the Spanish of Andalucia , Cuba , el Caribe etc
After studying Spanish for awhile and speaking with some teachers on Italki I realized that it is impossible to ever be bilingual in Spanish except if you are born in the country and have bilingual parents in the home.
Just about the time you think you speak some Spanish and understand some ..you meet the Spanish from Andalucia and the Carribean where the letters S and D and R are not pronounced and they speak super fast and even omit some words in the sentence. My instructors and teachers on Italki generally agree with me and suggest staying with standard , neutral type of Spanish.
But doing that I still cannot understand the people speaking around me , So what good is it.
I lived in America all most all my life but I was born in Germany. We spoke a type of German called nieder Deutch. Low German To this day I cannot read the written German language " Hock Deutch "
Germans who met me know exactly where my parents are from because of my German words.
I think Spanish is the same problem.....I do not know where to go from this point in my Spanish learning.
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I don't see why you are frustrated. I am barely understand the English from Scottish. Is that a problem? not at all. Just focus in one accent and keep practicing. I think Mexican or Peruvian are easy to understand
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Yes, of course. I think that this is something that happens in all languajes. You learn a standard languaje but then you have to deal with real life, which is full of different accents, and your brain is just not able to work so fast as the other person speaks. Yes, accent in Andalusia is really difficult, but what about some Brittish or American accents? Practice and more practice for everyone :)
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I feel you. This was also my problem. When an Argentine was speaking to me, I barely recognised any words and he said that I should further improve my spanish. For me, the best solution is to choose a dialect or a variety of that language and to concentrate on it. It seems to me that the spanish of Mexicans, Colombians, and Spaniards (north of Andalucia) are close to the spanish we are studying although speaking and listening to other native speakers should help you learn their variety of spanish.
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Hola Dennis:
Ese problema que comentas es común en todos los idiomas, pero no debes desanimarte. Los lenguajes no son ciencias exactas como las matemáticas o la física. Aunque dediques todo el tiempo del mundo a estudiar español y consigas dominar las reglas gramaticales y conocer mucho vocabulario, siempre vas a encontrar hablantes a los que no entiendas. Sobre todo si ellos no se esfuerzan por hacerse entender. Hay muchos acentos diferentes, muchas expresiones locales, etc.
Pero no debes abandonar. Aprender otro idioma es un proceso largo y costoso. It is a journey and you are the driver; sometimes you'll get lost; sometimes you'll want to give up and come back to the shelter of your mother tongue; but at the end of the day you will discover that learning a second language is a neverending trip where there is no destination. "there is no path, you make the path as you go".
;-)
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exactly, i trying to learn spanish for several years already, but totally no improvment, the spanish people speak really fast as machine gun.
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