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Yeah you sound like a "heritage speaker". People with a stronger PR accent are working class, actually. Back home, a "PR accent" to us is from the barrio. I speak "posh" Puerto Rican Spanish
Yeah you sound like a "heritage speaker". People with a stronger PR accent are working class, actually. Back home, a "PR accent" to us is from the barrio. I speak "posh" Puerto Rican Spanish
That makes a lot of sense. There's people in the barrios of Venezuela that pronounce the Ls for Rs as well.
Actually hearing it again, you have a VERY faint PR accent lol
yeah I can't hide it lol. My parents are middle class and shunned the way they speak in the barrio. So my accent is middle class Puerto Rican, much closer to Canary Islands Spanish
It's very subtle, but I can pick up on it. It would probably be a lot harder for a non-American to notice it.
Even local Americans don't notice it here unless they REALLY pay attention. My accent mostly falls on the long e sound. People say the most obvious giveaway for me is when I say Florida and California
Even local Americans don't notice it here unless they REALLY pay attention. My accent mostly falls on the long e sound. People say the most obvious giveaway for me is when I say Florida and California
You must have deleted the last clip, but if I remember correctly, you said the word Latino and that was the biggest giveaway.
As far as American accents go, I'm amazed at the sheer amount of differences in the UK. Whereas in the US, you can count the accents with one hand. Australia probably takes the cake, it's either bogan or non-bogan there.
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Originally Posted by snj90
You must have deleted the last clip, but if I remember correctly, you said the word Latino and that was the biggest giveaway.
Yeah I can believe it. Again the i in Latino is a long e sound, and I could never change that.
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