Many have mentioned the difficulty of understanding Dominican Spanish. I usually read at least one of the Dominican newspapers daily and today I found a good example of colloquial everyday speech. The recent rise of stray bullets in certain neighborhoods of Sto. Domingo has many of its residents preoccupied and over the past few weeks young children have been wounded by stray bullets. Below you will find an excerpt from a worried resident.
'Balaceras espantan a la gente de Capotillo'
Estas escenas han provocado que do?a Juana viva con miedo. "A mi me ha dao miedo de estar aqu?; se arman muchos tiros a veces. Eso es lo que me tiene a m? m? as?; que quiero sal? de aqu? a v? si toy mejor en otro sitio donde yo pueda vivir m? tranquila. Yo soy una se?ora mayor, ya yo tengo 70 a?os, y no quiera vivir as?".
Colloquial speech is a property of every language. A dialect by definition is: 1. a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary). 2. a variety of language whose identity is fixed by a factor other than geography (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary).
The excerpt above is a classic example of 'a dialect' in Spanish because the pronunciation of the speaker is outside of the norm of the Spanish language.
http://www.hoy.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=48518
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'Balaceras espantan a la gente de Capotillo'
Estas escenas han provocado que do?a Juana viva con miedo. "A mi me ha dao miedo de estar aqu?; se arman muchos tiros a veces. Eso es lo que me tiene a m? m? as?; que quiero sal? de aqu? a v? si toy mejor en otro sitio donde yo pueda vivir m? tranquila. Yo soy una se?ora mayor, ya yo tengo 70 a?os, y no quiera vivir as?".
Colloquial speech is a property of every language. A dialect by definition is: 1. a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary). 2. a variety of language whose identity is fixed by a factor other than geography (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary).
The excerpt above is a classic example of 'a dialect' in Spanish because the pronunciation of the speaker is outside of the norm of the Spanish language.
http://www.hoy.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=48518
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LDG.
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