Differences in Spanish :)
What are the different dialects of each Spanish speaking country?
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El catalán es TAN diferente que no comprendo nada de lo que oigo. Para mí es tan incomprensibe como el vascongado. La mayor parte de los dialectos de España comprendo bastante bien salvo el gallego. He leído artículos y libros escritos por Gallegos, pero el entenerlos cuando hablan me es imposible. Más fácil comprender a un Puertorriqueño or a un Cubano,o Talvez un Marciano o klingono. LOL. Nota: yo no puse las letras mayúsculas el las nacionalidades, es el sitio Spanishdict que tiene la culpa..
Well, the Spanish-speaking world doesn't have that much variety. You will find that some areas have different terms for the same word. For example, in Argentina, the word "bean" is poroto. In Mexico, the word used is frijol. In Spain, they say judía.
Some areas have distinct grammar. For example, Spain uses vosotros, which is the informal plural you form. It is conjugated áis/éis/ís.
In Argentina and Uruguay, they use the voseo form. This is the informal singular you. No word in the form stem-changes. For example, they say Vos tenés, Vos querés, Vos volvés.
Chile has a very distinct dialect, but I don't know much about it, so I can't tell you what it consists of.
Well, the Spanish-speaking world doesn't have that much variety.
Have a conversation with someone from Chile, then Columbia, if that's not 'variety' enough for you, talk with someone from the Dominican Republic, then Peru. If you're still not convinced there's not much variety, have a conversation with a Cuban, then a Mexican from Oaxaca, Mexico. and there's more. But, just to be clear, I'm only talking about differences in accents, not the different words that people in different countries use to express the same thing. To me, it's a lot of variety, but that's only because of my personal experience, your mileage may vary ![]()
I don't want to dissapoint you but only in Spain you can feel a great difference between regions. For example for the people of the north of Spain, sometimes is difficult to understand the people from my region (Andalucia), In each region the people has different accents (Galicia, Pais Vasco, Cataluña, Andalucia, Madrid,...)
If this happens in Spain, in other spanish-speaker countries the differences are greater..
It is better heard than articulated. Watch a movie from Cuba, México or Dominican Republic and compare any of them to a film from Spain. You will hear an immediate difference.
Ikr! Like whats the whole point of being corrected when you miss things