Spanish with Panamanian Spanish, but obviously, neither Dominicans nor Panamanians confuse their own accents.
No pudiste explicarlo mejor, muy bueno
No Colombian or Venezuelan. People from the Caribbean Coast from Colombia speak with a similar accent to Caribbean Venezuelan people.
The paisa accent is iconic
But I really love the accent from Bogotá. It's wild that there are like 5 different accents only in that city and it has a lot of Chibcha influence as well.
Great video ❤️
Juntos pero no revueltos mi amor
In my opinion Bogota accent would be easy to understand for foreigners because they speak slow and smooth.
Nos negrearon :( There are plenty of interesting things to talk about Venezuelan and Colombian accents as well!
Colombia y Venezuela tienen accentos interesantes. I was waiting to hear what he had to say about them ! Dissapointing :-(
Thanks for this delightful video. I arrived in Chile with solid Central American Spanish. I was amazed and humbled by how difficult it was to understand Chilean Spanish! I would say that the Chilean vernacular is the most distinct. "Cachai", "eri", etc. Fortunately, Chileans are aware that it is challenging for others to understand them, so they speak with non-Chileans in clear "standard" (Latin American) Spanish.
What do others think is the most unique variety of Spanish?
I was very impressed with this video already, but the last seconds got me, I am from Costa Rica and I was waiting to see our accent! thank you Olly
I lived briefly in Chile where my husband is from and the only Spanish I knew was Tex Mex. I learned quickly but can't understand most other dialects!
Over time you will develop a stronger base for spanish, and you will be able to quickly and immediately understand any dialectal differences. This can take many years. Your husband can understand every spanish-speaking dialect basically, since he’s a native speaker.
except for a very thick cuban accent, they are the exception to the norm, my long-term gf is cuban lol.
Chilean here, when we drop letters it's mostly at the end of words, specially ending in ado so:
Alocado => Alocao
And the pronunciation of ch to=> sh it's more of a class thing.
Puede entrar en detalles sobre la connotación social de “ch” y “sh”?
@@andressorin1205 lower class speak droping the sh, it is also associated with people from the countryside
People of higher status speak "correctly", that is with the normal spanish "ch" though sometimes from overcorrection they may say "tch"
Chilean here. It's true we speak a really bad spanish, almost no one can understand our "words". However that's the way Spanish has developed in Chile.
@@MrMattpnk There’s no bad and good language: there’s the norm and the usage, that is supposed to follow the norm. If the Romans had sticked to the norm, we would be speaking Latin instead of Spanish…
En general en Sudamérica el sonido de la D la ignoramos tanto al hablar, yo creo que antes de que acabe el siglo se volverá muda como la H. O mejor dicho, _mu'a_ .
I’m a Panamanian, born and raised, and I swear I’ve never heard anyone from Central America say “janta” for “santa”. What I’ve noticed though, is that the “s” sound might be transformed easily on a “j” when the “s” is next to a “c”. For instance, in Panama you could rarely hear “OScar”, you are more likely to hear “OJcar”; same with “moSca” (wasp), which we pronounce “moJca” as in “mojito”.
I’m salvadorian and can agree. It’s mostly the “S” when it’s next to a vowel and in the middle or end of the word where we’ll pronounce it more of a “j”
Raised*
En Honduras, en el norte del país tipo San Pedro Sula si sustituyen la S por la J.
thank u for speaking about my accent (canarian accent) it's an accent most people tend to forget in videos like this and it made me so proud that you spoke about it😭❤
Sos un capo Ollie, probaste el mate y el dulce de leche? 😄
Acá, en Argentina, cada provincia tiene algún acento característico
Comía dulce de leche sin parar 😅😅
@@storylearningEn las provincias del Noreste (Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Formosa) se habla la variedad guaranítica. Esas eran zonas donde habitaban guaraníes y tobas. Y allí, como en Paraguay, también, además de mate, tereré y comen chipás. 😀
Dulce de leche no manjar si jajajajaj Saludos hermano.
