Different Speaking Speeds in Spanish (how fast can you follow?)

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You guys always have a lot to say about our speaking speed. In general, speed is an important element of learning a language and there’s so much to say about it. So, we pulled it all together in a video where you can understand what’s up with speed and languages. You’ll also understand a lot more about speed and Spanish specifically and, best of all, you’ll be able to test your listening speed as well! #speaking_speed_spanish
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0:00 Intro
0:36 How fast are different Spanish?
4:43 Is Spanish a fast language?
7:57 Test your listening speed in Spanish
8:13 Level 1: 160 words per second
8:54 Level 2: 190 words per second
9:29 Level 3: 250 words per second
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@springspanish Жыл бұрын

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@gmtbird677 Жыл бұрын

I would have absolutely no interest in speaking with someone who chatters at the higher rate. Obviously, they would have no interest in listening to me as well. I am not a native Spanish-speaker and never will be - even if I could speak at 300 words/second. So, this is not impressive at all. I could speak English at a rapid rate that would be difficult for non-English speakers to understand as well. When I see videos like this my first thought is "I will never, ever, be able to speak in this fashion." That is what I have learned here today. Thanks for the video.

@danielparra5173 Жыл бұрын

Where is she from?

@gmtbird677 Жыл бұрын

@@danielparra5173 If you are speaking of Maura, she is from Venezuela (see the 4:10 mark of the video)

@danielparra5173 Жыл бұрын

@@gmtbird677 What a horrible place to be from.

@alfredogimenez334 Жыл бұрын

debería haber estado tambien el de España, ¿no?

@mariapaz6379 Жыл бұрын

Jaja yo soy de chile y la verdad es que 250 se escucha normal. Pero les dejo una anécdota relacionada con esto, el otro día mi roomie que es mexicana, se perdió en medio de un chisme porque hablábamos muy rápido, la pobre parecía que estuviera viendo un match de tenis con lo que movía la cabeza. Muy buen video, muy entretenido! Nota curiosa extra: Han pasado 2 meses, a la mexicana se le pego el "weon", todavía no lo dice perfecto. Pero es gracioso igual. Otras palabras nativas que también se le pegaron a nuestros amigos extranjeros: Fome Cachai Luka Po También hablan más rápido ahora. Hay otras palabras y frases que les cuestan aun, como: Aweonao Sapo Penca Quedar raja Quedar chato Y a nosotras se nos pegó la frase "y la queso"

@zeno2573 Жыл бұрын

Hermano yo soy argentino y los chilenos hablan otro idioma no me jodas

@submedark9848 Жыл бұрын

jajaja la cago, no yo no sentía que estuviese hablando rápido, se sentía normal los 250

@Srt3D01-db-01 Жыл бұрын

Esque ya escuchando los regionalismos de cada país, uno se va a perder

@omarzepedaaguilar Жыл бұрын

te prometo que era por la jerga/argot y no la velocidad

@imblackmagic1209 Жыл бұрын

160 era doloroso de escuchar la verdad, aparte de que hablamos rapido, no pronunciamos nada y tenemos caleta de jerga

@lellyparker Жыл бұрын

One thing I would like to point out too is that the more you practice listening to a native speaker, the slower they sound as your brain learns to recognize the words and phrases more rapidly.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

100% right! That's why when we hear languages we've rarely heard before it's almost impossible to know when one word ends and the other begins. Hence, it feels faster. =)=)=)

@BloodwolfTico Жыл бұрын

This is true for every language! (well, at least the ones im learning xD)

@michaelarighi5268 Жыл бұрын

I was fine at 190 and got about 60% of the 250. I'm not a native speaker, but I studied it in school and lived in Mexico and Central America for a period in the 60s and 70s and was, at one time, able to do simultaneous translation. I agree with @lellyparker. I don't use Spanish daily; maybe 2-3 times/month, so I don't get a ton of practice. It's like a muscle: You have to use it. When I've visited Spanish-speaking countries, I find it takes me about 2 days to adjust to the accent, speech pace and peculiarities (like the dropped "s"es in Caribbean Spanish). The marker I've found for when it's come back is when I start to dream in Spanish, usually a day or two in. At that point, I'm THINKING in Spanish, rather than translating. I WILL differ with one of her findings, though. I find Mexican women, talking among themselves, speak higher and faster than any other Spanish I've heard. Even a Guatemalan friend of mine who acknowledges that he speaks unusually rapidly (his mother sometimes had to have him repeat things!) says he can't understand them! For a gabacho, it was a lost cause! 😆

@mimij5015 Жыл бұрын

True. But they're still fast AF. I listen to songs with the written lyrics.

@eveliolanzoza7574 Жыл бұрын

Soy de Venezuela y mientes, en Venezuela se habla rápido y muy rápido según la región y a veces es incluso difícil para nosotros mismos de entender. Y eso del uso del spanglish estás bastante equivocada... No se usa tanto como dices que se usa.

@luisacosta5972 Жыл бұрын

I am a native Spanish speaker, and I can say Chile can be very hard to understand sometimes hehe. Mostly for the shortcuts, as you said.

@ignacioheredia9599 Жыл бұрын

No.... No has puesto a competir un dominicano, un chileno y un canario y un andaluz.

@alrn1282 Жыл бұрын

a los chilenos se les entiende clarito, es mentira eso que hablan mal o diferente, a los que no se les entiende son los dominicanos, su fuerte acento y lo rápido que hablan parece otro idioma

@genio2509 Жыл бұрын

Porque el Chileno es otro idioma Por si no saben, Chile es el país con más regionalismos y vocabulario exclusivo, usan tantas palabras solamente ahí que parece que no es español, pero si es, es sólo un meme

@ignacioheredia9599 Жыл бұрын

@@genio2509 pues, sinceramente, no más que la que usa un chilango mexicano o un porteño con giros de lunfardo. Y en cuanto s velocidad ahí están los dominicanos, portoriqueños, canarios y andaluces. Es más, el acento chileno no deja de ser un acento andaluz con un tono cantarín bien preservado gracias a su situación periférica y el aislamiento por los Andes.

@cristianpriego8600 Жыл бұрын

@@ignacioheredia9599 soy andaluz y verifico completamente lo que has dicho jajajajaja

@scottlarson1548 Жыл бұрын

I found a source of the slowest Spanish I've ever heard, perfect for learning. Most late nights around 1AM Colombia time Radio Colombia Nacional (available online) has a phone-in show. The host speaks with people all over Colombia and most people take a lot of care to express themselves slowly and carefully, taking pauses to think or restate when they had just said. Many callers are not highly educated so they speak in simple sentences that even I can understand. Also you get to hear all the various accents around Colombia.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

That's an amazing finding Scott! I'm sure it'll be very useful for the people in our community. Thank you so much for sharing! =)=)=)

@xavierlumley7997 Жыл бұрын

Gracias

@germandavidmaderomarino8574 Жыл бұрын

man you should listen a match of soccer, colombian national league is other world

@scottlarson1548 Жыл бұрын

@@germandavidmaderomarino8574 I prefer to listen to *slow* Spanish. 😃

Жыл бұрын

@@xavierlumley7997 We answer this way: A la orden o a sus órdenes, also: para servirle...

