Why do Spanish Speaking...
Why do Spanish speaking natives talk so fast? Its like they have a fast forward button.
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I'd assume it's simply because they're more familiar with the language I'm sure native English speakers do the same, we just don't notice because we are already so accustomed to the natural rhythm of it.
One of the (sort of) advantages of being a therapist is that depressed Spanish speaking clients speak slowly. I can almost understand them. 
Excuse me, but I find that native-English speakers talk faster than we do. Of course, that is my humble opinion. Who knows? Perhaps someone has made a research and has an objective answer.
Anyway, I remember that I once heard on a TV documentary that people used to talk very slowly to babys allowing them to learn the language. Unfortunately nobody does that with grown people.
I wonder the same thing! As a native English speaker I tend to "speed talk" at times. I guess it's just a matter of being familiar with the language
There are times when people talk to me in english and i just won't understand, and i heard every last word they said but my brain just refuses to understand what they said. Or i will simply stutter in english, but when i speak in spanish, lets just say it comes out naturally. I can understand my friends when they speak to me in spanish even if they are talking very fast. As a mexican, i can tell you that we make sentences as short as possible. For example, instead of saying "qué estás haciendo", we might say "qué haciendo."
I don't think they talk faster. It's just that Spanish takes more words to say the same thing in English. If you ever look at a book in English and the same book in Spanish - the Spanish book has smaller writing and more words to the page.
They don't.
Yes we do
Nunca ha escuchado hablan una pareja de Wisconsinites que están afuera en invierno?
You've never listened to a couple Wisconsinites talk outside in the winter? (Feel free to correct my clumsy Spanish.)
I think the reason Spanish sounds fast is that it is a fairly choppy language. I think back to the day when I knew no spanish at all and I thought exactly the same thing. Since I have been speaking it for a few years, I can get the same amount of information out as I can in English (unless I'm making an effort to speak very quickly).
Might be better to say native-Spanish speakers. When people are with their friends, acquaintances or other English speakers, they don´t talk slowly and naturally neither do Spanish speakers. If it appears fast now, then with gradual exposure to Spanish speakers, it will get easier. And although you might not believe it, it´s probably harder for a non-native speaker to understand spoken English than spoken Spanish.
Why do Spanish speaking natives talk so fast?
They don't.
