Why Spanish class in Guatemala didn’t prepare me for the Spanish in Chile
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Why Spanish class in Guatemala didn’t prepare me for the Spanish in Chile
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Oneika the Traveler
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Oneika Raymond
Date Accepted
12/05/19
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So why the heck can’t I understand anybody in Chile? Chilean Spanish is hard (for me). Guatemalan Spanish is slow, deliberate. Guatemalans pronounce all their letters. I got over-confident with my Spanish level.
I have been Chile for two full days now and I feel like I don’t understand anybody. I have to ask people to repeat themselves. The most commonest of phrases are unrecognizable to me because people here don’t seem to pronounce the letter “s” in words. And Chilean Spanish is fast… REALLY fast. Gone is the relaxed, slow way of speaking I have become accustomed to in Guate.
I have been Chile for two full days now and I feel like I don’t understand anybody. I have to ask people to repeat themselves. The most commonest of phrases are unrecognizable to me because people here don’t seem to pronounce the letter “s” in words. And Chilean Spanish is fast… REALLY fast. Gone is the relaxed, slow way of speaking I have become accustomed to in Guate.