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Originally Posted by The Man
Even when I spoke Spanish semi-fluently, I found it very difficult to understand the Castilian accent, and had to watch Pan’s Labyrinth with subtitles on (although I understood it better the more I watched it). It’s not like British and American English; the differences between Latin American and Continental Spanish are different enough that they’re practically different languages, the way the various forms of Chinese are.
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Oh yeah, I have huge problems understanding a number of Latin American accents. The one where they swallow esses is completely incomprehensible to me, and I could understand Spanish pretty decently even before I learned it because it's so similar to Italian. The one that I understand the best is Argentinian Spanish. I know this is weird, but I swear to God they speak Spanish with a Roman accent.