A few months back there was some discussion about local(new Mexico) Spanish people saying they couldn't understand the Mexicans from Mexico . Another member said I didn't know what I was talking about and that Spanish and Mexican was one in the same . Well it's not a topic that a whole lot of research has been published on. Not that I could find anyway. So I did the next best thing . I ask this on yahoo answers ,
I have only used the first letter of each of the peoples names that answered .
And here are the three best answers ,
"Why do Spanish speaking people say they can't understand Mexican speaking people and vica versa ?"
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Simple. Because Spanish speakers who grow up here have actually destroyed the real Spanish. So often they literally translate the way you say things in English into Spanish. Also since they usually learn it at home, they have tons of grammatical mistakes (written and speaking). It sounds like another language....its sad to see how even some Spanish radio/TV hosts speak it like they did not even went to elementary school.....
To give you an idea, in Spanish to ask for your age we literally say : how many years do you have ? instead of how old are you.....Would you like to hear any English speaker ask you that way ? Tha's what they do with spanish...
by F.
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I think that maybe them people dont speak the best of the spanish or they were not raised on the spanish. Why do i say that?
Because i practise spanish and I can understand mexican spanish good but when i listen to the univision television station sometimes i cant understand some things they say because they seem to use words i havnt heard of and maybe have a little different accent.
So i think its because of different words and accents and i think that them people you are talking about might not speak the best spanish themselves is some of the reason why they dont understand it.
Somebody who speaks the best of spanish might would understand cuban spanish though.
By A.
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Well you see, even though im Mexican i sometimes find it hard to understand other Mexicans. Not all of us speak the same way even though it is tecnically the same language.
It varies from every city, region, state, country and so on. We have different slang words and accents.
Now in an utopical situation where we are all very well educated, we should understand each other. Missunderstandings usually happen when someone starts using a lot of slang terms in places where people are not familiar with them.
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oh well i should finish my rant there
please excuse my funny English, Spanish is my 1st language
hope it helps
By M.