7 Crazy Spanish Accents from Central America

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0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Accent #1
3:59 - Accent #2
8:40 - Accent #3
11:12 - Accent #4
14:34 - Accent #5
18:46 - Accent #6
22:49 - Accent #7
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[@storylearning]

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[@hamimhashan8537]

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[@linolazo40]

Bro literally no one spezaks like that in Nicaragua, i'm French but i have now 2 years of living here and no one talks like that lmao.

[@linolazo40]

+ Americans can't even locate a random country on a map.

[@Maria-oh1nq]

They arent crazy spanish accents youre just a foreigner

[@JamieDanger]

I believe Costa Ricans also use "usted" much more often than a lot of other Spanish-speaking countries.

[@CirugiadeMano]

Nope..we here in El Salvador use Ud a lot...😀

[@isaacmonge5838]

Yep

[@isaacmonge5838]

We use it ALL the time

[@hectormejia7757]

You would be right, Costa Ricans and some Colombians always use usted

[@JamieDanger]

@@CirugiadeMano interesting - thank you!

[@stefanodadamo6809]

I had a couple Nicaraguan friends, but when these sisters chatted among themselves as an Italian with a fair understanding of Castllian I only understood some 50%.

[@SMCwasTaken]

Will you learn Spanish? Its really easy for italians and all you need is to look up words and the grammar is practically the same

[@zahleer]

I talk to them regularly and I have to admit my comprehension stays slightly above that range even when I've learned some words throughout the years. I'm native though.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

@@SMCwasTaken it's surely far easier for us, but the two languages are less "identical" then they might appear. Vocabulary is quite different due to the bazillion words of Arabic, Basque and Iberian stock, pronunciation tricky, "falsos amigos" abound, even syntaxis and use of verbal forms is different.

[@SMCwasTaken]

@@stefanodadamo6809 si, "guarda" significa "mirar" en italiano Y de eso salió la palabra "guardias" or guards in english

[@gsanchez5116]

As someone with a Nicaraguan grandma and family still in Nica I only understand them about 25% of the time lol. 50% if they’re talking at a reasonable slowed down pace. But on the street, maybe like 10%

[@Nelson_504]

Hi 👋. Honduran here 🇭🇳 . Outside of Latin America, we're the forgotten Spanish speakers, so it's kinda cool that you decided to make this video and speak on our Spanish dialects. ❤ I was a little bit sad about the last 2 videos you used as reference for Honduran slang not being from Honduran content creators though. The gentleman in the couple is Dominican American, and that's why you heard the 21:50 grammatical construction. We, Hondurans, DO NOT USE THAT AT ALL. That is such a Dominican thing to say. For that matter, we don't even use "tú" as the second person singular. "Vos" and "usted" are used instead. I find your content always very educational, and your approach is always extremely polite and respectful, but I just felt the need to clarify those points. I hope you get to read this is :). Best regards from Honduras.

[@smellyberner]

pucha maje, y yo acá escribiendo lo mismo hasta que me fijé que vos lo notaste primero, pero tu comentario está mejor que el mío

[@saskehater]

Tienes razón yo también iba a escribir lo mismo hasta que ví esto. He is right those are terms we ars hondurans do not Say.

[@SAROCMAN]

Awebo, lo mismo está pensando me llega que lo pusiste en inglés xD

[@iconic-deathdealer]

Same in el salvador

[@unkasbirdyellowhead8368]

Pensé que era el único que vio tremenda embarrada que hizo ahí el gringo, pero se entiende que él no habla de nacimiento el español y se va a confundir con todos los acentos si no hablamos regionalismos.

[@Alexendrone]

El Salvador and Honduras have very similar accents (similar to what happens between Montevideo and Buenos Aires).

[@oncho1960]

I am Honduran and our accent with Salvadoran is pretty much the same

[@gloriakadar3288]

Horrible accents.

[@oncho1960]

@@gloriakadar3288 hahaha...

[@hunabku2135]

​@@gloriakadar3288 como el tuyo, jajajaja...

[@Laumcrt]

@@gloriakadar3288why lie?

[@luis.corderob]

Saludos dede Costa Rica, toda centroamerica es hermosa y nuestra gente

[@carlosbarrios5035]

Guatemala, heart of mayan world

[@GregGarciaHouse]

Actually...

[@Aers09]

​@@GregGarciaHouseActually What kid?

