No!
Even within the islands there are different accents...country/city..etc.
Puerto Ricans have trouble pronouncing their "r" and "rr" they don't roll the tongue. Instead they make a throaty sound like if you are about to spit up.
Cubans speak fast with a nasal tone.
Dominicans drop off a lot of word endings and chop up their speech ...like "vo pa ya" for "me voy para alla"...lol
Also country Dominicans often put a "y" or "i" sound for "l"...like "el soi" instead of "el sol".
People say Dominicans speak the fastest, but its because most of the words are being chopped up.
The patterns of speech on all these islands reflect their West African roots where you find the same type of cadence in speech.
Of course with each example there are exceptions...the educated will speak clear spanish like any other.
2006-06-20 02:27:42
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answered by DaddyBoy 4
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It's pretty much how Querious put it. Puerto Ricans tend to do the chopping thing too. And Dominicans have a lilting accent to their spanish. Even though the base language is spanish, hispanics sometimes find other hispanics from other countries difficult to understand because of their accents and slang.
2006-06-20 06:51:26
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answered by Anonymous
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yes and no- they can for the most part be understood, but just like english speakers differ in England, Austrailia, America....and even from Boston to Texas to the Mid-west the same is true for Spanish..there are different accents equivelant to Northen and Sothern English accents..there are different dialects, and words used by one group but not another. So, at times, they speak the same, and at times they do not.
2006-06-20 09:21:01
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answered by rebecca 2
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They speak different forms of Spanish. They can understand one another of course, but they use different slangy words and their accents are different. For an English-speaker, compare it to the difference between American English and Australian English. If you´re American you can (usually) understand exactly what an Aussie says, but you recognize their accent and a few of the words they use might seem odd to you.
2006-06-20 02:36:21
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answered by Anonymous
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some general words, but there are lots of different ways they pronounce em and they even have different slangs. no peole from different countries, though they are from the samr region speak the same type of the main language. look at the u.s. people up north speak differently than people in the south. same thing.
2006-06-20 20:53:42
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answered by ? 5
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every latin culture has a different dialect for certain words but yes basically it's all the same .
2006-06-20 02:18:31
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answered by gia666@verizon.net 2
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they speak Spanish, it is just they have different accent and dialects
2006-06-20 05:51:28
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answered by ??nN 1
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It is very similar, but different dialects for every latin country.
2006-06-20 02:19:16
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answered by Anonymous
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