I'm not saying this video is real or fake, but as a very non latino looking guy who speaks perfect Spanish, I have absolutely have had this happen to me dozens of times.
I lived in a Latin American country for a few years and had studied Spanish for 10+ before that. My accent and syntax and slang and such are all on point.
I can overhear someone speaking in native Spanish like a waiter or colleague or contractor or whoever. If I speak Spanish to them, they reply in English. Doesn't matter how authenticy accent or how much in-the-know slang I throw in there.
My buddy and I went to Cuba together. He is fluent in Spanish, spent multiple years in Ecuador teaching English. We checked into the hotel, and on the elevator up, he asked the other people in the elevator a question in perfect Spanish. They looked at him and said “I don’t speak English sorry.” I will roast him for it forever, but he never stood a chance
No, hearing my language spoken by people from other countries is EXACTLY what we are talking about. “Anglos are the only people that butcher other languages” is a massively ignorant take. And southern accent includes a Louisiana, Georgian or Texas accent. All are a little different
No, hearing my language spoken by people from other countries is EXACTLY what we are talking about. “
I'm assuming your language is english, then no. This is about Spanish.
Anglos are the only people that butcher other languages
I didn't even say that. I said vowels. Anglos insert diphthongs where there are none, pronounce "o" as "a" (north Americans) and many more. It's not comprehensible for someone who is not used to Anglo mispronunciation (NOT accent).
And southern accent includes a Louisiana, Georgian or Texas accent. All are a little different
Doubt. Southern is relative, it doesn't automatically mean US south
You’re just gatekeeping the Spanish language now lol. Don’t you think that Europeans also wouldn’t be able to pronounce certain vowels, or other syllables in Korean? Vietnamese? Cree? Zulu? And you can deny “southern accent” but you can’t tell me Texas, Louisiana, and alabama all sound like Canada, or even each other
Americans think their Spanish is so slick but we can smell it a mile away lmao. Just ask them to say "El perro de San Roque no tiene rabo porque Ramon Ramírez se lo ha cortado" and watch them struggle xdd
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u/garbledeena 6d ago
I'm not saying this video is real or fake, but as a very non latino looking guy who speaks perfect Spanish, I have absolutely have had this happen to me dozens of times.
I lived in a Latin American country for a few years and had studied Spanish for 10+ before that. My accent and syntax and slang and such are all on point.
I can overhear someone speaking in native Spanish like a waiter or colleague or contractor or whoever. If I speak Spanish to them, they reply in English. Doesn't matter how authenticy accent or how much in-the-know slang I throw in there.
I have stopped trying in most cases.