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I just watched a video with 30 Spanish accents, and I could barely tell most of them apart. The clearest ones were definitely Spain, Mexico, and Colombia. The ones I found hardest to understand were Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic. They either sounded really fast or kind of choppy. The Venezuelan girl sounded like she was almost pronouncing every syllable separately instead of speaking normally. It's so strange to me how little they seem to connect sounds together.
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>>222168695
Which is weird because Portuguese is so easy to tell apart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D1HBGo6QXg
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>>222168695
yes that's pretty accurate
never heard a Dominican speak though so no idea here
Spaniards also can speak incomprehensible depending on the region, but the fancy Madrid accent is pretty easy on the ears
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>>222168762
Anyone who speaks Portuguese can understand Spanish. I could even follow most of what the Chileans and Argentinians were saying, and I understood Mexican and European Spanish pretty much perfectly.
>>222168855
Yeah, I've noticed that too. Cubans have a pretty distinctive accent. I'm used to it though, since they're probably one of the Hispanic groups we come across the most, especially if you don't live near the border. I can understand them just fine.
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>>222168695
Argentinian and chilean spanish are the most hideous and retarded accents I have ever heard. Colombian and 'certain' mexican accents are the best.
But let us not fool ourselves, brazilians speak portuguese outstandingly bad too. We have regional differences, but they all speak portuguese wrongly in a different manner. From the terrible structuring of the sentences to the awful accents that butcher vowels. The overall modern brazilian portuguese phonology is a disaster on so many levels.
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>>222169359
I only have a problem with bad grammar, like people saying "nós vai." Dropping vowels and blending sounds together makes speech easier, faster and more natural. Try saying "eu queria uma garrafa d'água da água de Lindóia e outra água ainda mais gelada" without any elision, vowel reduction, or palatalization and see how weird it sounds. It sounds like Google translate Portuguese. It's a good thing nobody actually speaks like that, Portuguese would sound awful if we pronounced every single vowel.
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>>222169739
>Portuguese would sound awful if we pronounced every single vowel.
t. paulista who pronounces "bate fote o tambor" as "bati forti ô tambô"
Paulistrannies really ruined brazilian portuguese due their massive media influence, alongside cariocas who also have a terrible accent.
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>>222169976
Yeah, I'm from SP, but that's not our accent. We'd say something closer to "bati foRt/foRti u tambôR," with a retroflex rhotic. In some areas, palatalization is absent altogether. More generally, vowel reduction and elision are widespread across Portuguese dialects. I can't think of any variety that completely lacks them.