• teft@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.

    Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.

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      21 hours ago

      Donde esta la biblioteca?
      Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
      Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
      Es en bigote grande, perro, manteca

      Yea, Boiii - source

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        21 hours ago

        Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.

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          Might be because of local accent as well, I don’t speak a word of spanish but I’d be very surprised if there’s no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia

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            Nah, e is the same across most spanish accents. It’s more likely we’re just using different letters for the same sounds as i said in my other comment.

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      Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like “maymays”, you need to spell it “meimeis”)

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        21 hours ago

        Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.