Students Who Suck At Spanish Accents

A college student from Northern Virginia talks about how there are two types of students in foreign language classes - those who try to prounounce the words properly and those who make no effort. Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson and Steve Oh discuss on TYT University.

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• JayarJackson

[eethry]

ROFL the second way had me laughing my ass off, I had to repeat it, oh man.

[wuhoooh]

I'm Canadian and was in the French Immersion program...I enjoyed learning in French and by the time I graduated I could speak it more or less fluently.

But I was always amazed by the people who I had been in class with for years who went out of their way to avoid using a French accent. To me, they always came across as complete idiots. Especially because it was hugely obvious that they KNEW the proper pronunciations.

[montyhades]

Funny how come she is a perfectionist that barely can speak Spanish and she even says that she talks like the way it suppose to be? Hahahahaha!!! Totally typical girl from the states!!

[missag9]

@michivlz214 Well, mainly because while learning a lenguage you should try your best to learn the proper pronunciation. People talking in a TERRIBLE spanish (or any other lenguage for that matter) on purpose or not even trying to say things right are just disrespectful.

[punk8lives6on]

This girl in my class was trying to say the name "Carolina" and she pronounced in like North Carolina.

[ECFZ82]

@TheSirPrise In Spain we use to say that german isn't a lenguage you can talk but bark so figure it out how german sound to a spaniard ;-) A native english speaker talking in spanish sounds lazy (specially americans) as they don't care too much about pronunciate every syllable and disconcerting too, since they aren't rhytmic wich make very difficult to know if they are telling you or asking you something ;-) If in written spanish we have question marks at the begining ¿¿ is for a reason haha ;-)

[michivlz214]

she sounds like she has an american accent.

[michivlz214]

people from new york dont speak like people from miami or texas

[michivlz214]

@missag9 Hollywood loves sofia vergara for her accent modern family wants her to have more accent by the way everyone has a accent people that speak spanish have different accent there is the mexican,colombian,cuban,puerto rican, ok so why don't americans speak like people from england speak whats the big deal. i love accents

[missag9]

Also, being a native spanish speaker, I think it goes both ways. People should try hard if they're going to use the language because otherwise you're just a jerk. I WANT to kill (for example) Sofía Vergara from modern family every time she talks. You've lived in america for years woman learn some fucking english!

[missag9]

Here's the thing. I'm a native spanish speaker right? So this is what annoys me. The guy was absolutley right about not trying too hard saying BURRITTTTTTTTTOSSSSSS "trying to sound like a native" ok.. first of all, natives don't speak like that, at all, they speak naturally and fluently, speaking like that just makes you sound like you're making fun of a language (AND the culture of people who speak it).

[SadisticSenpai61]

I'm definitely in Jayar and Ana's camp here. Although, I feel it's more like the language itself that I wouldn't be doing justice to if I were to take the lazy route, I don't particularly care about the native speakers and their opinions, just the language. But then I suppose that's why I'm going into Linguistics because I care about that kind of academic stuff.

It also bothered me when the kids in my high school would butcher the accent, but they were also failing, so I felt it was a fair trade