Non-native Spanish-speakers: do you generally find Spaniards or Latin Americans easier to understand

[Tooting Carmen]

A corollary of this thread: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...-to-understand

[Tacitus]

Totally depends on the accent. I can understand peninsular Spanish well enough but Latin American Spanish is a mixed bag. Rioplatense, Colombian, Mexican, and to a lesser extent Puerto Rican Spanish I can understand, but Cuban or Dominican decidedly less so.

[Tooting Carmen]

Totally depends on the accent. I can understand peninsular Spanish well enough but Latin American Spanish is a mixed bag. Rioplatense, Colombian, Mexican, and to a lesser extent Puerto Rican Spanish I can understand, but Cuban or Dominican decidedly less so.

That means you can speak Spanish in NYC and LA but not Miami then.

[Tutankhamun]

Spaniards. Although I understand very well what Latin Americans say, with the exception of Chileans.

[Tacitus]

That means you can speak Spanish in NYC and LA but not Miami then.

Having been around all three Cuban, Dominican, and PR Spanish share similarities, but the latter's accent is a lot less harsh than the other two IMO.

Also there are *a lot* of Dominicans in NYC it should be said. Just gotta avoid Washington Heights is all.

[Tooting Carmen]

Having been around all three Cuban, Dominican, and PR Spanish share similarities, but the latter's accent is a lot less harsh than the other two IMO.

Also there are *a lot* of Dominicans in NYC it should be said. Just gotta avoid Washington Heights is all.

When you meet Hispanics in your city or elsewhere in the US, do you speak mostly in English, Spanish or 50/50?

[Alexandro]

Not many Spaniards in the US so I would imagine that Americans understand Latinos better, more exposure. Meanwhile the Europeans might understand peninsular Spanish better, perhaps?

[Tacitus]

When you meet Hispanics in your city or elsewhere in the US, do you speak mostly in English, Spanish or 50/50?

English

[Cristiano viejo]

As a Spaniard myself I have problems to understand (sometimes) even Andalusians... let alone Chileans and other guacamayos.

[Tooting Carmen]

Not many Spaniards in the US so I would imagine that Americans understand Latinos better, more exposure. Meanwhile the Europeans might understand peninsular Spanish better, perhaps?

What sort of accent in Spanish did you have when growing up in Miami? After all, while your parents are Spaniards, would you not have also been influenced by all the Cubans and South Americans around you?