@el_rolfo Жыл бұрын

Me resulta curioso que aprendo inglés en un canal que se supone para aprender español jaja Me gustó mucho!

@10tronic Жыл бұрын

Estoy haciendo igual 😂😂😂

@JohnSayago Жыл бұрын

@@10tronic X2 🤣

@freetown10 Жыл бұрын

Es que también es la idea

@eus9 Жыл бұрын

Some years back I travelled South America for 6 months, starting in Colombia and overlanding all the way to Buenos Aires. I had never had a single lesson in Spanish but taught myself in the month leading up to the trip. After a month in Colombia I was doing great, and the people spoke clearly and slowly. Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia much the same. After 4 months, I was very confident in my Spanish and happily having full conversations with strangers about all kinds of things, including some deep subjects. Then I got to Chile. It was almost like I didn't speak a word, like I had not been speaking it for 4 months every day!

@lmarts Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I'm from Spain and the company I work for has Chilean customers. Apart from our main contact there, who slows down his speech on purpose, everytime we have a videoconference with them we have a hard time understanding, asking them to repeat, etc

@eus9 Жыл бұрын

@@lmarts that blows my mind that you as a native speaker struggle with Chileans!

@lmarts Жыл бұрын

@@eus9 Yes, I do with some of them. Granted we have a fluid conversation, but in many times we need to ask them to repeat because some word/expression is unknown to us or because of their pronunciation.

@imblackmagic1209 Жыл бұрын

@@lmarts I can confirm as a Chilean, we use a lot of words from Mapudungun and Aimara (indigenous languages of our country), and then we use different words for the same thing, much like australian english is different from brittish english and american english (I'd say chilean is to spanish like australian is to english) that said in business settings we usually employ a more formal pronunciation and use way less slang, casual spanish here is quite different from formal speech, but should apply to every language in every country anyway

@larinboi4464 Жыл бұрын

In fact, it is a joke among Spanish speakers that Chileans speak a different language, because they speak so fast and with a lot of slang.

@LuXx_CraftYT Жыл бұрын

Es interesante que en el español de Argentina, las 250 palabras por minuto suenen normal o incluso lento. El hecho del cantito también hace que mi acento suene incluso más rápido de lo que ya es. Un video muy interesante, sin dudas.

@HappyLuchoX Жыл бұрын

Y encima de argentino, pensá que un profe mío me dijo que hablaba un 50% más rápido que el promedio (o sea, que hablo a 1.5x de velocidad con respecto a lo más común), decí que sé hablar en "Español gringo" sino pobre por el que deba hablar conmigo jajaja

@LuXx_CraftYT Жыл бұрын

@@HappyLuchoX jajsaja tal cual, tengo varios conocidos que me dicen que parezco que hablase en x2 en los audios de WhatsApp. Aparte, mientras más te alejás de CABA, más "complejo" se hace el acento y la comprensión; confirmo desde mi acento cordobés. ¡Qué curioso todo!

@jphvnet Жыл бұрын

Igual depende la région. En Santiago del Estero van más lento, los Cordobeces pueden ir a mil...

@kevingalvis2141 Жыл бұрын

Mk, no soy argentino y se me hace normal escuchar a un argentino. De hecho, hay muchos canales en español que les subo la velocidad porque siento que hablan lento

@orion_winter Жыл бұрын

@@kevingalvis2141 La mayoría de argentinos bajamos la velocidad cuando platicamos con extranjeros o si hablamos con nosotros mismos. Yo lo que hago es cambiar a neutro, si no, nadie me entiende. Incluso hay gente que me dice "aprende a escribir" cada que escribo con dialecto xD

@nurnu349 Жыл бұрын

Soy de España y aquí, dependiendo de la zona la gente habla rapidísimo. Los guiris se pierden si no haces un esfuerzo. A muchos españoles nos parece que los latinos hablan más despacio que nosotros, entonan más... Pero puede ser subjetivo. Cuando estuve en Alemania y la gente me oía hablar en español con otro nativo, flipaba😂😂😂 Aunque no lo entendían , decían que sonaba a doble velocidad que cuando hablaba en alemán y lo hablaba rápido, a la velocidad normal allí😂😂😂😂

@Ditto_Travesti Жыл бұрын

Creo que es simple percepción porque sos más conciente de ello al sonar distinto. Yo soy de Argentina y el español ibérico me suena más lento y entonado, pero a la vez ni siquiera soy conciente de mi propia velocidad y acento.

@kevinmunoz1382 Жыл бұрын

Entonces en Chile vas a ser feliz xD Ellos corren hablando y con demasiados Modismos

@rafaelortegaesp Жыл бұрын

@@kevinmunoz1382 Yo, más que rapidez, lo que noto es mucha entonación, muchas "crestas-valles". El español de España tiende a ser más uniforme en la entonación. Al menos es mi apreciación.

@s.r1602 Жыл бұрын

Pues yo soy española y me dicen que hablo muy rápido

@HyperesthesiaCh Жыл бұрын

@@kevinmunoz1382 Hice muchos amigos chilenos cuando viví en UK. No me parecía que hablaran especialmente rápido, pero a veces me perdía porque usaban muchas palabras que en España no conocemos. A día de hoy sigo sin saber qué es "esa wea" que no paraban de mencionar xD

@yupazestru5189 Жыл бұрын

The problem is that high school spanish teachers speak at 105 words per minute. I've met English speakers who sound as fast as a Spanish speaker but they're quite rare.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, that makes sense. =)=)=)

@mmunoz630 Жыл бұрын

As a Dominican, levels 4 and 5 are in order 😂😂 level 3 sounded normal to me

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA, I feel you. 🤣🤣🤣

@TropiCanada Жыл бұрын

Cuban here, when it capped out at 3 I was like ohhhh xD.

@PH7018c Жыл бұрын

😄😄😄... y eso que hablo despacio para el promedio..

@johnhillescobar Жыл бұрын

Of course, she spoke slow on every level. We tend to speak faster than that.

@rosericmercedes2460 Жыл бұрын

😅 Dominican too. Everything sounded so.. erhm, slow and polite 😅

@renzot.8988 Жыл бұрын

As a native Spanish speaker I’m so proud that I can understand every word that you say in English :,)

@diegoespinoza3300 Жыл бұрын

Same 🥺

@Carrito-sanguchero Жыл бұрын

@@diegoespinoza3300 Un dato curioso El 99% de comentarios de estos tipos de videos que enseñan español viene de hablantes nativos del idioma español y el 1% de personas que no son hablantes nativos que quieren aprender español. Es como ir a una clase de inglés y todos los estudiantes son estadounidenses.. O una clase de español y todos los alumnos son mexicanos, peruanos, argentinos, chilenos

@annm47 Жыл бұрын

Level 2 was ok. Level 3 was beyond what my brain could swallow at once. Thank you for this video Maura!

