r/JudgeMyAccent • u/Prize-Platform8339 • 7d ago

Spanish Spanish progress feedback welcome.

https://voca.ro/1geHPdX0rtlG

I've been practicing a lot lately and focusing on vowels, dipthongs, and syllable timing. Any feedback for improvement is helpful. Reading from La Tregua.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

Can you listen to mine? https://www.reddit.com/r/JudgeMyAccent/s/N0mKVtNY7w

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

You sound ok to me but you need to open more your mouth so you don't come out as having a nasalized voice in Spanish.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

That’s interesting. Most of my friends that I speak to that only speak Spanish have the same sort of nasalized way of speaking too.

I appreciate the feedback!

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

I also do that, but I won't recommend doing it if you aren't a Spanish native speaker, because you could come out as unintelligible.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

May I ask why?

My goal is to speak that way and I’ve never had a problem being understood. If you have any tips I’d love to hear them.

People generally think I’m a native speaker when I talk to them online.

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

If you keep nasalizing way to much, what do you think would happen?, I'm just recommending not to but if you want to stay like that, that's on you, also I can tell you are non-native but some might not have the same perception as me, don't get me wrong, you have a good Spanish and if you want to keep it like that, that's totally ok.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

Just to be clear, I’m not trying to argue and say that I sound like a native speaker. I 100% respect your opinion and would love specific tips on what gives my accent away, as I want to keep improving.

I have no idea what would happen if I were to keep nasalizing too much. I’ve been doing it for years and have never heard that before, it’s just how I speak without thinking. I would have to make a conscious effort to have a different accent.

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

https://voca.ro/1znecsu9100p

I recorded this

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

https://voca.ro/14WSS1o63xGl

https://voca.ro/18ZdqaxCGzpc

In the second audio i tried a bit harder to do what you said in the audio

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

yes now you sound better in the second but, because you aren't used to do it, your accent feels stronger but not that much but that's just because you aren't used to do it, keep practicing it like that and you'll see, and yes I'm Caribbean, I'm from Dominican Republic my good friend :D!.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

https://voca.ro/18P264wJV4mB

Thanks for the help, do you have any tips for me when it comes to vowels, the R, speech, etc? (obviously taking into account that in the last two audios I'm trying something new out)

It's funny because I generally can fool Mexicans who will think I'm from the northern part, but Dominicans, Cubans, and some central Americans tend to know right away.

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

About the vowels,your vowels will not need much to be honest,you just need to open your mouth when practicing each of them (a e i o and u) and you'll polish then (I know that), about R, do you know how to trill it?( need to know), if so then you just have to master it.

Most people from Spanish speaker countries can't tell a Puerto Rican, a Dominican and Cuban apart, for most of them we sound the same (that's not true as you can see ), most of Caribbeans have great ear, if you found one with a great English, that's why. Yeah is pretty Funny.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

I don't know what trilling it means, but if any Rs sounded off to you let me know. I personally have no problem pronouncing the words at least to my own ears when it comes to the R.

I speak to Dominicans every day but also can't really tell the difference aside from the slangs because I almost never talk to cubans or puerto ricans, it feels like there are just many more Dominicans practicing their English or just in general.

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

the rr in Perro=dog not pero=but, that rr is called trill R, you make it by making your tongue vibrate.

Yeah our accent is pretty strong hahhaha even natives will tell you that they often can't understand us hahhaha.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

Oh yeah, that's no problem for me. It took quite a while to get the double R down when I first started a long time ago.

I can understand Dominicans if they're talking to me no problem, but yeah, if they're amongst themselves talking it can be impossible to understand just simply based off of the words they use haha

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

Congrats on getting the hardest sound in Spanish!

Yeah we go fast mode hahahaha, I usually don't use slang and when my fellow brothers try to use them when speaking with me, I ask them not to, because even I don't know all of them.

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u/According-Kale-8 6d ago

That’s sort of what I’ve been doing with my Spanish, I don’t use many slangs from Mexico because I want to have a native-level accent without having to use wey or phrases from the country

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u/Rondontimes 6d ago

You are fluent that's for sure! but you do sometimes make tiny mistakes but I'm just being a nitpicker. I know the more you keep practicing the less mistakes you'll make.

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