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Question: why do Spanish speakers sound like they are talking so fast?
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:17 am
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:17 am
Does it sound like we speak English fast to people who don’t speak English?
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Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:18 am to Cycledude
Bc you don't understand wtf we are saying, and we talk fast
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:19 am to Cycledude
I always wondered if people that speak other languages and dont understand english think that we talk fast?
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:20 am to Cycledude
They're just doing it to frick with you.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:21 am to Cycledude
Why does Lexus use a woman with an English accent during their commercials when it’s a Japanese company?
This post was edited on 1/9/20 at 11:25 am
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:22 am to Cycledude
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:22 am to LSUcdro
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I always wondered if people that speak other languages and dont understand english think that we talk fast?
Have you ever heard someone that's learning English try to speak it? They're slow as hell. I'm sure they think that we speak fast.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:23 am to Cycledude
Why do I have to press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish?
In Mexico do you have to press 1 for Spanish and 2 for English?
In Mexico do you have to press 1 for Spanish and 2 for English?
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:23 am to Cycledude
In my experience, people from Spanish speaking countries think we speak very fast.
It's all relative. A language you don't understand is going to sound unfamiliar.
It's all relative. A language you don't understand is going to sound unfamiliar.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:25 am to Cycledude
I've read Ricardo Montalban went on The Tonight Show and demonstrated what English sounds like to people who don't speak it. Apparently it was a flat, nasal monotone, like a dog barking or donkey braying.
In the movie The Great Caruso the opera legend disaprages English as being "spoken with the teeth", because of all the "th" sounds (the, thanks)
In the movie The Great Caruso the opera legend disaprages English as being "spoken with the teeth", because of all the "th" sounds (the, thanks)
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:27 am to Cycledude
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why do Spanish speakers sound like they are talking so fast?
Because they are talking fast.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:28 am to Hangover Haven
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Why does Lexus use a a woman with an English accent during their commercials when it’s a Japanese company
Focus groups subliminally think that an English accent sounds more dignified and elegant so that’s what they use when targeting a demographic that wants to be upper class.
Same reason Sam Elliot sounding guys are always on truck commercials. Have an English guy wax poetic about an F250 would be strange.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:32 am to Cycledude
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Does it sound like we speak English fast to people who don’t speak English?
yes
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:34 am to Cycledude
Because Spanish utilizes a lot more suffixes and prefixes to communicate concepts that English uses multiple words. As a result, less words are used and it can be hard to differentiate where one word ends and another begins because of the repeated sounds of the suffixes. Spanish isn’t faster, just more grammatically “efficient” for lack of a better word.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:35 am to Purple Spoon
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Have an English guy wax poetic about an F250 would be strange.
It would. But now I kinda want to hear it.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:36 am to Cycledude
I've read Ricardo Montalban went on The Tonight Show and demonstrated what English sounds like to people who don't speak it. Apparently it was a flat, nasal monotone, like a dog barking or donkey braying. I would have like to seen this.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:37 am to Cycledude
I swear I've had sex that didn't last as long as some baws trying to spit out a sentence at a fourth-grade level.
Get on with it.
Get on with it.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:38 am to Purple Spoon
quote:the gekko ad was changed from an upper class voice to an ozzy osbourne voice
Focus groups subliminally think that an English accent sounds more dignified and elegant so that’s what they use when targeting a demographic that wants to be upper class.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:39 am to Hangover Haven
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Why does Lexus use a woman with an English accent during their commercials when it’s a Japanese company?
Because Americans don't want to listen to Tokyo Rose.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 11:39 am to Cycledude
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why do Spanish speakers sound like they are talking so fast?
It's not so much that they speak Spanish quickly. It's the fact that your brain processes Spanish slowly.
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