Need your ears and language skills please
 

Hi,

Hope everybody is OK and I’m not going on your nerves with my questions. I’ve found this websites offering stories so I could practice my listening skills, but I don’t know if it is Castilian Spanish or Latin American. Don’t want to learn the wrong accent and nobody understands me.

May I ask you to take a few minutes if you've time, listen to the stories and let me know please.

https://snappyspanish.com/beginner-spanish-stories/

https://albalearning.com/ejercicios/...ra-100930.html

Spanish Listening #4

Thanks a lot in advance.

Christine

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Snappy Spanish sounds very Latin American. The other 2 sound more Spain Spanish!

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Just listened to a couple of secs of the snappy one and the accent is South American

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A quick indication i have found while learning Spanish is the pronunciation for ch, ci or z words are pronounced “th” for example for five (cinco) South Amerincan is pronounced sinko where European is pronounced thinko

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Number two sounds like well-educated Spanish people I normally hear speaking.

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For example in the third link they say "con-ver-sa-thion".

PS thanks for the links:)

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Thanks a lot for your support.

Sometimes I think I'm quite fussy with the pronunciations :unsure:

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There is a history behind the pronunciation of c or z as th. I cant remember the specifics, but it was due to a king many years ago, who had a lisp. So as not to make him feel uncomfortable, people in the upper echolons copied his pronunciation

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here’s an explanation on it …

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/...origin_of_the/

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It's a myth :)

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Sounds like a myth I agree. A bit like the one that says English words like Knee arose because German printers charged per letter so they added spurious letters to increase price- hence the abundance of letter E at the end of English words!!! Its hokem !@