@ZZStripesJazzy Жыл бұрын

Me too. I feel you

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

That's so interesting to know. Thank you so much Ann! =)=)=)

@Sonicstillpoint83 Жыл бұрын

Cual fue mi sorpresa, me alegre mucho el hecho de que aún pude entender 160 palabras por minuto sin dificultades. Aunque llevo más de 20 años tratando de aprender español, todo lo que puedo hacer cómodamente es conversar con académicos o entender algunas canciones después de leer la letra. Muchísimas gracias por haber Pasado todo el tiempo para hacer este video detallado. Fue muy útil y estoy entusiasmado para el futuro de mi español el que fue reavivado hoy por descubrir este canal.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

¡Hola John! Muchísimas gracias por tu comentario. Me alegra un montón haber revivido tus ánimos de estudiar español. ¡Para eso estamos! Bienvenid@ a nuestra comunidad =)=)=)

Жыл бұрын

Pues entonces como escuches a Ska-P cantando, por ejemplo, vas a tener un problema 😆

@Ssaidak Жыл бұрын

Bueno, yo soy española y lo entiendo más o menos, porque es una manera de hablar muy distinta.

@tuny1209 Жыл бұрын

Escribes mejor que muchos hispanohablantes😅

@Ditto_Travesti Жыл бұрын

¡Felicidades! tu español escrito ha alcanzado un nivel SUPERIOR al de un hablante nativo promedio, sentí que debía felicitarte por ello. En cuanto al español hablado, no te preocupes, la mejor manera de entender más rápido es conversando mucho con hablantes nativos; bueno, eso y ver películas sin subtítulos también ayuda.

@leonelllavante Жыл бұрын

No se preocupen por la velocidad al hablar, yo soy hablante nativo de español (Argentina) y muchas veces no entiendo lo que la gente dice. Hablar un poco más lento pero claro y con ritmo te hace ver una persona más tranquila y segura. Suerte para todos con el español ❤

@ignajara Жыл бұрын

Opino lo mismo! No se trata de hablar rápido, sino de tener un control consciente del ritmo y el tono. Es impresionante la diferencia cuando alguien maneja el tono y el ritmo de lo que habla, vs. alguien que habla muy rapido o muy lento. No se apuren! Suerte a todos!

@pablomartinezschroder4799 Жыл бұрын

For me, as a Spaniard, It was funny that the OG of Spanish (from Spain) was not mentioned. 😅 I'm from the south and here there are many sounds that are not pronounced so I believe that "andaluz" is in the fast side of the accents but I honestly don't know.

@PM-ld4nn Жыл бұрын

Normalmente creo que sí, un andaluz promedio habla 7 veces más rápido que un mexicano promedio.

@jordicl4325 Жыл бұрын

Si empieza a hablar andaluz rapido les explota la cabeza a muchos 😂😂.

@Maxcube78 Жыл бұрын

a los andaluces no os entendeis ni vosotros a veces xD, muchas veces hablais tan rapido que podeis abreviar una frase entera diciendo ea

@HugoCano Жыл бұрын

a shakira no le importa, por eso ha hecho este video

@papaloc8439 Жыл бұрын

@@Maxcube78 JAJAJAJA ea

@georgestanko2523 Жыл бұрын

That was great! Level 3 lost me a bit, but i was able to follow along with levels 1 and 2. One of my handicaps is that i simply dont know all of the words in spanish yet. its easy to get lost if you dont know a word. its fun to practice, though. I made a good friend from Peru about a year ago and we talk a lot, her english is very good but she wants to improve. I absolutely love the way she speaks her native language. Her spanish is extremely crisp and articulate. She even taught me some Quechua. One last tidbit, she tells me that she thinks "fast english" is harder to understand than "fast spanish".

@garrymontgomery2033 Жыл бұрын

That's why reading along with appropriate-level audio implants new vocab without the need to memorize

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Thank you George! I really appreciate you sharing. I 100% agree that vocabulary is a big part of being able to keep up with speed. So interesting that you get to learn some Quechua. And yes, Peru's Spanish is very crisp. Hahaha, I don't know if I agree. I think fast Spanish is kinda crazy 🤣

@keis9247 Жыл бұрын

Yeah if any of the levels had more words I understood I would have followed better. I must say though because I can understand about 50% of the words I can work out the rest using that and also the context

@dannylaredo6468 Жыл бұрын

Is that Peruvian Spanish is more neutral, we have almost no accent.

@garrymontgomery2033 Жыл бұрын

@@dannylaredo6468 I have a Peruvian friend and her diction is a pleasure to listen to. Her English is native quality and now lives in Canada where she's learning French.

@jssmedialangs Жыл бұрын

So basically, we need you to start making videos speaking at your most natural speed. 😅 I REALLY need it because lately I've been practicing with natives who speak much faster than what I've gotten used to. 😭

@luisheredia4687 Жыл бұрын

She speaks way slow hahaha

@benjaminbryant2680 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely loved this video. I am fluent in Spanish and used to use my Spanish regularly until the last 6 years. Now I use it from time-to-time. Lived in Argentina for two years, back in 1987 - 1989.

@victormanteca7395 Жыл бұрын

Your map of Spanish speaking countries left out... well... Spain. I wonder how fast is European Spanish by average. I know for a fact that it changes wildly depending on the regional accent.

@szk4023 Жыл бұрын

I was about to make the same comment!

@angyliv8040 Жыл бұрын

One of the fastest. In the south of spain there're the fastest speaking because the make words shorter.

@kyordannydelvalle523 Жыл бұрын

Nah, that place is for the chilean that speak it way faster

@ArCaNaNiS Жыл бұрын

We shorten words so yeah. I’d say the southwestern accent is the most difficult one.

@kyordannydelvalle523 Жыл бұрын

Honorable mentions would be the carribean spanish like the Puerto Rico.

@Bays1k Жыл бұрын

My wife is from Chile (lived there her whole life) and she could understand all of this so easily… I was even pausing the T.V. to quiz her 😂😂 Great video!!

@fabianbecker6266 Жыл бұрын

Level 2 … level 3 is like a hurricane of words blowing right into my face :D

@ZZStripesJazzy Жыл бұрын

Yesss it’s like a hurricane 😂

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, that's understandable. But hey, a lot of Spanish speakers won't speak at level 3 anyways and you can always ask them to slow down, so you're good. =)=)=)

@apfelhauer6677 Жыл бұрын

Really great and informative video! I could even follow level 3, since I am living in Chile for 7 months by now 😄

@jesusenrique2004 Жыл бұрын

@rataflechera Жыл бұрын

A personal anecdote, I was visiting Cuba, back in 1989 for an international competition. Some of the Cubans hosts complained how they found that us, Colombians and Mexicans, spoke too fast. We always had the impressions that it was Cubans (Caribbeans in general) who spoke too fast. But there was another anecdote in that trip: when hosts spoke to us, we could communicate with very little problem: one same language, just different accents, save the occasional localism communication flowed naturally. But when hosts spoke with their local friends without expectation that we should listen, then it became unintelligible. That trip taught me interesting things that we would confuse with speed (too fast) such as rythm and cadence. Highland Mexican and Colombian are very syllabic languages. Lowland dialects such as Caribbean and Rioplatense have a more stress paced rythm, closer but not quite to English. I also understood register: how you normally change your pronunciation, your pacing, even your vocabulary, according to your audience and formality level. That would be less noticeable in my native Rolo (Bogotan) acrolect (affluent dialect) and more noticeable in Cubans or Chileans, as well as in certain basilects (popular dialects) in which coloquial and formal speech vary more.

