10 Difficult Spanish Accents You WON’T Understand
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🇪🇸 From rolled R’s to incredibly fast speech, Spanish spices things up all around the globe. Are you up for an accent challenge? This one’s sure to surprise you!
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Eu estudei espanhol por três anos e sempre achei o sotaque da argentina um dos mais difíceis.
¡Gran video! Una cosa que a menudo no menciona que el español guineoecuatoriano utiliza tanto “vosotros” como la pronunciación z y c suave de España.
I find the Equatorial Guinea accent fascinating, I’d describe it as hearing a Nigerian speak English, the intonation is identical.
As a Dominican I can tell you from experience that I have always thought that it is one of the most altered Spanish dialects in the world. But after watching your video I think we are not the only ones.
As a Puerto Rican I understood all of them and got 9 out of 10. The only one I missed was Equatorial Guinea.
Same here, I only mistook the Colombian accent for the Mexican one 🤣
Same, tho speaker of Chilean Spanish…
Bueno obviamente como hablante nativo del español, le entiendo a toda esta gente, me imagino que a alguien que esté aprendiendo debe ser difícil y más con el léxico que utilizan los Chilenos o los Mexicanos, muchas palabras son bien difíciles de identificar su significado real
Lo mismo digo, no tuve problemas para reconocerlos, aunque en los primeros apenas llegué a reconocer palabras sueltas. Hablaban ridículamente rápido y sólo entendí las palabras largas, pero intuí su país
I guessed all of them correctly as I’m a native Spanish speaker from Ecuador. The hardest ones to understand for me are:
1. Andalusian
2. Chilean
3. Cuban
4. Argentinian
I can understand the others just fine. Equatorial Guinean people actually speak quite clearly save for those archaic words they have.
I’m Italian and Argentinian is quite understandable for me, well when I started learning Spanish I met tons of Argentinians so I think I’m kinda used to. Sometimes the Vos in speech trips me especially if I come from a conversation using Tu.
I find coastal Ecuadorean accent to be quite hard tbh. Ustedes siempre se comen las palabras ahah
My favorite accents are Cuban and Argentinian with Chilean being the hardest to understand. The EG accent just sounded like asecond langage accent to me. Spanish didn’t seem like their first language.
Proud to make it to the top 2 😂🇩🇴 I want to say that just like Puerto Rico, Dominican Spanish is heavily influenced by Taino heritage. We also use the “i” or “L”, instead of the R, or an exaggerated roll of the R, depending on the region!
Hahaha 😂 this cracked me up because I didn’t expect the last accent to be the Cuban because I’m Cuban from the orient part of the Island… There the accent is even more difficult… And I’m bilingual and as it happens with English that sometimes is so hard to get now I can actually imagine how challenging could be for natives English speakers tu understand Spanish… I must admit I’d rather be born as an English speaker instead of Spanish
Adviné correctamente a los 4 de los 10 acentos: El Argentino, El Chileno, El Domincano, y El Colombiano.
I guessed 4 out of the 10 accents right: The Argentine, the Chilean, the Dominican, and the Colombian.
Como hablante nativo de español pienso que de lejos el castellano de CHILE es el más difícil de entender. El resto son bastante accesibles porque tienen dicción similar y no se cortan las palabras, y uno se acostumbra en poco tiempo.
Otros acentos muy dificiles de entender (que no se mencionan) son los de las planicies en tierras altas que se hablan dentro de la boca con una especie de seseo, acentos en los que por ejemplo se reemplazan las ´i´ por ´e´ por la influencia de lenguas nativas.
El gaditano cerrado es también bastante difícil de entender, en mi opinión.
llevo casi dos anos aprendiendo espanol y he hablado con muchas hispanohablantes y todavia no puedo entender muchas personas jaja pero mis acentos favoritos de las personas que he hablado con son los acentos de Lima, Peru / Merida, Venezuela / y un persona de la región autónoma de la costa caribe en Nicaragua (me olvide la cuidad xd)
Pretty good video. I’m Venezuelan and was shocker when one of my Spanish students show me a video which made me realize we speak faster than the most of Hispanic America countries, only beaten by Cubanians, Dominicans and Puertorriquians. In other hand, all of my Venezuelan friends who lives in other countries usually tell me about the tremendous differences in names and even verbs among countries, it’s just like we would speak another language!… ¡Saludos! 🇻🇪
Amazing video as always Olly! It was fun to watch some varieties of my native language that even I find quite difficult to understand (especially Chilean and Dominican who really live up to their reputation)! Although I would like to point something out. When you were talking about the Andalusian accent you mentioned that it’s not common to refer to someone using “the” before their names, but in Spanish it actually is! At least in my country (Mexico). It’s actually so common that it could almost be considered a cliché, especially when someone talks using heavy Mexican slang. Some examples come to mind like “ya le dije al Matías que le cayera (I already told [the] Matías to come over)” or “Mañana la Jenny va a pasar por mí al Aeropuerto (tomorrow [the] Jenny is going to pick me up from the Airport)”. It’s a very informal and even somewhat “vulgar” way of speaking and referring to someone but some people do speak like that! And I actually never thought it was something out of the ordinary until you pointed it out because, if you think about it, it is kinda weird lol.
Como hablante nativo de español, pude reconocerlos todos antes de que revelaras el país 😬, pero siento que esas cosas que resaltas de un dialecto también las encuentro en el mío 🙈. En Colombia también Voseamos, usamos palabras como balde, decimos cachete, acortamos el “pues” pero decimos “pos” (no solo po), nos comemos la D en los participios (ado, ido) y en algunos adjetivos para los verbos ser/estar (aquellos terminados en ado/ada, ido/ida) y en algunas regiones si tenemos el sonido /ʃ/.
I understood all the accents, although I didn’t guess most of the places they came from. Great video. I’d say you could have included Paraguayan Spanish because Paraguayans use lots of words and phrases from the indigenous language Guaraní, and THAT can be really difficult to understand. The accent is lovely, too.
Soy brasileño. Los accentos de as islas caribeñas son Los más dificiles de comprender. Ellos hablan muy rápido.