[@SaeSaeyoungyoung]

​@@Aers09whatever they said let's just start speaking mam'

[@Aers09]

@@SaeSaeyoungyoung Ok lol but i don't know a single Word in mam 😅, only Kakchiquel and Poqomam. Im from Guatemala City so i don't have a lot of contact with Mayan ppl

[@SaeSaeyoungyoung]

@@Aers09 Estamos igual, they tried to teach me kaqchikel in básicos but it didn't go through.

[@lsudx479]

As a Nicaraguan, I'm told by my Mexican friends that our Spanish sounds lazy. We don't enunciate every single letter like the Mexicans. But when I spoke to a Cuban the other day in Spanish, I could understand about 75% what he was saying because Cuban spanish is the LAZIEST Spanish in the world. They mumble through more words than any other dialect.

[@EniyanValentine]

They don’t travel much then cause some southern or the southern-eastern Mexican accents sound slower- take verazcruz for instance, their Spanish almost always drops the “s” which is what Central American spanish (in general) is notorious for lol so nah, they’re not accurate lol

[@GABGAMER_Electric_Wizard]

Mentira el acento cubano probablemente sea el más rápido luego del colombiano

[@lsudx479]

@@GABGAMER_Electric_Wizard Por supuesto. En inglés, diciendo que un acento es "lazy/perezoso" no es porque hablan lento. Hablan tan rápido que no se les entiende todo de lo que dicen. No abren la boca completa y por eso es que se le dice acento "lazy/perezoso."

[@mylene_b]

Chilean Spanish is horrible as well 😂 Very hard to understand anything any Chilean says

[@user-ui2mk2no1f]

There is nothing wrong with not pronouncing the ¨s¨, in Nicaragua we do it , and they do it in SPAIN as well, especially in Andalucia.

[@alejandropadilla437]

We are all united by the word “Maje” 🤣❤️

[@zemmertevo]

Mae**

[@AlfredoEClark]

We've never used that word in Panamá and we never will.

[@lestermorales782]

En cr es mae. De hecho reconocí a un guatemalteco en un bus porqué le dijo a otro "no seas maje" 😂

[@manueldominguez7163]

En Guate prácticamente no se usa " maje" .

[@lestermorales782]

@@manueldominguez7163 se usa menos que otras palabras, pero si se usa

[@claudiarivera1379]

I am so happy you mentioned the pirates history in Honduras. My Mom would tell me about them growing up. I lived a year in her country and it was beautiful.

[@ismaelmad1]

Los australianos hablan inglés? Los irlandeses o los africanos?

[@justrelax6306Yan]

Es el acento más orrible junto con el salvador !!! Terrible cómo hablan !!

[@datboi_gfx5504]

The Panamenian accent adds so much punch to insults 🔥

[@Alejojojo6]

That's common to all Spanish varienties xD

[@The1ByTheSea]

Puchica ,ya este Ingles aprendió como hablar Centro Americano

[@josechavez-js8hx]

Wow I just forgot that word puchica I’m goito usted tomorrow with my friend 😂 thank you 🙏 a la puchica vos❤ thank you 🙏 puchica a qui viene el calor ya 😂

[@flordemariafloresmeza573]

Ni siquiera yo sé 🤣🤣🤣

[@Aers09]

​@@josechavez-js8hxPuchica is from Guatemala

[@josechavez-js8hx]

@@Aers09 si A la puchica mano gracias vos patojo , we must practice bro if not went traveling they noticed we aren’t from there

[@updown6569]

​@@Aers09jodas si aquí en honduras se utiliza bastante también 😂😅

[@JorgeJimenezkagyu]

Hello, greetings from Panama. Great video, I understand you cannot include all accents in one video but in Panama is very notable the accents of the country side, specially the region called Azuero, one feature of that accent is that it has a "singing" quality, we call it "jondeao", it also uses vos instead of tú and different words. We also borrowed words from English and French (for example "buco" from French beaucoup, it means "mucho" = a lot)

[@Estebanqr]

I'm from Costa Rica. The most difficult expression to explain in english is "Diay!!!". It has many ways to be use, but it's very dificult to traslate.

[@edufonseca5718]

Diay es basicamente un articulo mas. Tambien sus derivaciones: Deay, Yay, Di, Ydiay, etc...