@christopherhurdle8485 Жыл бұрын

Me encantó este vídeo. Tengo muchas ganas de viajar por el mundo de habla hispana. Voy a crear un documental acerca de mi experiencia😁.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

¡Me alegro Chris! Fue divertido grabarlo. ¡Sería lo máximo! Si documentas esa experiencia me aseguraré de seguirte y apoyarte. =)=)=)

@christopherhurdle8485 Жыл бұрын

@@MauraSpringSpanish ¡Muchas gracias!🙏🙏

@jamesfreese4700 Жыл бұрын

Great video-clarifying that there are different speeds really helps-especially for different countries!!!

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Thank you James! Really appreciate it =)=)=)

@cindys2995 Жыл бұрын

I understood the words at the level 3, but didn't know some of the MEANINGS. This affects understanding, obviously - THANK YOU for this, it was EXCELLENT!

@javierortega879 Жыл бұрын

En España hablamos distinto segun donde vivimos ..incluso tenemos 5 idiomas distintos al español o castellano... en el sur no solo hablamos mas rapido sino que acortamos las palabras😁

@xangarabana Жыл бұрын

En España hay 3 idiomas y dialectos.

@bavi647 Жыл бұрын

@@xangarabana el asturiano es otro a contar

@xangarabana Жыл бұрын

@@bavi647 el asturiano no es idioma. Si se impulsa como idioma es por motivación política (constitución del 78).

@francocordero32 Жыл бұрын

@@xangarabana en Latinoamérica es muy común que los países tengan mas de un idioma también, sin ir más lejos Bolivia reconoce como oficiales 36 idiomas...

@Pubscrub_Rion Жыл бұрын

es cierto que los gallegos hablan diferente? o me equivoco de region?

@mh017509 Жыл бұрын

You speak so clearly I follow you easily even at the fastest speed. Which I can’t say of my many Spanish speaking friends who swallow half of the words they’re saying !

@amyperusse8951 Жыл бұрын

I definitely appreciate your slow Spanish. Thanks!!

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Thank you Amy! I appreciate having you here. =)=)=)

@barrysteven5964 Жыл бұрын

I speak Spanish and have spent a lot of time working with and speaking to Spanish speakers. Although I am from the UK and learned my Spanish in Spain there are two people I used to work with who I found the easiest to understand of everyone and they were both from Latin America. One was from Guatemala City and the other from Bogotá. I have always found people from Bogotá to be fairly easy to understand but there are other accents from Colombia I struggle with like those on the Caribbean coast. When I was first studying Spanish I found phonetics lessons incredibly useful. We were specifically taught how one word links to the following word. So a sentence like ¿dónde está el coche amarillo? would not be said as 11 syllables but as 8 - don-des-tael-ko-chya-ma-ri-llo.

@titaramirez378 Жыл бұрын

Yes. The best and clearest pronunciation of the Spanish language in Latin America is held by the Original Citizens of *BOGOTÁ and LIMA, PERU.* *OF COURSE! FOR SURE!* *When I say "original citizens", I mean people BORN and RAISED in Lima or Bogotá, with ancestors of 3 generations, established living in these cities.*

@michaelarighi5268 Жыл бұрын

I lived in Guatemala City for a while and I agree. The speech rate is moderate and their pronunciation tends to be pretty clear.

@theMASTER810 Жыл бұрын

Wooow, soy nativo de México y no me había dado cuenta de que hacíamos eso para hablar más rápido. Me voló la cabeza.

@user-xr2ik4hl7i Жыл бұрын

Hey Maura, I think it would be better if you would do all of your videos purely in spanish (with spanish and english subtitles). To me, it is difficult to switch between the two languages in my brain. Your videos are great, thanks a lot!

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Hi there! Thanks a lot for sharing, we take all of your comments into consideration. =)=)=) We do have listening practice videos that are purely in Spanish, if you're interested. This is the latest: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebCVY9xpqtSsmYU.html

@KamiliumAMVs Жыл бұрын

Good vídeo, I'm glad I stumbled across this channel (thanks KZfaq algorithm) I can understand pretty well even at the high speeds of 250 (maybe it was just because the vocabulary was relatively basic) but it's really hard for me to understand when people are talking to me in realtime Spanish conversation. Maybe it's just because I am here passively absorbing the language versus having all the stress of the person right there and responding to them😅

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

So glad you found us! ¡Bienvenid@! =)=)=) I feel you. Something similar happens to me with French. Only that I understand them on Tv and when they talk to me, but not when they talk to each other, hahaha.

@ferjesc Жыл бұрын

Como habitante del caribe Colombiano, la zona de Colombia donde mas rapido se habla, me identifico con las 250 pps y por momentos mas rápido. He visto bastante televisión Argentina y algo de Chile y he notado que cuando discuten suben bastante la velocidad pero jamás he sentido que hablan demasiado rapido para mi oído. He ido a Venezuela y hablan a nuestra misma velocidad natural y cuando vinieron Puerto Riqueños a los juegos centroamericanos hace poco, uno de ellos me dijo que le sorprendía que habláramos tan parecido. Asi que si, diria que las personas del caribe en general hablamos muy rápido.

@jorgebarba3033 Жыл бұрын

I reached succesfully level 3, Un besazo desde España

@kalindiya Жыл бұрын

I understood everything without slightest problem at highest speed 250 w/s and also all of you except Maria. I don't know if it was audio or the accent but there I could catch only single words. It sounded more like mumbling. Your pronunciation is spot on, very clear even at the highest speed

@kassidydavis5565 Жыл бұрын

Yo soy de EEUU pero vivo en argentina desde hace 2 años entendí todo y hasta la parte final me pareció bastante normal igual estoy acostumbrada a escuchar los audios en x2 ajajaja por ahí tengo el oído un poco entrenado para escuchar cosas rápidas

@cris_ahk14 Жыл бұрын

escribes bien!

@whamocat Жыл бұрын

Your pronunciation es muy clara y tu voz es hermosa. I can't follow the two faster speeds, but that said, when I hear Spanish being spoken that rapidly, it´s never with such clear diction. Muchas gracias!

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Sarah! You're so kind. I really appreciate that. ¡Muchas gracias a ti por compartir y estar aquí! =)=)=)

@keis9247 Жыл бұрын

The gaps between words become less clear as speech gets faster. It seems like the words blend and there is a fine line between the end of one word and the start of the next

@whamocat Жыл бұрын

@@keis9247 that is the proper pronunciation, native speakers don't leave gaps between syllables, and when strong vowels (a, e, o) meet weak vowels (i,u) they create diphthongs: mi esposo sounds like mies-PO-so. And, unstressed words ( articles, possessive adj., object pronouns, etc) merge into stressed words: valiÓ la PEna. There's a musicality to Spanish that I am determined to key into, ja ja!

@kyordannydelvalle523 Жыл бұрын

@@keis9247 Additionally spanish don't have what it called "Long vowel" like long a or short a. They are pronounce at the same rate which help build momentum and speak it at a faster rate since it is not needed to make long pauses.

