Prettiest Spanish accent

[Kyle]

as a central american regular, my vote would be for costa rica and panama which indeed contains a lot of columbians. i would also put in a vote for honduras, nicaragua and el salvador.
people generally ask me where did you learn spanish, the DR ? i wonder if i was just insulted or complimented. :ermm:

 

[Chip]

people generally ask me where did you learn spanish, the DR ?

I submit that any accent is better than a gringo one.

 

[jrhartley]

dont dominicans find a gringo accent attractive, like when foreigner speaks English (antonio banderas etc)

maybe not lol

 

[Chip]

I guess I should say as long as the gringo accent is not too strong. My own accent bothers me at times. Any accent that is too strong isn't pretty.

 

[jrhartley]

penelope cruz, sophia loren, gerard depardieu, marlene dietrich errrm catherine zeta jones lol....possibly

 

[AlterEgo]

dont dominicans find a gringo accent attractive, like when foreigner speaks English (antonio banderas etc)

Antonio Bandaras could read me the paginas amarillas and I'd be a happy camper :cheeky:

AE

 

[Chip]

Funny story: I recently had a meeting with a couple of engineers with Odebrecht, one from Brazil and the other from Bolivia and brought a friend along (from Ecuador) and after the meeting, which was half in English and half in Spanish, I asked him how was my Spanish expecting him to correct my grammatical errors. Instead he says I talked with a heavy cibae?o campo accent and that it sounded somewhat crude.

 

[Kyle]

I submit that any accent is better than a gringo one.

well kind of Chip. one thing about gringo accents is that most gringos (myself included) go out of our way to speak clearly and precisely. often times it confuses the average dominican. and a good gringo accent can be appealing to the opposite sex.

 

[Chip]

and a good gringo accent can be appealing to the opposite sex.

I don't think any hispanics find the gringo accent appealing, male or female. I think some just associate it with money.

 

[jrhartley]

so why do I find people speaking english with a foreign accent appealing I wonder- its a shame it doesnt work both ways lol

 

[Celt202]

well kind of Chip. one thing about gringo accents is that most gringos (myself included) go out of our way to speak clearly and precisely. often times it confuses the average dominican. and a good gringo accent can be appealing to the opposite sex.

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[Chip]

I think Nuria Piera has a pretty accent and I'm not sure if I could recognize where she is from if I didn't know already. I wonder what Spanish speakers from other countries think of her accent.

 

[GEF girl]

Colombian accent is definately the prettiest, LOL.. especially el valluno..

 

[Major448]

The Colombian Spanish accent is definitely having an impact (see link below).

Colombian Spanish accent | Call centers

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[bachata]

I think Nuria Piera has a pretty accent and I'm not sure if I could recognize where she is from if I didn't know already. I wonder what Spanish speakers from other countries think of her accent.

De nuevo!!! acento llano es la forma en que aprenden a hablar los comunicadores profecionales...

JJ

 

[TOOBER_SDQ]

The Spanish of El Salvador is very easy on the ears also.

 

[Celt202]

Some Venezuelan speakers speak at a machine gun pace.

 

[Chip]

As mentioned earlier after doing some serious soul searching about my Spanish after being told I have a campo accent (tinged with the gringo one no doubt) I've been experimenting using my best imitation of a Spaniard. The positives of doing this are many. One, there are plenty of examples on tv and I also have a friend from Valencia I can listen to as well. Two, while I like the Dominican accent from Cibao I have a difficult time imitating it because it sounds too "normal" to me whereas the Castellian accent sounds different and is thus easier to imitate. Three, Dominicans seem to respect a well spoken and alliterated Spanish more so than the campo variety.

I have been received relatively positively with the locals too. As Dominicans and latinos in general are way to polite with regard to critiquing a foreigners Spanish I have learned another way to infer their opinion of my Spanish; when they inevitably ask me where I'm from after a significant conversation I always ask them to guess. I grade myself an F if they guess I'm a gringo, a D if they guess I'm Italian and an A if they say I'm from a Spanish speaking country.

While speaking with as little an accent really isn't the most important focus of speaking Spanish (it should be spoken correctly of course) this topic fascinates me and it could be that I'm interested in accents in general because even in English I have been good at imitating various American accents.

 

[colombianLisa]

I'm here in Ft Lauderdale airport on layover and had a chance to listen to a couple speak in Spanish for about a half an hour and the lady had the clearest and prettiest accent I can remember hearing in a long time. I thought she might be from Spain so I went and ask just to confirm my intuition. It turns out they were from Medellin, Colombia. I suppose I could have guessed they were Colombian because they did seem to speak slower than Spaniards but the tendency of the lady to almost use a soft "sh" sound for the "s's" as some Spaniards do threw me off. Now I know how I want to speak in my next life, jeje. BTW, they were super nice as well.

I grew up listening to and speaking with the Medellin (paisa) accent, it actually surprises me when I see people who think it sounds sexy or sweet LOL, really, I think it's kind of strong and amusing. However, Colombians generally speak clearly unless they are from the coast. The clearest, best spanish in the Americas is that spoken in bogota and the vicinity as it is very formal, paused and borderline archaic... su merced!

 

[colombianLisa]

I have a bit of a hard time understanding certain dominicans that speak very fast, I have to ask them to repeat themselves and I have a pretty good ear, but wow, it sounds like ratatatatatatatata.