En Chaco, Formosa y Misiones existen pueblos originarios. En Corrientes tenemos al guaraní como lengua oficial alternativa, y hacia adentro de cada provincia existen distintas tonalidades y variaciones del castellano. En cuanto al término Chipa- chipá en guaraní- en la ciudad capital de Corrientes se pronuncia el chipá, el chipasito, llegando a Ituzaingó-Corrientes y Posadas Misiones donde se dice la Chipa, la chipita.
Las expresiones, y los tonos dependerán también con quién se comparta la frontera....
Nuestro país es diverso y maravilloso.
Ej: El argentino dependiendo de la región pronuncia la doble L de la siguiente forma: ll, i, sh, y, shch.
Saludos cordiales.
Eso es hilar muy fino. Debes considerar que los ánglos saben que en cada país latino hay diferentes acentos pero deben clasificar según la mayoría.
La mayoría de la población vive en BsAs y si escuchas un rosarino o algún entrerriano hablan con el mismo acento que un porteño, lo mismo la gente de Usuhaia ( etc)
Vivo en Usa y el acento porteño gusta a todos los latinos y gringos.
The pronunciation "sh" for the digraph "ch" in Chile, while not uncommon, is not part of standard Chilean Spanish. It's tipically associated to poorly educated people and usually frowned upon by purists, so much so that many people avoid the "sh" sound even when pronouncing English words, as an over-correction.
Or like when people eats "suchi" instead of sushi
Right, don't even get me started on the "tchilenos".
As a Chilean, I can confirm
I agree with you, it is funny to hear at Santiago's airport when the speaker system announces: Your atenCHON please. I always believed that thar "ch" sound came from the over-correction from the spanish "sh" of the less educated people in the country that is ported into English just inadvertently.
Cierto, en Chile dicen "chow" en vez de "show".
you dont struggle with don quijote....
you enjoy the greatest masterpiece ever written.
I am just a beginner in spanish (from India, where people are finding even english difficult) After seeing this, I am having a feeling like I have a looooooooong way to go .......................
I grew up speaking Mexican Spanish. The Argentinian accent is most pleasant to my ear.
Y vosotros habláis en sílabas 😂😂😂 no hay flo en vuestro acento
Specially when they say "QUE PELOTUUUUDO QUE SOOOOS" simply beautiful
Both parents are Cuban.
Grew up in Miami, so, i speak pretty much like an, actual island Cuban.
When i went to the Canary islands, i was pleasantly surprised at how similar the accent sounds.
Many, many Canary island families emigrated to Cuba.
Including half of my mom's side of the family.
Thanks for the video!
👍🏼
Cubans are black af
Im from lepe spain and you guys dont look spanish
This was so helpful! I've been looking for a video like this that breaks down accents for ages! Gracias :)
Hi! From Philippines here. Thank you so much for not forgetting our country listed here on your content of Spanish accent. Although, I appreciate that you showed Chavacano as an example, we do have some documental videos or original videos of the Philippine Spanish dialect. This dialect is still existing although critically endangered with almost 4,000 native speakers left. I am part of the new generation who did not grow up learning or speaking Spanish but, ever since I have known about our own Spanish, I have told myself to learn it and now I am doing my best to study and preserve it, I have friends who are descendants of speakers of this dialect and they are helping me learn. To sum it up, the Philippine dialect sound tends to be of mix of Spain and Mexican accent due to the shift in the 1800s of rule, the PH Spanish also uses Vosotros like Spain and Equatoguinean Spanish. Although it varies from speaker to speaker, it also has a lot of Filipinismos just like other spanish dialects. You may check out some documental clips of the Spanish.
Filipinos are NOT hispanic
For Equatorial guinean spanish there's actually This equatorial guinean youtuber who lives in Spain now. She's called Monanga Bueneke and that's her channel name.
She does about Equatorial Guinea culture, language, etc...