[@elenafari_]

as a guatemalan it is way easier for me to distinguish south american accents than central american ones lmao. of course there are ones that are super easy like the costa rican one because of its way of pronouncing the r, but mostly the differences are very subtle. i can tell someone is a foreigner, but it is hard to pinpoint their country

[@katjerouac]

that’s because central america is like one country, not separate countries. you should know that.

[@VTRAQUEVNVMPLVSVLTRA]

​@@katjerouac Yeah, except from Panama. Panama is culturally closer to northeastern hispanic South America and the Hispanic Caribbean than it is to the rest of Central America.

[@fixer1140]

Rápido ruedan las ruedas del ferrocarril.... Ok, you got me there neighbor 🇨🇷😄

[@MICKGZ14]

Absolutely Right. It's kind of difficult for me to distinguish EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS PEOPLE CAUSE THE ACCENTS ARE SIMILAR TO ME. OUR "R" IS EASY TO SPOT. NICARAGUAN AND PANAMANIAN ACCENTS ARE EASY FOR ME... 😅

[@magjuarez7463]

In Guatemala we have a lot of different accents 😂

[@OrlandoMajor94]

.... Nicaraguan here, when you said "ACALAMBRADO" you just made me burst out laughing hahahahaha -- nice video btw.

[@dmnddog7417]

For me it was “jugado de cegua” 😂

[@The1ByTheSea]

The Nawat of El Salvador is the language of the dominant tribe :the pupils from Central Mexico .Nawat is closely related to Nahua or Nahuatl of Mexico .

[@chacmool2581]

Yeah, the Pipil were Nahuatl pupils. 😂

[@Quetzal0te]

Nahuatl (Uto Aztecan) is a North American proto native American language spoken from Idaho and Utah (Nez Perce, Hopi, Piute, etc) in the USA to Nicaragua (Cotzumalhuapa Guatemala, Cuzcatlan El Salvador, the word Nicaragua [nicaraguatl] is also nahuatl word. Pipil was a main Nahuatl language from 2000 years before the Mexica and Tenochtitlan even existed. ✌️

[@EniyanValentine]

@@Quetzal0teThat’s interesting. Can you cite any references? I’m curious now

[@Quetzal0te]

@EniyanValentine Anzik 1. Clovis Culture. Pangea to Americas. Proto Mayan. Prehistoric Americas. Mayan DNA sequencing. Glaciar Cuchumatanes. Central America geological formation. Mammoths in Guatemala. Museum of fossils in Estanzuela Guatemala. Origin of the Paleolithic Native Anericans. Prehistoric Horses in Idaho. Origin if Camels in North America. Sami People, Inuit, Eskimos and their differences with Maya, Aymara and Nahuatls. DNA of Arahuacans of Orinoco. PHYSIOGMOMY of Koreans and highland Guatemalans. Legends of the turtle boats from the west in ancient Michoacan. Similarities between Pnom Pehn (Laos and Cambodia) and pyramids in Guatemala. JUST FOR STARTES. AI will eventually prove that most scientists are wrong but there are plenty if evidences IF YOU SEARCH YOURSELF. But just logic, can you build a civilization in a glaciar or a volcanic sediments shed soils after the last Ice age? (That's why US natives only got as high as Pueblos (Anazazi) while Guatemalans had freeways over the jungle and astronomers and athematicians and cities like Athens and Rome 4 thousand years ago (see El Mirador Guatemala) Simply they had warmer climates in Central America and better soils AND LONGER TIMES to multiply. North America was just too cold. See a Google earth shot of Pacific America. The earlier coasts were by the maritime shelf and are now submerged so the evidence was washed out but they found ancient JAPANESE ANFORAS near the California coast. The asians were already coming in big waves to the north west and central America 20 thousand years ago. The US native americans are very recent immigrants from Eskimo derivated later tribes (SEE ANZICK 1 AGAIN) ✌️

[@jimjohnson724]

the nahuat syntax is where salvadoreans get their accent from

[@samaellopez5791]

Central America is a region fabulous, and I so proud to be them!! 🎉🎉 Todos somos hermanos centroamericanos!!

[@Username_03830]

As a Costa Rican it was easier for me to cope with English pronunciation because the “R” sound is pretty similar. It sounds very “ foreign” for us to hear someone rolling their r.