@mateoroldan-raymond8176 Жыл бұрын

great video for my studies! Thank you!

@joseespinoza6283 Жыл бұрын

I´m from Venezuela and I don´t know why is so mesmerizing for me to watch this video

@francis9487e Жыл бұрын

Hola, soy de Argentina, esto me recuerda una anécdota de cuando era chico y con mi primo nos dimos cuenta de lo rápido que hablábamos, nos dimos cuenta porque en vez de decir "qué hora es?" Decíamos algo que sonaba como "queraé?".

@francis9487e Жыл бұрын

@Dreadnought Bastante maleducado, agresivo y de poco tacto de tu parte decirlo de esa manera. No eramos pobres ni de clase baja, teníamos 7-9 años y lo notamos porque era mucho más rápido pedir las cosas en español. Gracias por compartir que obviamente sos de capital.

@digitalprofile1320 Жыл бұрын

@Dreadnought nada que ver, trabajo con gente de todas las clases sociales y hay gente con plata que habla todo abreviado. salí un poco a la calle.

@digitalprofile1320 Жыл бұрын

@Dreadnought Yo también soy de capital jajaj que tiene que ver la provincia. Te digo que hay gente de clase económica alta que habla para el ogt y los tengo que atender todos los días en Recoleta. Tremendo snob.

@samfrancisco_1 Жыл бұрын

Pude entender todo hasta el tercer nivel. Pero la verdad es que al parecer unos nativos hablan más rápido que 250 palabras por segundo 😂. Pero me pone feliz que haya entendido todo. Gracias por este vídeo

@wil-fri Жыл бұрын

No me conoces no me conoces[voz cada vez más aguda]

@juanmfe Жыл бұрын

Yo soy de Chile y el nivel de 250 palabras por minuto me pareció promedio o incluso un poco lento 😅

@trafalgarlaw1226 Жыл бұрын

😂😂 confirmo

@wil-fri Жыл бұрын

Si sigo a Linus esto no es tan dificil

@Magabytes Жыл бұрын

No sabía que esto existía. Omggg. Amo 😍😍😍

@Balinn1 Жыл бұрын

Me encantó el video. Como otros aquí han comentado, entendí bien el nivel 2 pero el tercer nivel me costó. Soy norteamericano pero viví en Venezuela por 17 años y me casé con una venezolana. Gracias por la ayuda.

@user-iv6bn8xt8v Жыл бұрын

For me 160 was fine. 190 was doable with extra concentration. BTW, I lived in Panamá for awhile and thought they spoke super fast. They also leave off Ss and Ds and shorten words. I was a newbe to Spanish and had a hard time learning there. Spring Spanish has helped me so much that I'm now rewatching a novela I watched in Panama and understand a lot of what they're saying. I couldn't understand anything the first time I watch it. Thank you so much for your videos!

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for being here and sharing! It must feel incredible to re-watch that novela and understand so much more. Enjoy it and celebrate it! =)=)=)

@theedgeofoblivious Жыл бұрын

At 160 words per minute I could understand almost everything. I missed one word, and that kind of threw off the sentence, but I understood all of the others. At 190, I still understood almost everything that was said, because I was familiar with the particular chunks(😁). At 250, though, I lost almost everything.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

That's very interesting! Thank you so much for sharing and for proving the importance of chunks! hahaha =)=)=)

@joshuepico75 Жыл бұрын

That's quite good, as a native speaker, the 250wpm still felt quite slow, but that's because I speak faster than that, good luck on your Spanish learning journey!

@irmarazo8904 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!!

@briankelly1240 Жыл бұрын

You are an exceptional teacher!

@ronaldharris5562 Жыл бұрын

Gracias por la lección… pienso que es más difícil para entender hispanohablantes cuando hablan más rápido. Tengo mucho aprender

@toddschweitzer1706 Жыл бұрын

¡ Tema fabuloso! ¿ Sientes que el español se habla más rapido en las ciudades que en las zones rurales en general? ¡ Que' lección absolutamente fascinante! !mil gracias!

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

¡Me alegro que te haya gustado, Todd! A mi también me resultó interesante. Creo que el español se habla más rápido en las costas. Entiendo que hay una explicación científica para eso. =)=)=)

@cahallo5964 Жыл бұрын

@@MauraSpringSpanish aquí en Chile se habla mucho más rápido en la zona cordillerana

@EL_VIEJO_VAQUERO 15 күн бұрын

This video was really helpful. I have been learning spanish with duolingo for about 6 months. At 160 words a minute I didn't know all the words but understood 90percent of the conversation. At 190 per min I understood about 50 percent . At 210 I was completely lost. Lol

@fabianb8741 Жыл бұрын

Nuevo suscriptor :D, este canal me servirá mucho para practicar mi inglés :D

@khangvutien2538 Жыл бұрын

Realmente no importa lo rápido que dijo Maura, siempre hay algo que aprender 🤣👍

@quetevalgavergaaa Жыл бұрын

I'm a native speaker raised and living in Mexico and I couldn't understand the first sentence either lol so don't feel bad 😂 my boyfriend is Chilean and at first I had quite a lot of trouble understanding him (and my parents still don't understand him at all), but after a while I started understanding everything, so it's not a lost cause. Also, I remember than my parents were never able to watch Colombian shows because they thought they were speaking waaaay too slow and they couldn't overcome it lol

@ivanasaurio_ Жыл бұрын

como hablante nativa de español disfruté mucho testear los niveles qué mi oído soporta. y como argentina, el nivel tres fue como hablar casi que hasta lento con mis amigos! jaja saludos

@sebastianalvarez3776 Жыл бұрын

It's VERY STRANGE to me that KZfaq recommended me this video, I'm a native spanish speaker

@victorfernandes7521 Жыл бұрын

Eu sou brasileiro, e queria ver até onde eu conseguiria entender mesmo nunca tendo estudado espanhol (Porém, já estudei francês, italiano e romeno), devo dizer que entendi 100% dos 3 níveis de velocidade, e isso é o bom de falar português kkkkkkk você entende espanhol muito facilmente, uma pena que eles não nos entendam com a mesma facilidade.

@haroldavispena7628 Жыл бұрын

Vc está errado nós podemos entender vocês também sem ter estudado português nossas línguas são irmãs

@LiMaky Жыл бұрын

Eu quero aprender o português, mas a pronúncia sim é diferente :(((

@albertgrant1017 Жыл бұрын

Good Comment !

@victorfernandes7521 Жыл бұрын

@@haroldavispena7628 amigo eu sei que da pra uma pessoa que fala Espanhol entender português, mas a inteligibilidade é assimétrica. Quem fala português entende mais o espanhol do que o contrário, isso se dá pela complexidade da pronúncia do português, nós temos muitos sons que não existem em espanhol e isso dificulta a compreensão.