And yh, it's quite difficult to find videos on youtube of EG spanish
She does videos ** about
this is so cool!! i didn't know about EG people speaking spanish and now i'm super interested in the country. thanks for sharing this info! I'll be checking her channel asap ❤
Hola! me encanto tu video, muy buena reseña de las variedades del español. Soy Paraguayo y vivo en Inglaterra, estoy orgulloso de mi acento paraguayo aunque sea vai vai igual la gente me entiende
hola Diego, como hiciste para poder vivir en Inglaterra? :')
Soy mexicano pero conocí un grupo de paraguayos en Perú... me llamó muchisimo la atención el acento de los paraguayos, eran de Asunción... tienen una forma "golpeada" de hablar, es decir, muy fuerte, casi enojados... yo pensaba que hablarían como los rioplatenses, pero tuve una excelente sorpresa al oírles. Su acento se parece al de algunas regiones de Sonora México. Saludos!!
In my opinion the most dificult Spanish accent is Puerto Rican, because not only its fast paced but it also has alot of adopted slang words from english and even people would normaly traduced sentences how they are said in english I would say thats due to all the family members that travels back and forth from the states, I currently live in Puerto Rico and live half of my life in the states and traveled to latin america and always like to learn new words and speak to different people because you can learn alot
Just replace the R to L sounds
I liked this video a lot. One thing though, I think you forgot to mention something quite important about Central American Spanish and it's the use of voseo instead of tuteo, which comes with its own set of conjugation. So, we don't say "tú no tienes que preocuparte", we say "vos no tenés que preocuparte". It's also used in parts of South America like Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. I feel very strongly about voseo, I think it's an integral part of our identity as (in my case) Nicaraguans.
Chile no usa vos.
Colombia use vos in some regions of the Country likewise.
no sabía que en américa central hablan de vos y conjugan los verbos como nosotros! qué demás. saludos desde uruguay 🫶
Dominican here! I have to admit our variety of Spanish is one of the hardest (if not the hardest along with Chilean) to understand. Nowadays, most pop culture and music come from the Caribbean, that's why even non-Caribbean Spanish speakers change their accents when singing.
Interesting!!
I remember I heard a song with Enrique Iglesias and he was speaking like a Puerto Rican
There are groups of people in mountainous villages in Eastern Cuba, where I lived, and I tell you they are similar. I have been to the DR and have many friends from there.
Thank you for that comment. It helps me understand Carribean musical artists better.
I have always wondered why I cant understand Chi Chi Peralta when he speaks, but when he sings, I can!
Same with Bob Marley and his way of speaking English - I can understand his lyrics but, when he is just speaking, I find him very hard to understand.
It must be a Carribbean thing - they know their local pronunciation is hard for people from other places to understand, so they use a more common pronunciation to appeal to a wider audience. I am grateful for that as I love Carribean music.
“Most pop culture and music come from the Caribbean.”
What?
Once you master the Andalucian, Dominican, chilean and Yucatec spanish you can say you master Spanish
That’s true! I have a Dominican other mom well she is like a mother when I visit my friend’s house. I can’t understand everything that comes out of her mouth because the way she cuts certain letters and the slang as well😅
Te quiero ver tratando de entender a un villero argento...
@@cynzix el villero es algo como el lunfardo?
@@juannon20 claro, en las villas es donde está mas marcado el lunfardo hoy en día.
@@cynzix tenes razón el lunfardo es como un dialecto y es algo difícil
PLEASE MAKE A PART 2. There are so so many more accents that you could make a whole part 2 and even 3 and not be done. As a native Spanish speaker, very interesting video thank you
I never knew Lucy spoke Spanish! That's amazing! Btw, excellent video, and your pronunciation is so good. Got yourself a new follower!
Increíble como TH-cam me recomienda tu canal siendo yo un hablante nativo de español . Por cierto hablas muy bien el español y tienes un buen acento, sigue así haces muy buenos videos . Saludos desde Cuba
Holla, Olly! Thank you very much for putting my video as an example of Andalusian accent. I appreciate it. Your channel is amazing, btw! Keep the good work! 😄💪
I love that you give us the heads up of what to listen for, helps out for when we hear the clip.
Amazing video! This helps me with homework and giving some context to my English teacher about how different can Spanish be depending the region in Latin America. Thanks a lot! This really made my life easier!
Argentinian speaker here! Awesome video, Spanish is just such a beautiful language and it is so cool to get to see that it variety talks about a great history behind it!
