El hilo de acentos

[chileno]

¡Claro! Calcetín con Rombos Man es parte del programa 31 Minutos... :D
Son muy simpáticos.

No estaba seguro de si conocías el programa. :)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Lo descubrí en la TV abierta hace poco y luego vi que hay un montón de episodios en YT. :D
(De niña no me habría perdido la hora de verlo por nada del mundo) :)

[chileno]

Lo descubrí en la TV abierta hace poco y luego vi que hay un montón de episodios en YT. :D
(De niña no me habría perdido la hora de verlo por nada del mundo) :)

Seguro.

Hmmm de niña ah?

:rolleyes:

[CrOtALiTo]

Seguro.

Hmmm de niña ah?

:rolleyes:

Your insinuation is very funny.:)

[Broken Spanish]

Where I come from some young people talk like this:o:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSNK-9v7_JI&feature=related
These video clips are from a British comedy series.
Estos videos son de Britanico programa de humor (Is this sentence correct? I’m trying my best to construct my own Spanish sentences:thinking:)

And in my town and others near me people talk like this! It’s the Essex dialect, bit different to a standard London one but is very similar to Cockney.
This one is an Essex dialect:
Esté es Essex dialecto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxT5wD_UOmQ&feature=related



...And this one is Cockney dialect:
...Y esté es Cockney dialecto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-KAxVNSti8&feature=related


We shouldn’t get accent and dialect mixed up though. An accent is how someone sounds from a different country like a Scottish accent and English accent. A dialect is the regional differences of word pronunciation and use from region to region, like Essex dialect, and a Cornish dialect...just thought I would add that.

[ajak568]

What kind of accent is the first British comedy clip?

The difference between 'accent' and 'dialect' that I have learned is actually a bit different. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have learned that an 'accents' are mutually intelligible ways of pronouncing the same language. For instance, I have a southern US accent, but it would be no sweat for me to have a conversation in English with a Californian, a New Yorker, a New Zealander, etc. On the other hand, 'dialects' are mutually UNintelligible ways of speaking the same written language. For example, a Mandarin-Chinese speaker would not be able to have a spoken conversation with a Cantonese speaker, but would be able to communicate perfectly well in the written language, because the written Chinese language remains the same, regardless of dialect.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

This is a long post. I've hidden the videos, so loading the page won't be a problem for slower connections. (Let me suggest not to quote the whole message)

I have mentioned some times that there is no such thing as "Latin American" Spanish, and maybe there is no such thing as a "national accent" in many countries. But there is a standard Spanish where we understand each other.
As an example, I have selected some interviews with high-level politicians from many Spanish speaking countries.
I chose politicians because regardless of what they say, they will use this standard language. And I chose interviews because they speak relaxedly and naturally, so their accents are appreciated.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Argentina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CygLtXUoTzw

Michelle Bachelet - Chile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUXPRMD9-Dw

José Mujica - Uruguay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRO7fz_V-lk

Fernando Lugo - Paraguay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeFDYWQEpOw

Rafael Correa - Ecuador
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJVcGSLGC4

Alberto Fujimori - Perú
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2joPEIWCCfM

Evo Morales (interviewed by a Spaniard) - Bolivia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-nmv2p3UBw

Hugo Chávez (interviewed by a Mexican) - Venezuela
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myctuoWdVDE

Álvaro Uribe - Colombia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkrLcAklc30

Óscar Arias - Costa Rica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WL_xF-LG4

Manuel Zelaya - Honduras
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn7uowudKBQ

Mauricio Funes - El Salvador
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46X6W7lbz28

Daniel Ortega - Nicaragua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCM0nsym0cE

Álvaro Colom - Guatemala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtKKqznDHv8

Felipe Calderón - México
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8lyvx0ldAs

Leonel Fernández (interviewed by a Colombian) - República Dominicana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkacUb5J05g

Luis Fortuño - Puerto Rico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpmW9naWZLU


And...The accent of this man is completely different from what you've heard before:

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo* - Guinea Ecuatorial (Equatorial Guinea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLjiBvUt5c

*The link for Equatorial Guinea accent was no longer valid, so I found this one. Listen to the interviewer; the interviewed man is speaking Spanish with his French accent.

[JPablo]

Very interesting... (although time consuming!!!)
(Mujica, Uruguay is maybe the most entertaining one!)

I include here some "genuine" Spanish Castilian accent, with our "hero" Adolfo Suárez... who is the architect of the Democracy in Spain...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=509Zmc_w55g&feature=related

Curiosamente, el Presidente de Guinea Ecuatorial, tiene un acento bastante peninsular en la mayor parte de su discurso... aunque tiene unas vacilaciones entre la "z" y la "s" ('th' and 's' sounds) que no estoy seguro de que sigan una pauta concreta...

Me falta escuchar a unos cuantos de los otros presidentes... pero me parece que falta un acento cubano...
Lo que me recuerda a un chiste de Mao visitando a Castro... que pongo en el hilo correspondiente...

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Pablo: Consumidor de tiempo, sí... y no veas buscar las entrevistas. :lol:

Y cierto, me faltaron al menos Cuba y Panamá.

Así que Panamá:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrPNwyiPBM



Las entrevistas con Fidel Castro tienen muy mal sonido, pero se subsanará la deficiencia del acento gracias a la televisión de Miami:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6PAJXdTqU

[JPablo]

¡Muy interesante!

Now, checking something else I found an English (Georgian accent) which sounds interesting to me... (there are some words on the ad I cannot totally get... but overall one can follow it pretty well.

http://www.donzellajamesforsenate.com/First-Day-Ready.html

I take the voting for this already occurred... so no vested interest on my part to promote this political leader... (although I personally like the lady and the kids talking...)