@haroldavispena7628 Жыл бұрын

@@victorfernandes7521 bom isso é verdade eu ainda não consigo entender a diferença entre avó e avô pra mim é a mesma coisa kkkk 🤪

@indrahx5905 Жыл бұрын

This video was super informative, thank you! My native language is German, Spanish is only my 4th. The speed is the biggest problem (okay, the past tenses are no fun either). Interesting to know that German is indeed slower, I didn't know that. To me Spanish sounds like a record played way too fast 😄 I hope my brain will get there one day.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, your brain will get there for sure. Just keep feeding it Spanish. Thanks a lot for sharing! =)=)=)

@markpolo97 Жыл бұрын

Spanish differentiates between words a whole lot less than German does. (The whole sentence becomes an arc that is not broken up by the individual words.) I had one German textbook with a whole chapter about how to squish your sentences together without word breaks. (Don't recommend that book for learning. At least for me as a native English speaker, it really overcomplicated things.) As to the past tenses, if you approach it through the lens of English it's probably a lot easier than through the lens of German. My German students struggle with idiomatic usage of tenses in English, Latin and Spanish, simply because German doesn't differentiate nearly as much. English is "closer" to the Spanish tense system than German by a long shot, and you probably have more years of English under your belt than Spanish. My experience of the video was that I could understand all three speeds, but I suspect I would tire of the level of concentration I needed at 250 words per minute. 190 was fairly normal (most of my Spanish experience is with Mexicans, though I have experience with people from across the continent as well as Spaniards). 150 I could hear in the background and do something else while still understanding everything.

@rafaelarrieche Жыл бұрын

muy interesante video. Aunque mi meta es hablar inglés, el cual leo con facilidad, veo que este canal me ayudaría a captar la pronunciación correcta. un excelente trabajo el que realizas. GRACIAS 😁👍Desde Barquisimeto

@GreenGiant2007 Жыл бұрын

When I listened to the segment of you speaking at your natural speed, I couldn’t even read the subtitles fast enough 🥵. For the test at the end, I managed level 1 and the gist of level 2. But level 3 may as well have been in Japanese! 😂

@LetoAtreides82 Жыл бұрын

Level 3 was easy to follow for me (although this might be because the vocabulary used was quite basic and it was just a quick answer). I prefer when people talk at either level 1 or level 2. My normal talking speed in spanish is level 1.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

Give yourself a pat on the back! Understanding Level 3 means your brain is absolutely ready for new Spanish challenges. =)=)=)

@eillhart Жыл бұрын

Parece que casi tres años viviendo en Argentina te cambia el nivel de comprensión de español, jaja! De verdad, pensé que 250 palabras para un minuto sería demasíado rápido para mí pero lo entendí sin problema. De verdad, me pareció que hablaste bastante lento y pronunciaste todo super claro!

@ewwitsantonio Жыл бұрын

This is truly my biggest obstacle with spanish. It is SO difficult for me to understand native speed. My ears are just not trained for it. If someone slows down for me, I can usually understand between 50% and 100% of the sentence. When it's slow, I can easily identify the word or two I don't know yet and ask about it in the conversation. When people speak at native speeds, I miss nearly everything. It's REALLY challenging! One of the hard parts too is when I'm traveling in spanish speaking places, someone will say something to me full speed, and I ask for them to repeat (because it is too fast) and then they switch to english. For those that actually slow down for me, it turns out I understand perfectly each word and the total sentence - just not at normal speeds. Hearing it first fast, then again slow helps me in recognizing similar sentences at fast rates in the future.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

That's very interesting! Thanks a lot for sharing! It is a very good idea to listen to the same information in different speeds to train the brain. KZfaq allows you to play with the speed so you might be onto something (very creative) you can do to reinforce that strategy. =)=)=)

@chiisaitensai Жыл бұрын

Excelente video!! 👏 Realmente tienes la dicción perfecta para enseñar. Yo soy mexicana y suelo hablar muy lento 😅 pero creo que es porque soy muy insegura.

@robertflint2549 Жыл бұрын

Hi Maura. One needs to challenge and extend oneself with this auditory stuff. At first I found even teachers of Spanish on KZfaq quite fast. Then I got used to them over half a dozen years. Now they seem to speak unnaturally slowly to me, both the ones from Spain and from Latin America, not that I don't like listening to them. Then I started to listen and watch news reports and documentaries on KZfaq, and still do. I currently know, having done a lot of this listening to documentaries, that I have to now listen more to ordinary people speaking naturally as you do in parts of this vid. I need to do this is in order to take my listening skills up to an even higher level. This improvement all comes slowly and organically providing one gets a lot of varied input and, more importantly, providing one has staying power. (You can get some of this latter exposure from movies and TV series online for example). My ability to listen to Spanish is now on a par with what I can understand when listening to ordinary French. It took me several decades to reach this level of French, but well, that was without KZfaq...

@robertflint2549 Жыл бұрын

I struggled a bit with your third speed at the end, but still, I got the gist of it. This is exactly the speed I wish to listen to now with castellano.

@georgestanko2523 Жыл бұрын

I completely agree with everything you said. A bit more than 4 years for me. Progress that you dont notice day-to-day but its inevitable if you stick with it and practice every day. Lately ive been watching TVPeru Noticias. Like CNN here but made by Peruvians for a Peruvian audience.

@robertflint2549 Жыл бұрын

@@georgestanko2523 Exactly, George.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

That's incredible Robert! Thank you so much for sharing this very useful perspective on listening skills. It's really inspiring and empowering. I totally agree that one has to work with oneself this way: find your level, solify it and then push it. =)=)=)

@robertflint2549 Жыл бұрын

@@MauraSpringSpanish Gracias, amiga, grandes palabras. Un abrazo para ti.

@KALMAGEDDON Жыл бұрын

Me hubiese gustado ver a España en el mapa del español 😮‍💨

@jpgarcia6282 Жыл бұрын

España sería medio lento no? Aunque cuanto más al sur, más rápido hablan 😂

@alfredogimenez334 Жыл бұрын

@@jpgarcia6282 no, es el más rápido de todos :)

@jpgarcia6282 Жыл бұрын

@@alfredogimenez334 no creo que un catalán, vasco o asturiano, sean rápidos. Pero si un andaluz suele hablar muy rapido

@maxwellhudson6385 Жыл бұрын

Soy de Bahamas y hablando mis segunda idioma español por 37 anos con fluides, me encanta prendiendo idiomas y investigando educación así dar riqueza. Ahora estoy en mis cuatro idiomas italiano.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

¡Qué increíble Maxwell! ¡Bien por ti! Aprender idiomas es como aprender magia. =)=)=)

@cassieinspanish8218 7 ай бұрын

Me encantan sus personajes.

@ellobodeacero Жыл бұрын

como dominicano los 3 niveles se escucharon como cuando aquí intentamos hablar medio despacito xD en mi caso yo tengo que moderar mi velocidad mucho porque algunas veces ni mi familia y amigos locales me entienden cuando hablo por la velocidad que suelo alcanzar

@wonderwomanredson Жыл бұрын

Soy dominicana también y confirmo, y más cuando estamos enojados 😂😂😂

@ellobodeacero Жыл бұрын

@@wonderwomanredson ya lo sabes jajajaja xD

@sebumpostmortem Жыл бұрын

I' m not sure if it' s the fastest but the accent from Andalucía (the southern region of Spain) + their speed is crazy and sometimes impossible to understand even for the rest of us.😅 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

@sevillabonita1980 Жыл бұрын

Así es.

