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What about all the exta syllables.......
e-stop
Do you e-speak e-Spanish?

A fax is just "un fa".
pub sounds more like pup or pop.

I find the lack on consonants at the end of the word can be quite annoying and confusing, like "fla-". What is that? flat? flap? flan? flack? flab? flag? What are you trying to say?????:confused:

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Oh yes, you should use tomar when speaking to south Americans (although coger is used mainly in Argentina as slang for "screwing", it's not the only country where this happens I believe).

I do find it hard to criticise the Spanish for their pronunciation of English, when a lot of Brits can't even manage the correct pronunciation of simple words like plaza or San Miguel (of course there are difficult words like Valladolid or azahar which will stump most of us). There again I have a northern accent, so when I say "glass" or "ask" without correcting myself I often get pulled up by southerners..

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Ah yes but as not all Spanish is the same, neither is Arg.!! Andaluz is similar to the Buenos Aires dialect IIRC.

ref coger... yes, yes we know:lol:
Northern English... we have one northerner in our Spanish class & poor old Ana the teacher has great fun when we do attempt to teach her the odd word or two & his is at variance with the rest of us;)

Guy - yes I can imagine. Fiona's a piece of p*ss.... como la princesa en Shrek always does it AND raises a smile in the same instant:)

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Fiona must be an easy one

I get called Linda:D


we went to see the most recent Harry Potter a while back - Hermione was pronounced air-mee-own :rofl:

I would have thought they wouldn't have had trouble with that one:confused:

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Nobody at work can pronounce my first name properly and it's only got 4 letters so they use my middle name, twice today the general manager couldn't remember either name so called me American :confused:

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After about 3/4 months in Spain I decided to "change" my name as nobody could pronounce it correctly. Furthermore, if I was speaking to someone who couldn't see me (over the phone) they would assume that I was a man as my name is similar-ish to a male Spanish name. That used to annoy the hell out of me when they called me Sr.!!

So now I have two names - one in England, and a different one here. It makes my life much easier!

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:rofl: I'm sat here now trying to guess your name now, I've ruled out rumpelstiltskin:rofl: I'm guessing Lois.....don't worry I'm not going to ask you for your real name.:)

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No no no no no :)

I have a friend who is from near Buenos Aires and now works on the CDS. He says it took him a year to work out what the Andalucians were saying.

I find his Argentian much easier than Andaluz to understand. If Argentinian is like any Spanish accent, then possibly that of the Canaries. They both say "j" rather than "y" for the double ll.

The Argentinians dont lisp. He used to live in "Ibiza" which he pronounxed "Eebeescha". He had to repeat it 5 times until I understood what he meant!

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Could you be Louise or Joan??

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the correct way in Cokney is OI-BEEF-A:p

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One of my mates is Argentine, and he told me some funny stories when he arrived to Spain. He got confused with "¿Qué pasa?" a usual greeting in Spain, but in Argentine it means "what's wrong?" (as it can in Iberian Spanish) so Spanish people were saying that to him, and was saying "nada! nada! I'm OK!"

Another one is "currar" the slang word for work, in Argentine it means to nick/steal something. So Spanish people were saying to him, ¿vas a currar..etc? and he was saying NO NO!! :)