In Chile we would say "de dónde erí'?" (tuteo form) or "de dónde sói?" (voseo form), the "d"s are not really dropped but aspirated, so they are pronounced but with a very slight sound.
I would like to add that "tuteo" and "voseo" means "hablar de 'tu'" o "hablar de 'vos'" and lastly "hablar de 'usted'". In case people don't know.
we also pretty much only pronounce the “s” when the word starts with it, the ones we don’t pronounce it’s as if we replace them with an “h” like in “nos vamos”->”noh vamoh”
Eres is tuteo, soi is voseo, erís is fake voseo, created recently during the comeback of voseo, maybe 30 or 40 years ago.
This video is amazing❤ my husband is trying to learn Spanish. He’s learnt a lot of Honduran mannerism’s first for some reason 😂. And yes, great observation, in a lot of parts of Honduras we change our “S” sound for that of an “h” or a “j”. Sometimes, we also skip the “d” depending of the region. Languages are fascinating ❤❤
You should talk about the paisa accent, definitely one of the most interesting and fun way of speaking Spanish, it’s heavily influenced by Galician and basque Spanish
¡Qué vídeo más interesante, me ha encantado! Soy de Cádiz and we also have a peculiar way of pronouncing the "ch", very characteristic, perhaps similar to what you describe in Chilean Spanish. We also have "seseo" and "ceceo", in my hometown both forms of speech can be found...Love your accent in English, so articulate! Your Spanish sounds pretty impressive too. ¡Me quito el sombrero!
vosotros y el resto de Andalucia, al fin y al cabo todos los acentos de sudamerica vienenn de andalucia
Didn't mention anything about Colombian accant which is very unique as well.
There are multiple Colombian accents. The most unique would be Andean and zona cafetera. The rest have Some minimal representation elsewhere.
At least that's the most I can remember. I'm probably missing something anyhow
I agree
In my personal opinion , colombian accent is very similar to venezuelan accent. Here in Chile, there are a lot of foreigner from those countries, and we can't tell the difference. Aside, Chilean accent is really, very very so unique jajaja.
Fluffy (Gabriel Iglesias) did a bit on how to differentiate Hispanics from each other. He made sure to single out Colombians...because when Colombians speak they sound like they're gonna cry 🤣.
Me (PRican, who's "always on the go"): Buenos días, amigo/a. Bonito el clima, ¿verdad?
Random Colombian dude/chick/other (who, obviously, sounds like he/she/they is gonna cry): Oiga pues, bonito está el día sí. Y usted (all fancy and all, because Colombians are all about fanciness and hyper politeness), doña Williams, ¿qué hubo con usted?
And so on...
@@covfefe_drumpfh Fluffy? That is something that I have to see 😂
there are three ways of pronouncing "ch" in Chile, and they are class markers. "sh" ("working class", kinds), "ch" (standard), and "tsh" (cuico, or upper class)
That's true. But then to make it more confusing you can hear people who otherwise speak "standard" Chilean deliberately using the SH pronunciation for fun. This is pretty common.
Hi, Olly! You mentioned Costa Rica and their peculiar “rr-jj” sound. It’s actually much more widespread. I am from Argentina and pronounce it when at home (otherwise I make an effort and use the standard “rr”. This is because of my mother, who was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in the 1920s. At that time RR’s were pronounced that way in Córdoba city. Nowadays it only heard in the countryside. It’s also used in vast areas of NW Argentina (listen to the famous folk singer Mercedes Sosa, born in Tucumán), but also in the Andes and Mexico.
@Prof. Spudd they use that R in rural andean spanish even in some parts of colombia its hardly rare
Que buen video, aprendí muchas cosas que no tenía ni idea. Saludos desde Argentina!
Brilliant and helpful video! Thanks Olly :D
Excelente tu nivel de Español, sonas como un nativo. Saludos desde Argentina🇦🇷🔥
Hola, una tica por acá
Hubiera sido increíble que pusieras a un tico de verdad hablando, porque se que nuestro acento se conoce más por ese detalle de la "R" pero incluso en un país tan pequeño como Costa Rica hay bastantes acentos diferentes
Me encanta el acento tico.