@jojofanatico6928 Жыл бұрын

hasta donde yo sé, andalucía, chile y la república dominicana, aunque de este último no tengo mucha seguridad, son los países que más rápido hablan, pero en términos de cual se entiende más, al menos en las encuestas que yo he visto, el chileno es que el menos entienden los otros hispanos.

@cristianpriego8600 Жыл бұрын

Then if you try to listen a random speech by a typical countryfied old man in Andalusia,you'll turn crazy

@cahallo5964 Жыл бұрын

@@cristianpriego8600 gran parte de los vicios del acento chileno viene de andaluces y gallegos intentando hablar con vascos y viceversa. Siendo los andaluces y vascos los que más llegaron acá a colonizar

@ainhoahernancortes6876 Жыл бұрын

@@cahallo5964 Supongo que también fueron muchos castellanos. Eso ocurrió en más zonas. Influye que fuese un virreinato con mucha presencia española, el nivel de escolarización, universidades, el idioma de los indios y negros (por ejemplo, donde hay muchos negros el español está más alejado del estándar, a mí me cuesta entender a los dominicanos), etc. Seguro que influyó que Chile estuviese tan alejado y no tenía tantos recursos que ofrecer como otras zonas. La zona que hoy es Estados Unidos fue explorada, fueron los primeros en cartografiarlo, pero no había buen suelo ni clima, etc. y se prefirió poner más interés en Nueva España (México) y Perú, así que el español de ahí es bastante bueno a pesar de la debacle, en todos los sentidos, tras las separaciones/secesiones

@James-vx2wm Жыл бұрын

I like the care you put into the videos and how you come across. Ironically, even though you’re speaking fast you are still taking your time to explain things!

@freemind360 Жыл бұрын

For me the most fast spanish is from Extremadura/Spain. Greetings from Termas de Monfortinho

@El_Fernex Жыл бұрын

como un ciudadano de un país en el que nuestro idioma oficial es el español puedo decir que logre pasar todos los ¨niveles¨ de dificultad sin ninguna dificultad xd

@zirio3925 Жыл бұрын

Eres hablante nativo?

@El_Fernex Жыл бұрын

@@zirio3925 si

@mina_en_suiza Жыл бұрын

En realidad, podrías haber hablado más rápido todavía que en la última entrevista. Había pausas claras entre las palabras y las frases y, sobre todo, tu pronunciación fue muy clara. En las partes (muy cortas) cuando hablaste de forma natural fue un poco más difícil, no tanto por la velocidad, sino porque no estoy muy acostumbrada a tu acento y me costaba un poco identificar cada sonido (¡Las jotas!). Generalmente, escucho los videos de youtube con velocidad elevada (factor entre 1,5 y 2). Lo que sí: La parte de 250 palabras por minuto con factor 2, ya no va. Hablo y entiendo bastante bien el español, pero parece que mi límite de comprensión está en más o menos 350 palabras por minuto.

@addielquinteronaranjo8481 Жыл бұрын

Amazing what u do

@wladiban Жыл бұрын

Soy de Chile y la verdad te entendí hasta el acento más rápido sin problemas....por algo será. Slds.

@Ditto_Travesti Жыл бұрын

I am Argentine and even level 3 (250 per minute) sounded slow to what my ear is used to. I should mention that there is a well-known phenomenon in Argentina, which is that Argentines who are of Italian descent speak faster than the rest on average.

@SpencerLowe-kg4rg Жыл бұрын

Do you find that Argentines of Italian origin who start speaking Fast or Angry or Intense. The Italian accent comes out.

@MiguelAnton1994 Жыл бұрын

@@SpencerLowe-kg4rg Not answering your question but I'm just gonna clarify that here in Argentina, how "Italian" someone's accent sounds generally has more to do with where they live than their origin/blood. For example, someone from Buenos Aires will probably sound more Italian than someone from Mendoza, even if the former has 0% Italian blood and the latter has 80% Italian blood.

@mprstudiophotography8782 Жыл бұрын

En México hablamos distinto dependiendo de la region. Yo vivo en el Norte de México y cuando viajo al sur de México a visitar familia mis primos siempre me acusan de hablar muy rápido. Y hasta me dicen "Prima! Más despacio que no estamos jugando carreras" 😂😂😂

@nova4476 Жыл бұрын

I’m Mexican but I was waiting for something faster than level 3 jajaja. Everyone in my family talks very fast for whatever reason. I personally hate talking slow in either language 😅.

@Philosopearl Жыл бұрын

Gracias por hablar un poquito despacio. Me ayuda un montón!

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

¡Me alegro mucho Meg! Gracias a ti por estar aquí. =)=)=)

@RyugaChan Жыл бұрын

Wait, no. There are two countries in South America where they don't speak spanish, one is Chile and the other is Brazil.....and I'm not totally sure about the latter

@issa_Abdullah_issa Жыл бұрын

Hola maurita nuestra profe 😁 el español de México suena muy claro de entender para mí y creo que el español de Colombia un poquito difícil porque a veces hay algunas letras ellos no pronuncian y el español de Venezuela también un poquito difícil para mí..

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

¡Hola! Jaja, lo entiendo perfecto. También es muy posible que estés más familiarizado con el español de México. La familiarización influye muchísimo. =)=)=)

@issa_Abdullah_issa Жыл бұрын

@@MauraSpringSpanish sí sí tal vez 😁

@jesuslorenteescudero4745 Жыл бұрын

Pienso lo mismo. Soy español y para mí el español de Colombia es muy difícil de entender. Hablan con una entonación muy rara. Mucho mejor el español de España. Es mucho más claro.

@amandaconstanza Жыл бұрын

entiendo mucho el de mexico en tv y peliculas en general, pero una vez vi una pelicula sobre un barrio bien malo y pobre de mexico y tuve que verla con subtitulos pq no entedía nada (soy de chile asi que español nativo)

@amandaconstanza Жыл бұрын

@@jesuslorenteescudero4745 bueno si eres español obvio es claro para ti jaja a mi me costó varias películas poder entender el acento de españa sin subtitulos

@garrymontgomery2033 Жыл бұрын

Querida Maura, you just justified the use of the speed control button on the videos so that you as a teacher, don't get bored and we have a goal to achieve. But, when you slow down to level 1 we can appreciate your beautiful pronunciation and lyrical voice..

