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> I have many Spanish colleagues, and I have a hard time understanding them in general. As a Spaniard I'm curious, why's this? I think I'm pretty well underst
by kaoD 2y ago
> I have many Spanish colleagues, and I have a hard time understanding them in general.
As a Spaniard I'm curious, why's this?
I think I'm pretty well understood (worked remote for US and NL for years) but maybe just in case I can make life easier for my interlocutors.
- haspok 2y agoIt may not help that there are more of them, and of course, among themselves they speak Spanish. One of them then turns to me and asks something switching to English, he keeps his speech mostly unchanged (speed, enunciation, pronounciation), except he is putting supposedly English words one after the other...
- tgv 2y agoThe Spanish accent in English is --simply put-- atrocious. I've met many Spaniards, and only a few had a clear, understandable accent. Even academics with British or US post-docs may not speak clearly. Nor flight-attendants, for that matter (juecom odi flai tu ásterda). I only know a few French, but I had a colleague who (although not of the French nationality) was born and raised there, and apparently was taught English literature through reading Les Hauts de Hurlevent. Yes, Wuthering Heights, in French.