Jonik

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Just for fun, I took a basic Spanish course early 2004 back in uni, which got me interested in the language and the places where it's spoken. In the following few years, I ended up taking most of the classes available at the language centre. They've got some awesome teachers there!

Obviously, classes only get you so far. Travelling in Spain (a few times), Cuba, Costa Rica, Panama, and Argentina has made all the difference.

It's funny how once you get to know Spanish, you hear it a lot, almost everywhere. I've met a lot of people just through speaking Spanish in unexpected places like Germany.

Often, I like to put on a slightly Cuban accent which I found gracioso

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Jun 13	comment	What accents do not use yeísmo? Yes, absolutely; I know it is standard Spanish and nothing to worry about for a student. But the rule comes up often enough that I want to know in what areas/accents the alternative (i.e. distinction) is still used, and how exactly does it sound like.
Jun 13	comment	What accents do not use yeísmo? Like I wrote, I'd like to know 1) what accents (what areas) do not use yeísmo, and 2) how exactly would speakers of such accents say words like "calle" and "yo", and yes, 3) is the distinction realised with the same speech sounds in all such accents. I probably have never heard anyone speak with such accent, and I'm curious.
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Jun 12	asked	What accents do not use yeísmo?
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Jan 15	revised	Meaning and connotations of “gringo” slight copyedit
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Dec 20	comment	What does the “lo” in “pasarlo bien” refer to? Continuation question: what does the "la" in "pasarla bien" (a common variant of the phrase, especially in Latin America) refer to? :)
Nov 19	comment	What are the main differences between Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Latin America? Of course, there are regions in southern Spain where z and (c in ce/ci) is pronounced like s. (And AFAIK even regions in Latin America where it's pronounced as th.) Nevertheless, what you wrote is a useful generalisation.
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