Videos on dictionary, why do they speak so fast?

Question

Does anyone think the guy who does the vocabulary, along with the other girl, was given some kinds of intervention ? In some videos he speaks so rapidly as if he were talking to a native, and in others, he speaks slowly with enunciation. I could picture the directors telling him " You're talking too (expletive) fast".

The guys who do the videos. (I agree they both talk too fast). - Maria-Russell, Jul 29, 2011

Answer 1

I just checked a couple of the videos...I did not know there were example sentences.

Well, I do not think they could do it any slower, if you think that is fast, good lord

And they pronounce the word normally when they are speaking at normal speed, I can't get the pronunciation as well when they do the super slow version. - Stadt, Jul 29, 2011

Answer 2

Perhaps you are listening too slow?

Answer 3

l'm so sorry to disappoint you, but that's the normal speed of the native Spanish speakers

but thats the point. were not normal native speakers. so it would be nice to hear the words slower. - dacynreynolds, Jul 29, 2011

Answer 4

I wish everybody would speak Spanish as clearly as the Mexican woman (Irma Cantú) does in the video behind the bottom-most link of this page: Understandable spoken Spanish. It would make my Spanish-learning life so much easier...

Wow, great link. I had a really difficult time understanding Silvia Mera. - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 29, 2011

I could understand the woman from Guatemala! Yay! - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 29, 2011

Yes, I like this site a lot. But a bit depressing that I still have problems understanding several of the videos listed here as Beginner - S1r_Wakka, Jul 29, 2011

Like your Silvia, but she's Colombian. I've met a few Colombians and they all speak super fast. Of what I've heard, Mexicans' Spanish is the easiest to understand - S1r_Wakka, Jul 29, 2011

Answer 5

Are you talking about the videos in the dictionary?..... enunciation vs annunciation Enunciation is where you articulate the words distinctly and clearly.

Your conjecture seems very plausible. I like the videos where you can actually set the rate at which the speaker talks. I would imagine that they received feedback that beginners thought that he was speaking too fast to be understood.

Me too!! ;) - territurtle, Jul 29, 2011

I better learn English before I learn Spanish huh : ) - Politically_Correct1, Jul 29, 2011

Answer 6

I hadn't noticed this. The script includes a slow pronunciation of the featured word, and the context sentence is at a natural speaking pace. With the caption below, I have no trouble matching what I hear with the written content, so it helps me to know the goal for how to express myself. Ideally, I admit, it would be nice to have both slow and natural speaking examples.