English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by StavrosK on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:20PM (#10643698)

Oh man, don't get me started. I'm trying to learn Spanish, and if I watch a movie from Spain, there's no "v" sound, everything is "b". If I watch a movie from Mexico, it's the other way around! Trying to get the accent right on my trips to Spain are pretty frustrating to me, although it's a pretty minor difference, so it ends up fine.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by foldr on Sunday November 29, 2015 @06:31AM (#10644389)

Surely both sounds exist in both vatieties? Mexicans don't pronounce 'bueno' with an initial fricative, and people from Spain don't pronounce 'estuvo' with a plosive at the beginning of the final syllable.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by StavrosK on Sunday November 29, 2015 @06:37AM (#10644397)

I don't know enough to know, I thought the Spanish did pronounce it "estubo".

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