How does Spanish sound to you?

[eduhum]

I'm always curious. You see, when I hear chinese, and as I don;t speak it, I tend to hear something like this:
tounsyuoutiloutisoiy... Well kinda... Ok?

Or people that don't speak English tend to hear like, gwarhlhorlmawhrlarol...Kinda too.

So as I say I've always wondered, how does Spanish (the true spanish from Spain, not Mexican, South American aberrant impurities) sound like to you when you hear it?

I leave here a video in Spanish which is meant to be funny (and is) called 'How to be a "Macho", a true male'.

If you watch it, especially only the first part, I think you can find here not only how Spanish can phonetically sound like, but also the way of being of a true spanish ethnic, so to speak (every ethnicity, country, has a different culture)


Link to video.

 

[Borachio]

What a hoot! Latinos often make me smile. They often appear to have some anger management issues. But this is probably just a cultural thing.

So what's he saying in English? "All of God is insane"? Which, grammatically, doesn't make a lot of sense.

Anyway. What does Spanish sound like to me? I suppose it sounds like Spanish as much as anything. Which isn't a great deal of help, I know.

But I have mistaken Spanish people, talking in English, for Eastern Europeans, 3 or 4 times before now. Is that any help?

 

[Leoreth]

I guess the stereotype is that it is full of guttural fricatives [x] and voiceless dental fricatives [θ].

 

[Phrossack]

It ends almost every word with an "a", "o", or "e", which gets tiresome. I think Spanish sounds kind of... well, I don't know, but I don't much care for it. It still beats French.

 

[Zelig]

I dunno, I never hear Spanish.

 

[Kennigit]

Barthelona

 

[Goodfella]

I speak Spanish well enough that I can't describe the way it sounds like I can with other languages.
Arabic: hashna al aq bar al baq
German: ich bin ein nein itch nin
French: bon jon le vou jon le voule
I know, it's immature, but that's pretty much what I hear.

 

[strijder20]

To be honest, as an awful incoherent rambling. But then again, I have an irrational prejudice against Spain for fighting the Netherlands 400 years ago.

 

[Goodfella]

So as I say I've always wondered, how does Spanish (the true spanish from Spain, not Mexican, South American aberrant impurities) sound like to you when you hear it?

Where I live, everyone who speaks Spanish is from either Puerto Rico, El Salvador, or Bolivia, so I'm not sure how different the "true" Spanish is.

 

[Neomega]

Spanish sounds a lot like American to me, just different words. But the inflections and cadence seem pretty similar.

But Asian languages I noticed they have a kind of cadence that talks quickly for a bit, and then there is a pause, and you'll here a melodic type "ohhhh" or "ahhhhh" and then the conversation goes again, and many times they seem to draw out the last vowel of a sentence. .

 

[Joecoolyo]

Barthelona

 

[Midleiro F.]

It's very similar to Portuguese; probably because of that, a lot of people here in Brazil seem to find it silly or funny.

 

[The_J]

I guess you need to find a more accurate representation of Spanish.
The guy in the vid sounds like an angry Russian to me.

 

[mangxema]

Inefficient. As in, it always seems to take Spanish speakers more syllables than I think they ought to, which is probably why it sound so fast to Americans.

 

[LamaGT]

It sounds like a language I don't understand except maybe a few words

 

[Camikaze]

It sounds foreign.

 

[Arwon]

These days it sounds like something I can almost but not quite follow so all I can pick out is the occasional phrase.

Inefficient. As in, it always seems to take Spanish speakers more syllables than I think they ought to, which is probably why it sound so fast to Americans.

The syllables are generally simpler though. No consonant clusters, fewer vowel sounds (5 plus dipthongs). It's a pretty simple language phonetically.

 

[Lillefix]

Inefficient. As in, it always seems to take Spanish speakers more syllables than I think they ought to, which is probably why it sound so fast to Americans.

Someone on this forums said it was because they had fewer vowels than Germanic speakers. Could be true.

 

[Akka]

Spanish sounds to me like people adding "o" and "a" everywhere in their speech.

 

[W|M]

Mexican Spanish: Soy un macho!
Argentinian Spanish: Soyunmacho!
Iberian Spanish: Llalalalalalalalalala