[@user-ui2mk2no1f]

that is funny, almost like the Puerto Ricans that can´t pronounce the Rs

[@cesarparra6025]

There is also accent and words by social class, there could be instances in which two people from the same city hardly understand each other.

[@danielperazap]

Finally a video that shows a bit of Costa Rican spanish accent. Thank you very much. Also I'm studying Japanese using your books.

[@storylearning]

So glad to hear it!

[@Aers09]

​@@storylearningBro Guatemala is the land of volcanos and it has way more earthquakes than El Salvador

[@pammviajera]

Hellooooo !! I AM THE FIRST GURL ON THE VIDEO from COSTA RICA 1:09 🇨🇷 representing my beautiful country as a MAIN CITY citizen! THANKS for using me for the video! ADD ME PEOPLE! 😊❤

[@mauricioartavia7540]

PURA VIDA COSTA RICA!!!!!!

[@The1ByTheSea]

Stories of pirates :the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua: Bluefields,Corn Island : Captain Morgan, Drake. Lastnames you still hear Morgan

[@JosueGarcia-lt9gb]

En el departamento de Gracias a Dios ( frontera con Nicaragua ) Honduras, también hablan Miskito. Nuestros indígenas hablan Lenka, Chortís. La comunidad Negra, hablan Garifuna.

[@1langueen100jours]

That's funny that people from Panama switch the syllables like that. That's actually something rather common in the French slang (fou > ouf, dégueulasse > lasdeg, for instance). And I'm disappointed to say I failed at your blindtest once again. I only got Costa Rica correct (right at the very end, with this American-like "r") and Belize with the kinda Spanglish vibe. Last time, I missed the obvious Cuba and your Venezuela pitching got me wrong so I thought it was Colombia until the last moment. However, that's a funny game to play, you'll always have me as a viewer for an "Spanish accent-guessing challenge"! Thanks, Olly!

[@storylearning]

Glad you liked it!

[@isaacsantamaria4709]

Ohhh that is interesting! I didn't know that in slang French the syllables changed too, I am Panamanian and I could only guess it comes from the times the French started building the Panama Canal. We also have a slang word which is "buco", it means "a lot", and it comes from the French word "beaucoup"

[@1langueen100jours]

@@isaacsantamaria4709 Una cosa graciosa es que una de sus antiguas vice-presidentes tenia el nombre de mi ciudad natal: Saint-Malo. Quiere decir que, yo, personalmente, tengo un monton de puntos comunes con este pais jaja me toca visitar, ahora!

[@carseramos6513]

This is also really common in Bosnian!

[@jussym09]

Interesting 😮 I didn't know that they do the same thing in french. And as far as I know, I think we (Panama) are the only latin Americans that switch their syllables like that 🤔. I think it's probably due to the migration waves of workers from french speaking countries in the Caribbean, during the construction of the Interoceanic railway and the Panama canal. In fact, some people in the Caribbean parts of Panama (especially elders) who are descendants of those immigrants, they still speak "patois" a mix of English and French (from what I'm told).

[@katjerouac]

We were a single country at one point if that wasn’t obvious 🇬🇹🇸🇻🇭🇳🇳🇮 Generally we all speak the same. Mexicans and Colombians have many accents within their country as well, but generally you can tell when someone is Mexican or Colombian. same thing goes for Central American. Naturally Central Americans have slightly different accents like in any other country but not very different. Of course in Guatemala there are indigenous communities so they have a unique accent different to the rest when speaking, but outside of that most of us speak very similarly. Not only accent but we share similar slang words and ways to say things like pisto, chucho, guirro, cipote, cabal, mire ve, nambe (no hombre), ajá (yes), we say “pue” at the end of sentences. we all say “pajilla” or “sorbete” to say straw, “huevón” is someone lazy etc. So many things that other places outside of central america wouldn’t be understand. so you can tell a central american accent but not always from where. Sometimes you can confuse a eastern guatemalan accent for a salvadoran or a salvadoran for a honduran or a honduran for a nicaraguan or a nicaraguan for a cost rican.

