Why do Spanish people talk so fast?

Question

So my friend larata she was intruding me to her friends that r Spanish she was talking as the speed of light and so they took me to her class 4 her kids to learn Spanish that's were i learned how to speak and so learned it and now i spáeak fast

forget the speed concept, it is the flow of the words together...¡the more one experiences the flow the more the understanding! - HowardO, Feb 17, 2012

Hi Maggie, please use correct English grammar and spelling as we have many people here who are learning English and need good examples from native speakers like you. - Paralee, Feb 20, 2012

Answer 1

It is a moving story.

rofl!!! - patch, Feb 17, 2012

I agree. I am moved. - MLucie, Feb 17, 2012

;) - territurtle, Feb 17, 2012

Answer 2

This is a link to a review (in Time magazine) about how fast speakers of different language speak. If you thought that Spanish was fast, you were not mistaken; they came in second, just 2/100 slower than Japanese, the fastest of the languages studied in the original French study. Why Some Languages Sound So Fast

You know, I always suspected the Japanese were talking really fast...I watched a few animes...and inevitably there's this some young girl who gets excited/mad...and, man, how the high-pitched syllables flow!!! - webdunce, Feb 17, 2012

The rest of the time they are having flashbacks or warning people not to underestimate them...and killing each other...but somehow no one ever actually dies...that's pretty much the plot of every anime, I think. - webdunce, Feb 17, 2012

Interesting article. I studied Vietnamese for awhile. One interesting thing about is that most words actually are one syllable. Seriously. They've got a few foreign words that aren't and some compound words of their own, but generally one syllable per... - webdunce, Feb 17, 2012

...word, which, I imagine is why they used it as the benchmark language. - webdunce, Feb 17, 2012

Wow, I neve knew that, Web. That's very interesting... - sanlee, Feb 17, 2012

Answer 3

Welcome to the forum. I think it would be better if you slowed down a little in your writing. If you would proofread, I think that you would see what I mean.

Answer 4

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