Además que nos gusta usar el voseo.
Filipinas!!!!! Tienen muchos sonidos al castellano antiguo, sobre todo cuando pronuncian la ll como en alguna regiones en Castilla León y Castilla la Mancha. El castellano es maravilloso con sus diferentes acentos💖👍🏼
Jaja castilya
It would be interesting if you talked about Colombia, since, due the great division between regions (thanks to its mountain chains), includes a variety pf accents: it has its own Caribbean accents (as other countries from Central America and Venezuela), and also several Andean accents, some of them even use the voice “vos” while others focus more on “usted”.
Saludos desde Mexico.. Greetings from Mexico. I love my Mexican Spanish accent.
As a spanish native speaker, I love the way you speak about this language. Thank you dude!
That Costa Rican double r reminds me of Czech ř actually! They sound slightly different to me but kind of similar
I agree.
Costa Rican here, although I don't pronounce the double r as this example, I also don't roll it as is expected. Also the tr has another pronunciation (that I don't use, either). Being as small as it is, my country actually has several dialects.
You should do a video on English accents I want to hear you try an American and Australian accent
Haha I’m so bad with English accents, but I’ll give it a go!
@@storylearning that would be interesting to see
I'm new to the channel so I just saw this video. I lived in Costa Rica back in the 90s. I still speak Spanish fairly well, but I'm out of practice. One of the hardest things for me to learn was using "vos" en vez de "tú". Now I find it hard to use tú. I love that country and miss it terribly!
Such a great video, cannot believe an english native speaker nows this much of the spanish language history
10:32 Dominican here! that´s true, we dominicans cut a lot of words. Something like "¿Para dónde vas?" ends up someting like "¿pandetuvá?", and about the double negative, it´s not weird to hear a triple negative like "no vi a nadie no".
Hi Ollie, I thought you had missed out the Canaries as you moved geographically away from it, but you didn't! I have lived here for 3 years and I am learning Spanish, all be it slowly (poco a poco). And yes they have so many of their own words, calufa, for very hot weather and they love to put ' ita' on the end of words, so a small beer becomes a cañita or a small sandwich a pulgita etc etc. The most important thing about Canarians they are such lovely people and it's the main reason I live here. Enjoying your stories by the way 👍
I completely agree… best place on earth!
Love the channel! Insightful! A Puertorrrrican here! BTW! Doble neg IS correct in Spanish! No me quiero perder nada de este canal!!
Hola Olly. TH-cam me recomendó este video y lo vi por curiosidad de saber como se enseñaba nuestro idioma, muy buen video por cierto. Fue buena decisión ver el video aunque yo sea hispanohablante porque aprendí mucha historia de la cual no tenía idea, y lo más irónico es que me lo enseño un angloparlante. Me re sorprendió el acento de Dustin porque a cualquier argentino le ponés a alguien que hable así y cree que nació en Buenos Aires, yo mismo que nací en Buenos Aires no me puedo creer que sea Estadounidense. Y nada, los que quieran aprender español con vos están en buenas manos, suerte en todo.
Pd: El único punto "débil" que noté en el video es eso que dijiste sobre la doble negación, que si está bien usada y es lo mas normal. Ya te lo dijeron mucho en los comentarios pero era algo que no quise dejar pasar.
this is eeeh, rather simplistic, each spanish speaking country has loads and loads of accents, just in Spain and Colombia alone theres an accent for every region/province and different accents and dialects from city to city
Ni se diga en México, muy escueto el video.
It’s funny how everyone roast Chile’s accent
That is British ignorance.
Its annoying because it's not even true. I've never met a Chilean person who was difficult to understand.
It's true, but I prefer roasting the Spaniards honestly. Imagine pronouncing your "C's" with a "th" sound. Pronounthing. Doesn't square with me. I'll take the heat if I must, pero que le podemos hacer xd
@@Christiangjf That's because we tone down our accent when we speak to non-Chilean Spanish speakers or foreigners and try to sound more like what we've heard in Mexican or Colombian telenovelas. I don't think it would be easy for anyone to understand Chileans at a house party (especially after several beers).