[@Elba.Ginon93]

Saying "naaahmmmbreeee" protects yourself from Haitian attacks

[@philomelodia]

Facts! 🇭🇳

[@mygiboxatgmail]

Totally agree with you, in my case having lived outside my country for many years I can pretty much guess their country in C.A. as long as I get enough words out of them some words are a give away like "cabal" from Guate o "pinolero" from Nica but we do use a lot of the same slang although sometimes it also points out to some areas like "chele" o "acalambrado" which has a different meaning in Guate or "chinear, bicho, jaina" which points out to an area but not a country. Dead give aways which only take but a few words to know are Mexicans, Colombians, Argentineans although Uruaguay accent I find it very similar.

[@Taekwondorocks]

Maje is the word that connects us all 😂

[@ManUtd503]

“Huevon” is also Mexican slang for lazy and every Spanish speaking county understands that word. It’s self explanatory anyways. Infact a lot of slang, if you’re a native Spanish speaker, you can kind of figure out with the context even if you’re not from the country. It’s hard for people who speak Spanish as a second language to understand the slang. Slang is also endless haha. I remember when someone asked me “mañana vas a chambear” ?and I was like what the hell is chambear but when I stood there not saying anything he said “trabajas mañana”? So chamba means job or work? I guess so but it’s Mexican slang.

[@heyitsjustme3088]

As a Salvadorean I would like to point out that the videos he showed as an example are two KZbinrs that do comedy and exaggerate the accent and should not be considered as a real Salvadorean accent. But thank you for doing a video about AMERICA CENTRAL!!!!

[@yaniacdiaz]

Yeah.. they usually get the videos from those who don't speak like the majority of the population 😅

[@heyitsjustme3088]

@@yaniacdiazyeah so weird😅🤣

[@hildamurillo9965]

❤me gustó mucho, qué tuanis 😅, pura vida desde Costa Rica 💛

[@maribelcalens6514]

Tunis es Nicaraguense.

[@leonardoaraya8520]

@@maribelcalens6514tuanis de hecho, viene de un código de guerra de un oficial salvadoreno Francisco Malespín, durante guerras centroamericanas por ahí de 1825 y 1830, consistía en cambiar unas vocales por otras y unas consonantes por otras para crear una palabra no entendible que significaba algo para los que lo usaban, así salió tuani que en el código significa bueno, o el tuanis que significa buenos, en Nicaragua es más común escuchar Tuani y en CRC es más común tuanis, no es de Nicaragua solamente, de hecho hay palabras del código que se usan solo en Costa Rica como brete, que significa traba y se usa para referirse al trabajo 🇨🇷❤️🇳🇮

[@moncr6326]

​@@leonardoaraya8520 exacto!

[@marcoestrada7569]

​@@maribelcalens6514tuanis también se usa en Guatemala jajaaja

[@Llywi01]

Sahil le xchoo'lejil Hey there! I'm from Guatemala and I'm a mayan Q'eqchi'. I just wanna say that my country is an obligation to study a mayan language. It depends where you live in Guatemala. In my case I live in Cobán and Here we spoke Q'eqchi'. So, We study Q'eqchi' from Elementary, Middle and Highschool. But... there is a problem that People feel shame about their roots. And They're not teaching their mother tongue. I'm lucky and blessed because my family spoke Spanish and Q'eqchi'. And my later father always tought about my culture. Nowadays, the second most spoken language is Q'eqchi'. It used to be Kiche and Kaqchiqel. But you know people feel shame and also others descriminate cuz they don't speak well spanish or he/she is mayan. I don't wanna be rude but I feel that Latinos are racist with their own people. And they don't accept this. They are not interested about culture and local languages and they hated the spanish crown. Anyway, it's dope to see a video about Central American's languages and spanish's accents. Greetings from Guatemala! Regards, Willy Bac.

[@0LMG]

«I don't wanna be rude but I feel that Latinos are racist with their own people» sí, para empezar vos que preferís hablar el idioma de los piratas anglosajones que desde hace 200 años nos tienen como su mano de obra barata.

[@joanodom2104]

I am absolutely fascinated with this channel. I have binged for days and I am gaining an inordinately astounding level of knowledge. @storylearning well done, you!

[@evansmith8612]

Dude I really like this video! I’m learning different LatAm accents of Spanish and this is very helpful and fun to watch. Thanks.

[@storylearning]

So glad you liked it!

[@denarbd3369]

jajaja que chistoso soy salvadoreño y me dio risa ver los ejemplos que pusieron de mi pais! jeje saludos a todos los que quieren aprender el idioma español!

