Re: THEORY: Spanish was Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:

> God, i would have a hard time trying to understand that! It was hard
> enough trying to understand the video with the sevilleno! I have also
> noticed that Spanish of the Latin American countries tends to be a bit
> harder than Castillian Spanish. Castilian Spanish is a little softer and
> sounds a little different ( those of you who have heard it know what i'm
> talking about). I do also like the Argentine way of pronouncing elles and
> y as a "zh" sound (i have noticed this with some Colombianos).
The "Madrilenno hiss"?  For example, "Calle de Printhipe dhe Vergara XX,
Ascensores Idhquirerdha, dos-ocho-thero-thero-dos, Madhridh" (an address).
One Argentinian instructor we had realised ll more like "ch": cho me chamo
Sra. Chavez;  another like "zh".

Padraic.

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