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

¡Hola Garry! Jajaja, very clever. Gracias por el cumplido. ¡Un abrazo! =)=)=)

@martinzlatev6234 Жыл бұрын

Japanese is on the fist place on the list followed by Spanish because they don't have so many consonant clusters like English or German for example. Japanese has basically only open syllables like a i u e o ka ki ku ke ko sa shi su se so, etc. The only closed syllables are with an "n" ん/ン like kan kin ken kon, etc. This makes Japanese really fast. Spanish is pretty much the same, you have many open syllables and not so many closed except usually for the words in plural ending in "s" which get ommited in many dialects, the "r"-s int the infinitives and some other words ending in consonants. Italian has also not so many closed syllables, but they have double consonants, which prolong the vowels or make a short pause and change the meaning of the words. E.g. capello (hair) - cappello (hat), caro (dear or expensive) - carro (wagon or chariot), sono (I am or they are) - sonno (sleep), etc. And many Italian dialects tend to have this "sing-songy" speech melody in general which slows the pronunciation a bit. English and German have lots of sound clusters and glottal stops that slower the pronunciation of the words. And German often has quite long compound words with lots of consonants. E.g. for consonant clustes in German: Durchschnitt - Du*rchschn*itt, Haftplicht - Ha*ftpfl*i*cht*, Streichholzschächtelchen - Str*ei*chh*o*lzsch*ä*cht*e*lch*en E.g. for long words in German I have really seen or heard in my daily live: "Sozialversicherungsfachangestelltenauszubildender, Unabhängigkeitserklärung, Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit, Arbeiterunfallverischerungsgesetz, Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung, Massenkommunikationsdienstleistungsunternehmen" Chinese and Vietnamese are tonal languages, where the intonation plays a huge role, so it is not surprising that they are among the slowest languages. Plus the words in these languages are usually one-two syllabic so they have to make more small logical pauses between the words and pronounce the tones clearly to be understood. 你好很高兴见到你。(Nǐhǎo - hěn - gāoxìng - jiàndào - nǐ). And last but not least Japanese and Spanish have less information per syllable compared to Chinese and Vietnamese, so basically languages tend to transmit more or less the same amount of information in the same amount of time.

@dennissanchez4121 Жыл бұрын

Anything 190 words per minute and above doesn´t even sound like an intelligible language anymore. What´s the hurry with spitting out your words so fast?

@gmtbird677 Жыл бұрын

Dennis Sanchez: Agreed. I thought the purpose was to understand people, but if it is a race to finish a sentence I do not really care what is being said. Videos like this are defeating in my view. I already know that some Spanish-speaking people speak quickly. I betcha I could speak English quickly as well despite the syllable/second ratings here. What does that prove? That I can speak faster than someone who is not a native speaker can follow. Oh. Lucky me.

@MauraSpringSpanish Жыл бұрын

The more practice you get, the less intelligible it'll sound. I promise. =)=)=)

@MobWave Жыл бұрын

I've been learning Spanish for about 4 years and put a lot of time into it and can say that even the 250 words/min was perfectly intelligible especially with the clear accent that was used. I've spoken with people that speak considerably faster and less clearly (mostly people from Spain)

@RT-zn2yd Жыл бұрын

@@MauraSpringSpanish lololol truth!

@luisorozco4370 Жыл бұрын

Believe me, most Spaniards speak faster than Maura's level 3! And I think this also applies to the Dominican Republic and Cuba. And in every country in Latin America, you'll also come across individuals who speak super fast.

@jorgeluisneirarobles Жыл бұрын

Muy interesante, desde ecuador te puedo comentar que tenía otra percepción, o al menos evaluaba la complejidad de entender a otros por la cantidad de palabras "distintas" o como las pronuncian. Según yo, los ecuatorianos hablamos rápido jaja, pero realmente es que tenemos una forma distinta de hablar (incluso dentro del mismo pais). Personalmente se me hace fácil entender a todos, excepto a los chilenos 😅

@personarandom15 Жыл бұрын

I'm a native Spanish Speaker and we Don't speak that fast. We don't speak slow or fast just in a normal velocity. Perdón si algo esta mal escrito, todavía estoy aprendiendo inglés. Muy buen videoo❤❤

@eddieonthegotravel Жыл бұрын

Entender a las personas que hablan rápido me ayudará cuando viva en Barranquilla.

@SKBrook60 Жыл бұрын

Ahora hace 6 meses que vivo en España, y por fín puedo entender el Level 3!

@smkh2890 Жыл бұрын

I'm on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia, and I'm amazed at how much Spanish language I hear every day! There must be some special tourism promotion in Spain that brings them here! And yes, they natter on fast! I just catch anything that is similar to Italian.

@dmpase 11 ай бұрын

Level 1 was doable for me with 100% comprehension. Level 2 I could still pick up 90% percent of the words and 100% of the ideas communicated, all without reading the subtitles. Level 3 was a challenge. I would lose the thread, pick it up again a few words later, only to lose it once again a few moments after that. I learned Spanish in Madrid and Northern Spain, but I understand nearly all you say without difficulty.

@TheRealGuille Жыл бұрын

Finally a class where i feel smart 🤓( i was born and raised in Argentina) 🤣🤣

@elvdell5582 Жыл бұрын

The thing I always find funny... In English when you encounter someone that does not speak the language natively, and they indicate they did not understand you, the natural response is to slow it down VERY MUCH. To the point where you are over enunciating every word. But when I speak Spanish in a natively Spanish speaking country, when they see you do not understand them completely, it seems the response is usually to just repeat the same thing at the same speed. Usually with the second iteration you can pick up a little more because your brain has processed already half of what you heard, and on the second pass you can get a few more words, but I always found that interesting. Primarily in Colombia. In Mexico they tend to sympathize more I think with the Spanish challenged. But in Colombia, it's like no mercy LOL. Speaking of which I love Colombia. I progress the most there in my language learning journey. To answer the question, I could follow speed 2. At 3, I not completely lost, but would have to listen multiple times to get most of the words. This was a very good video.

@alfredgomez3128 6 ай бұрын

This is what I hate about learning this language. Too many natives used to fast talking, using slang and shortcuts that aren't universal, and may not be aware of. Lots of Spanish talking, even for preschool shows, sounds way closer to 2 and 3, whereas I'm barely at 1. My only solace is finding slow speaking Spanish on here, to then graduate to children tv level.

@JaceTez Жыл бұрын

I am Mexican/Argentinian and my dad is Greek and Spanish we speak super fast and loud lol.. even the fastest was still slow to me... I should make a video on my Spanish its super fast sounds like mummble to most people but when speaking to my family its normal... this is why I love language its so diverse and just fun to learn about

@t.c.bramblett617 Жыл бұрын

It makes sense that the Vietnamese and Mandarin are somewhat slower since their languages are highly analytic with each syllable and its tone acting basically as a whole word. The more inflecting a language is, the more likely it will be spoken slightly faster. Japanese is kind of an outlier since it isn't very inflectional but it is mora-timed.

@jaimix31792 Жыл бұрын

😢i was holding on for dear life at level 1. necesito practicar mas

@danielsegovia1553 Жыл бұрын

Increible el video, me salio a la hora de almorzar y lo ví, entretenido, curioso, e informativo, solo que considero que aun hay más niveles de velocidad sin que sea forzado o rapeando jajaja

@Xatarino Жыл бұрын

very good

@fernandogallegos6257 10 ай бұрын

Hola Maura, podría entender nivel 3 pero esto requería un escucha muy cuidadosa.

@jojofanatico6928 Жыл бұрын

as a chilean, we speak the hard spanish. if you want to learn spanish the hard way, go to Chile. our spanish is faster and harder to understand because we use a lot of words from quechua and mapudungun, native lenguages from here, and also we use a lot of idioms and shortcuts like not saying the "s" and "d" in the words.

@cristianstark9411 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget that we are el mejor país de Chile tb 😂😂😂