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Columbian dialects?
First off, jeeze has it been a while since I've been here! Time sure flies.
Anyway, I was watching an ESPN special the other day on the Columbian National Fútbol club and it's rise and subsequent fall, as it was tied into the narco-terrorism culture and, more specifically, financial influence from Pedro Escobar. More to the point; much of the show consisted of interviews, most of which were Columbians and in Spanish with English sub-titles. But I couldn't make out anything they were saying . . . not that I can typically comprehend Spanish as spoken by a fluent speaker that well anyway. But with the subtitles, I'd see words that I should know, but didn't hear spoken anywhere. While I was watching, I though that Columbia must have their own language that's related to Spanish but different; but after watching the show and checking the 'net, I see that the official language is Spanish, but that there's some 75 different dialects spoken. Are these just that different from Mexican-Spanish (which is what was taught mostly in school)? Or must I have just missed that much of it (it wasn't exactly a happy subject, and a lot of the interviewees were speaking sorta softly . . . and it's already hard to hear over all the fans we have running since it's the middle of summer and very hot in our house). |
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They had some amazing talent on their National team. It's just sad the way things turned out. |
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Well, sportspeople don't speak "standard Spanish".
![]() That doesn't have much to do with dialects really, but with their "abuse" of colloquial words together with their regional accents. (Moral: never try to understand what a soccer player says.) ![]() I think you can actually understand some words if you watch the interviews several times, until you get used to their accent. ![]()
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I'm sure there were a lot of idioms and colliquialisms used though. It's also hard to differentiate words, as when trying to listen to a native speaker, everything flows into everything else (which is part of the beauty of the language). I'll have to get some CD's or something to practice listening to spoken Spanish. |
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![]() ![]() The cartel people could have been speaking with many regionalisms, but government officials should be easier to understand... unless they have very local posts. ![]()
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I'll have to look and see if they re-air the episode. It doesn't help that I'm half-deaf (literally). It was a very interesting documentary though.
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I guess it will be mostly a matter of practice.
Have fun and good luck with that. ![]()
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Improve your Colombian (or, at least, Paisa) pronunciation by reading the Tola y Maruja column in elespectador.com
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