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Speaking of accents (I was just reading the rest of yesterday's thread), do you native Spanish speakers find a particular foreign accent in your language "ugly."
I was just wondering because to me, to hear Spanish spoken with a heavily American accent sounds really bad. Does it to you all? Or is there some other accent that is more annoying? Thanks, Marsopa |
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I know what you mean Marsopa. I think a heavy American accent when speaking Spanish sounds bad, but that's probably because that's the very accent I have tried so hard to erase from my own speech. On the other hand, I once knew a French woman who was in a Spanish class with me and her French accent while speaking Spanish was quite intriguing. An American accent when speaking Spanish may be interesting to, say, a German.
I actually don't mind a bad accent in any language, but what I can't stand is if the person doesn't care and has absolutely no desire to improve their accent.
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Spanish spoken with a heavy American accent sounds unbelievably sweet...
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I agree the point is not to erase completely your accent because it sounds ugly (it doesn't sounds ugly!), but to improve it to make yourself more fluent on the language. By the way, I've got a French aunt who's been living in Spain for maybe 40 years who hasn't lost her French accent. It sounds OK to me. If someday she spoke to me in a clear and unpolluted Spanish I will think my aunt has been taken by an alien.
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I must say Elaina's version of Alfonso was not far away from mine's. My Alfonso was with a waistcoat/vest and smoking a pipe and sitting in his library, but with a computer by his side. Stiff intelectuals and internet usually don't go side by side
Tu sosia...... no has acertado nada , pero te quiero igual. I must say im more agressive in the net, because its my alter-ego (my sosia) My Elaina was a Salma Hayek type (in Ugly Betty) but not so agressive. "morena, bajita, guapa, que sabe reirse de si mismo y de los demás, y que consigue lo que quiere) saludos |
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Thanks fot the corrections Poli.
"Quieto, inteligente, modesto." Thanks a lot, but I'm too shy Like the germans says "Stille wasser sind tief" |
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like we say in English, "still waters run deep"
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Como pronto podréis comprobar en nuestro diccionario de modismos.
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