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must be Chilean language... that thing is not spanish

js2 5y ago
I recently watched a Turkish movie and I guess it's the first time I've listened to Turkish for an extended period. That language is a chameleon.
gerdesj 5y ago
Closer to my home: my mum, Devonion, could make herself nearly unintelligible to me by speaking as she did as a young girl. That's my mum, not a random stranger from another country 8) I'm no expert but I do know that the French spoken in Quebec is rather different than that spoken in France, which of course has many varieties of "French". There's also whatever is spoken in Brittany (Breton?) which I think is closer to Welsh/Cornish/Irish/Scottish ie Brythonic languages than English or French. English is a right old mish mash of loosely coupled dialects, patois, pidgins and whatever linguists call the other varieties and vagaries. I gather that the easiest variety of English to understand for non native speakers, in general is the Dublin accent. I know it isn't brummie because I remember seeing big Tex (he wore a stetson on his 10 gallon head) on a Norwegian cruise out of Miami heckling a comic on stage. I ended up translating. I kept it simple and told Tex that he was from Birmingham, England because trying to explain the "Black Country" was likely to be tricky. I can just about tell the difference between a brummie and a yam yam accent. The next act was a geordie and I gave up and suggested to Tex that we hit the bar. Now, what have you got against Chilean?
- FirstLvR 5y ago
  Nothing special, am Chilean and I can barely understand some people here
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  - gerdesj 5y ago
    (edit) my previous response wasn't the best. You sound unhappy. I would say: disenchanted. What's wrong?
  - huachimingo 5y ago
    Andalucians (and Canarians) speak like us too. Maybe they were the ones who invaded us long time ago.
tomc1985 5y ago
Hah, I like to joke with my Chilean friend that they drop syllables like they were going out of style. Chileñol almost sounds like Portugese to my untrained ear. One time I was at some random food court at a bus depot in Talca and wanted to order a dish called Chorrillana. The guy behind the counter had no idea what I was asking for when I tried to pronounce it phonetically... but then I remembered... so I asked for "Chorana" and he was like "ooooooo no problemo!"

js2 5y ago

I recently watched a Turkish movie and I guess it's the first time I've listened to Turkish for an extended period. That language is a chameleon.

gerdesj 5y ago

Closer to my home: my mum, Devonion, could make herself nearly unintelligible to me by speaking as she did as a young girl. That's my mum, not a random stranger from another country 8) I'm no expert but I do know that the French spoken in Quebec is rather different than that spoken in France, which of course has many varieties of "French". There's also whatever is spoken in Brittany (Breton?) which I think is closer to Welsh/Cornish/Irish/Scottish ie Brythonic languages than English or French. English is a right old mish mash of loosely coupled dialects, patois, pidgins and whatever linguists call the other varieties and vagaries. I gather that the easiest variety of English to understand for non native speakers, in general is the Dublin accent. I know it isn't brummie because I remember seeing big Tex (he wore a stetson on his 10 gallon head) on a Norwegian cruise out of Miami heckling a comic on stage. I ended up translating. I kept it simple and told Tex that he was from Birmingham, England because trying to explain the "Black Country" was likely to be tricky. I can just about tell the difference between a brummie and a yam yam accent. The next act was a geordie and I gave up and suggested to Tex that we hit the bar. Now, what have you got against Chilean?

FirstLvR 5y ago
Nothing special, am Chilean and I can barely understand some people here
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- gerdesj 5y ago
  (edit) my previous response wasn't the best. You sound unhappy. I would say: disenchanted. What's wrong?
- huachimingo 5y ago
  Andalucians (and Canarians) speak like us too. Maybe they were the ones who invaded us long time ago.

tomc1985 5y ago

Hah, I like to joke with my Chilean friend that they drop syllables like they were going out of style. Chileñol almost sounds like Portugese to my untrained ear. One time I was at some random food court at a bus depot in Talca and wanted to order a dish called Chorrillana. The guy behind the counter had no idea what I was asking for when I tried to pronounce it phonetically... but then I remembered... so I asked for "Chorana" and he was like "ooooooo no problemo!"