for Spanish speaking people?

Question

can you tell what country someone is from by hearing them speak...........please explain how they sound
in terms of speed, grammer, and accent

Answer 1

There are some accents that are easier to recognize than others, for example the Mexican, Argentinian and Spanish (Spaniard) accents are very strong and distinctive. Those you can recognize without much training and are easy to imitate. Others may sound similar but use certain different words. When I arrived to the States from Colombia I did not know how to recognize many accents since I had not met that many people from other countries. But in the wonderful melting pot that is the US, especially South Florida, you can be talking and interacting with people from countries that you thought had similar accents, but when hear them at the same time you can notice that they are trully different. For example I though that people from Argetina, Uruguay and Chile had similar accents, and there are some similarities in that they all "sing", but they "sing" in a very different way. The same with Caribbean countries like Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, at the begining they all sounded the same to me, but now I can usually tell them appart.

In my native Colombia there are several regional accents that are very different from each other. The people from Bogota sound similar to the people from San Jose de Costa Rica but sound completely different from the people in the Atlantic coast of Colombia. The "costeños" sound more like the people from Puerto Rico (they are both Caribbean). The "paisas" from the center of Colombia have a totally different accent from the rest of the country, they sound a little bit like Spaniards in the way they pronounce the letter "s", it sounds more like "sh".

You can tell people appart first by the accent and then by the words or expresions they use.

Answer 2

Yeah, for some countries like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia, it is very easy to tell. How you can tell is the same way that you can tell whether a person is from Texas or New York. How they pronounce certain words. The different slangs. And actually the speed really doesnt have a lot to do with it it's mostly grammer and accent.

Answer 3

i could tell when a person is from puerto rico b/c when they finish their sentences the last words drag a bit like if they are trying to sing..and they say the r differently..they also use different words..even though alot of spanish speaking countries use different words..like 5 pple from spanish countries have a different word for a type of hair cut...i think dominicans sound mad alot of the time..maybe thats just because everyone in my family is always mad..i dunno..lol..different countries have different slang also..and its all about the accents.

Answer 4

yes, you can tell...it is hard to explain in writing because it depends a lot on intonation, sometimes on pronunciation of certain consonants such as the "s" (like Spanish people who pronounce it like the English sound /θ/), the "y" or the "ll" which the Argentinian pronounce as /∫/, or other speakers like Cubans to tend to omit the final "s" in words and substitute it for a "j"...finally the last clue would be vocabulary...for example a Mexican person would call a backpack "mochila" while some of us call it "salveque" just like British people would call it "rugsack"...

Answer 5

We Hispanics have different accents and slang's, we already know what country someone is coming from when we hear them speaking, that easy. Saludos hermanos latinos.

Answer 6

yes, I can tell, but it's hard to explain, I can tell if someone is from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, Argentina, Honduras, etc.....I'm Mexican, and I can even tell what state ( in Mexico) they're from by the way they talk.

Answer 7

the word, sencillo

in argentina they say: sen-cee-sho

but it's: sen-see-yo for everybody else