Dialects and Regional Differences in Spanish

In this video I talk about standard Spanish and the notion of dialects in Spanish. I also provide a number of examples of regional variations across dialects.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• dialects
• pronunciation
• Spain
• language
• class
• verb
• tenses
• conjugation

[juanmaargentina]

I couldn't be enjoying your videos more than I'm right now...you are speaking about my own language which such a broad knowledge on the topic... its just inspiring!

[languagenow]

@juanmaargentina Thanks, Juan! As far as the tips you asked for... It just takes a long time of dedicated study, as you know... I read a lot, listened to (and sang to) a lot of music, Brazilian and Latina. Plus I spoke a lot with native speakers. So there's no secret shortcut, it just takes plenty of time and dedication. Some people have extra apptitude for learning languages, as I can see you do. Best of luck!

[Bloodmoon17]

@languagenow Iappreciate your postings; they are very well organised. However, one small thing that I noticed is the example for the Spanish pronunciation of "Z" and "C (before I or E)". The word "This" contains a much more vibrated sound that, in many languages, is considered very different from the "th" that we may use in words such as "thistle", "thatch" or "wrath", which is the actual sound of the "Z" and "C". Characters to represent these sounds are (Þ, þ-Thorn)-Thistle and (Ð, ð-Eth)-This.

[languagenow]

@Bloodmoon17 Good point, one that a few others have also brought o my attention. You're all right :) It's a mistake. I need to add an annotation to that part of the video to correct it! Thanks! You can also see the difference between the voiced and unvoiced sounds if you oppose "that" and "thanks" right?

[RehtseNelluc]

Wow! This was amazing! I'm a Spanish teacher and I'm definitely going to use parts of this video to explain "voceo", "seseo" and "yeísmo" to my students. Thank you very much for making such a useful video.

[languagenow]

@RehtseNelluc a propósito, qué opinas sobre lo poco que pude comentar sobre el dialecto puertorriqueÑo?

[hugstablebear]

Everybody and their dog teaches Spanish on the internet and I've sampled many of them but your erudition and the clearly evident thought and planning that go into your videos continue to blow me away. Yes, you make the occasional spelling error and have the occasional brain fart, but then so do we all; and these in no way detract from their worth. I've learned things from your videos I've never seen or hear of elsewhere, even in textbooks. I studied for a year at uni but my prof; not even close!

[savemyplaylist]

distinción? Where I come from you go to San Francisco if you want to speak like that.

[datboulang2011]

i speak with a Cuban/ American spanish accent



[TwistedGalaxy]

As a mexican I've always found the argentinian/uruguayian accent to be the most distinct from the rest of spanish spoken forms (but still perfectly understandable)

[vigo894]

I speak Spanish with a northern Mexican dialect.

[terlynn4]

Wow!! Thanks so much. I've always enjoyed listening to different dialects of Spanish and trying to guess where they're from. I've never heard anyone describe so many of the differences like this before, so this is great! :)

[TheMovieLinker]

You did a great job explaining the differences between the the types of Spanish spoken in the Spanish-speaking world.

I want to learn Portuguese, but I don't know where/how to start :S

[audijam]

@lebonpower There's no such thing as a "neutral accent"... but the one I can say is closer to the utopic "neutral" accent, is simply the "educated" Spanish of any country, if you see, the most educated the speaker is, the most "homogenous" they sound, regardless of nationality.