Ok I don't wanna start an argument but I really wanted to receive an honest response. I'm a spanish student and I really do love learning and speaking it but sometimes I wonder everytime hispanic/latino esp. mexicans talk it sounds very very loud when their talking I don't know maybe but I observed that even when they whisper or talk to their neighbors it seems that their fighting like really wild lol even when I watched telemundo and univision. but yea so I asked my Cuban teacher and she wasn't surprised with my question and laughed and she told me because hispanic people they have to pronounce everything by syllable plus the "R" really hard and sometimes the double "RR" so they can understand each other. Is this true? Any other feedbacks before I ask my Panamanian friend.
O yea in addition, EverytimeI hear Argentine news or when I hear them talk on tv they don't sound loud and they don't sound as if their fighting it seems that they speak spanish really soft.
2006-07-08 09:50:22 · 6 answers · asked by xxikickers 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Because Spanish and Hispanics are very loud and passionate people. (sorry to make such a sweeping statement)
2006-07-08 09:53:43 · answer #1 · answered by Kaela 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Native speakers of Spanish probably won't know what you're talking about.
It's hard to tell what about Spanish you are perceiving as "loud". My guess is that you're talking at least in part about the pitch of the speakers' voice. Spanish is usually spoken in a higher pitch than English. If you are trying to speak loud, the pitch of your voice naturally goes up too. So I wonder if you're hearing higher pitch, and thinking that they're trying to speak louder.
It's just a difference between the way that the two languages are spoken. A comparable example is how people who go to Chinatown in San Francisco say that people always sound angry there. It's not that they're angry, but they're speaking Cantonese, which uses the pitch of their voices in a different way. When English speakers hear these pitch changes, they think it means they're angry because that's what it would mean in English. However, they're really just speaking Cantonese.
Other differences between English and Spanish are the rhythm. Spanish syllables seem to be much closer to equal in length than English syllables. (English has some syllables that are very long, and some syllables that are very short.) English speakers who are expecting English-like rhythm will have a harder time following Spanish.
2006-07-08 17:58:30 · answer #2 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is 100% because they are passionate about everything. The loudness is transferred from generation to generation. I currently live in Spain and the neighbors are soooo loud that I can hear them from my living room and bedroom. I hear little kids yelling, "mamma" from up the street! They get so excited about every conversation that they have so it does seem to sound like they're fighting. Once you learn the language well enough, you'll be able to jump in there and "fight" with them. Good luck!
2006-07-08 09:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by spain_105 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do city folks and country folks talk different and at different speeds? My experience is that city people talk faster than people from the south. People from the city are sometimes loud talkers. Country folk tend to be laid back and quiet.
2006-07-08 09:55:45 · answer #4 · answered by Kooties 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my in-laws are mexican and when they speak spanish it seems like they talk very very low to me.
2006-07-08 09:55:03 · answer #5 · answered by Blank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz we're happy/pissed at sumthin
2006-07-08 10:05:28 · answer #6 · answered by dyboy34 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