What country do you think speaks the most easy and clear to understand spanish?

Question

argentina? mexico? spain? chile, peru? puerto rico? colombia?
venezuela? ....... others

Answer 1

Spanish like English has accents and regionalist words. Australian english, British english and American english are not the same. The same thing happens with Spanish. Every country has its own accent.
Of course, the caribbean zone is very similar :Cuba,Puerto Rico,Northern Colombia, Venzuela, Panama and Dominican Republic.

The central american zone is similar: Mexico,Guatemala,Honduras,El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

The andes region has similarities: Ecuador, Southern Colombia,

The southern andes: Bolivia,Peru, Chile

The patagonia region : Argentina, Uruguay,

there are some regions that have a very particular accent among their region like Bogota in Colombia, Bolivia and Paraguay

Answer 2

I am a Spanish teacher.

Where do you live and what kind of Spanish speakers are you expecting to encounter? If you live in the UK and you plan on vacationing in Spain, that is a pretty obvious choice.

If you live in the US and you want to learn Spanish to help you at work, Mexico would be an excellent choice.

If you aren't particular, then Southern Spain, Costa Rica or Venezuela are generally considered to have an easy to understand accent, and the most neutral vocabulary. However, anywhere you go there will be some locally used grammar and vocabulary that will be different from the international "norm," but any language school would coach you on that. However, Venezuela isn't a real friendly place for folks from the US at the moment.

Unless you are wanting to hook up with a salsa musician, or are planning on buying an island in the Carribean, I would avoid Cuba, PR, and the Dominican Republic because they tend to speak really fast (even for Spanish speakers), their accents are the most difficult (they drop a lot of letters out of their pronunciation), and they have an unusually high amount of vocabulary that is specific to that area.

I would avoid Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela and Mexico City for safety/political reasons.

Argentina also has a pretty substantial amount of adopted Italian and English vocab. However, the climate, demographics, and culture of Argentina and Chile make them good places for people who are really uncomfortable with "weird" food or things that are radically different from what they are used to.

I don't know enough about the other countries to offer any advice. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

There's no way to answer that correctly. Each country you mentioned has their own way of speaking Spanish. I'm from Puerto Rico and speak Spanish great, but when I went to Mexico and Spain, it was so different! The accents and even some words are completely different!

Answer 4

Of course Spain has the best Spanish because that is where the language originated. Like everywhere else it varies from region to region even in Spain. Classically the Castillian Spanish or "Castellano" (from Castil, Spain) is considered the clearest and best. Believe it or not the people in the interior region of Colombia (Bogota) speak Castellano. I used to live on the coast of Colombia (Cartegena) and the Spanish there was so different and much faster and jumbled than in Bogota. The "Costenos" could not understand Castellano, so although Spanish was not my native language, I could translate for the people from the two regions. I love listening to people speaking Spanish and try to tell where they are from.

Answer 5

Each country has their own version of Spanish. If you go to Spain where the language originated it actually sounds quite different and a Spaniard could tell right off the bat if you learned Spanish from a western country. Just a note. It sounds different, and there is no way to tell what a "clear" Spanish would sound like, unless you mean the original Spanish in Spain.

Answer 6

Like everybody has said, Spanish speaking countries have different accents, slang and versions of the language. When TV series or movies need to be dubbed in Spanish, they use voice actors from Central Mexico that have a more universal easy to understand accent. Soap operas and other shows are also dubbed by Venezuelans.

Answer 7

The different Spanish speaking coutries have their own accents and some words are also unique in that certain country, but if i were to choose a country that has the most neutral accent, then i would probably choose Spain, but they have destroyed the grammar a little bit.

good luck.

Answer 8

Well, I know in most Spanish classes a combination of Spanish dialects from Spain in Mexico are taught, so I suppose they're the most useful and widely known.

Answer 9

Definitely Mexico and Colombia.... very clear Spanish accents!

Answer 10

Because I learned Dominican Spanish, that's easiest for me, and other Caribbean Spanish that is similar, like Cuban or Puerto Rican. More difficult, but only because of my own experience, would be Castilian or Chilean, for example, since they have very different accents and regionalisms. I work with several Mexican-born families now, so I'm learning their accents and own particular words for things.