It is quite interesting that I can understand all the video examples of the accent except one-which is the example of the regional languages that Spain has.
You had me at latas! ¡Me encantó! Un abrazo grande de una venezolana
Excelente video, 'mano (hermano, brother).
I'm Mexican born, US raised.
I'm lived most my life in Florida. Which has afforded me the pleasure of being surrounded by all kinds of Latin brothers and sisters.
We're all an arm-length away.
Ok,.maybe not so close, but ubiquitous nevertheless.
From new arrivals to well established (generations).
Call me bias but I love the Mexican accent.
Mine, stateside, is of course not so authentic, a bit washed-down and influenced by others.
Anyway great subject..
And....#superholly is the bee's knees!
Love that Mexa!
Between you and me, I'm jealous of her Mexican accent!
Saludos mexicanos desde Florida?🇲🇽🇺🇲
Interessante as diferenças, aqui no sul do Brasil, temos contato com nossos irmãos Argentinos, é um sotaque maravilhoso. Porém é mais facil nós entendermos o idioma espanhol, que o contrario. Pelo que dizem. Abraços a todos
Vamos Brasil, saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷🇧🇷
I took Spanish in school, lived in the southwestern United States, did plenty of travel and went on my honeymoon to Peru. Currently I work in a homeless shelter in the northern United States. We have a ton of Puerto Ricans come through and guys from other countries. Recently we had a guy from Peru stay with us and it seemed that I could talk best with him and now that you mentioned it, speaking managing in Peru on my honeymoon was probably the easiest experience with Spanish.
I'm Puerto Rican. In my opinion, the most beautiful Spanish accent is the Colombian accent. Yes, it's different from region to region.But over all, it's a very lovely accent.
Just didn’t realise Spanish has so much Arabic in it! I’m often in Andalusia so probably the Spanish I picked up has that accent but I didn’t know it’s so different from the rest of the country. Thanks for a very informative video!
Gracias Susan!
Yh, Spain was colonised by Arabic Moors for about 800 years before 'los reyes católicos " (King Fernando y isabella de castile) married and united Spain and got the Arabs out of Granada.
It's been recorded that Spanish has like 400 Arabic loan words.
I dunno if that number has changed
Some. Not so much bc the moors were expelled and killed out the peninsula.
@@k.5425 I read that Spanish has around 2.000 Arabic loan words!
@@manfredneilmann4305 Oh ok. I wasn't even sure if the number anyway. I remember in my span 101 class it was 40 something something.
Anyway, thanks
The case of panamanian Spanish is very unique too, while our territory is in Central America, we have a lot more in common with caribean Spanish and we borrowed a ton more of English and French words as well. For example "buco" comes from the french word "beacoup" which means "a lot"
exacto, es que somos un menjunje de todo
Nothing unique, Puerto Rico and Mexico have more English words in their Spanish than Panama
Dominican Spanish also has lots of English, French, Taino American and some African words.
@@carlosm.3426 That's not what he meant by unique, just that our geographic position makes us share culture with all adjacent regions, Central, South, and Caribbean.
@@carlosm.3426 Puerto Rican aren't Spanish and Hispanic and Latino until given back to Spain
I’m studying my masters in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 and I have a Dominican Girlfriend now… I have a rough road ahead understanding these dialects but I’m determined to keep practicing my Spanish so that I can speak to her fluently as well as my family here in PR
Your video is amaizing. You really know about Spanish. I speak "castellano rioplatense". A brother of mine heard a group of italians in Spain and it sounded as argentinians for him.
I love Miss Holly!
Hi, I'm from Paraguay and we also have here the Costa Rica's "R" pronunciation here but only the oldest people use it. The youngest people are adopting the English (Am Eng) R sound but only at the end of the words like in cantaR, the middle R like in creído keep the rolling R sound (this variation only happens in the capital city Asunción). There are so many features I can talk about the Paraguayan accent, it can take me hours because we've got lots of variations and slang took from our second language, guaraní.