[@CZPanthyr]

I did guess several of them. Pero, soy de Panama. Yup, born and raised, but in the Canal Zone, even though I spent most of my "days off" (from school) in Panama, mostly in the northern provinces, like Chiriqui, or at the beaches, like Santa Clara and Farallon, and Rio Mar. We also learned Spanish from the first grade on, with a wonderful gentleman from Cadiz. Sr. Bombero was indeed a wonderful human.

[@franmode0634]

That is so interesting. I am from Panama but I didnt lived during the Canal Zone nevertheless we obviously cover that topic intensively when I was at school. This is the first time I interact with a zonian, feels cool if im being honest (no hard feelings by the way).

[@lesteradim]

que despijes que no pudieron encontrar ningún maje hondureño hablando en Hondureño,

[@varosolo78]

Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷

[@montezumajuan8257]

This video is great. I'm Panamanian and I'm part of the Ngäbe indigenous population, speaking Ngäbe as my mother tongue. Of course, I also speak Spanish. Now, I'm learning English as my third language. It's interesting to discover that in the Ngäbe language, we have some vowel sounds similar to English phonetics. Also the mistakes we make when we're beginning to speak English like... we think that the pronunciation rules are similar to those in our native languages. That's insane! Hahahaha. saludos a todos desde Panamá. Bendiciones!

[@joshyIcarus95]

The video identified me a lot when it mentioned Panamanian words and accents. very nice!!😄

[@alvaroulate463]

Greetings from Central America, quite accurate info! Great video!

[@alexslayer2565]

Here from Nicaragua, very accurate information, your videos are golds

[@Jrocke07]

Im from Honduras.. And this is the most in depth video about central American Spanish..explained in English.. Great job 👏

[@The1ByTheSea]

The woman from Belize :Spanglish has like a Filipino entonation

[@magjuarez7463]

1. Costa Rica 2. Salvador 3. Belice 4. Nicaragua 5. Guatemala 6. Honduras 7. Panama

[@yorgunsamuray]

I liked when you put some giveaways with channel names indicating the country. That Turkish KZbin channel used for Panamanian Spanish was a total surprise for me though.

[@juanjoperez7537]

Olly, this is one of your best videos... and that is saying something.

[@LuzKeiry]

Gracias por usar mi video para explicar mejor! ❤️ Saludooos!

[@rigobertoarevalo5758]

Chocho loco! Este vídeo te quedó bien pijudo! Congrats, you’ve gained a subscriber as this video is well made and greatly educational !

[@isaccduarte9241]

🇨🇷🇨🇷loving this channel and the method to learn languages

[@kathiaponcefausto7825]

Great video ❤ as a native speaker of spanish I can understand easily all these accents and I imagine is the same in English. By the way the Olly's spanish is really wonderful

[@leomayor82]

As a guatemalan everyone sounds weird but that's how they hear us as well.

[@maribuck21]

Honduran here, hello everyone!!!

[@teodoromendez3926]

Our accent and culture is heavily americanized, its so cool to see Panama being repped! Also its “Chambon”, “chombon” has a pretty awkward meaning hahahahaha

[@juliobonilla2615]

Buen vídeo, good video.

[@metou826]

👉Just to give you a heads up for correction: From 11:12 to 11:40 that's still El Salvador, Palo Verde in Playa El Zonte 🇸🇻🇸🇻 Surf its a big thing there.

[@Chikton]

Spanish speakers will understand all accents spoken in this video. If we don't understand a word probably it's because that word is an expression, idiom or phrase.

[@yoryy25]

I am from Panamá, thank you for your video.

[@user-gy5xi7mh9r]

THANK YOU FOR THE HISTORY NOTES OF THE MEZTIZOS.

[@marioeliezercb2617]

I only will say.... The gallopinto is from Nicaragua

[@bluebutterfliees]

Gallopinto is part of the culture of many countries, but what changes is the way to prepare it. It's not originally from Nica, os Costa, or Hondu... it's just part of all of us.

[@marioeliezercb2617]

@@bluebutterfliees sorry but no u.u

[@bluebutterfliees]

@marioeliezercb2617 I'm Nicaraguan, and I'm not forcing that "gallopinto is only ours."

[@marioeliezercb2617]

@@bluebutterfliees yeah, yeah,. But gallopinto is nica

[@blancaofeliamendozamendoza2456]

❤❤😂😂❤❤ Thanks for this great video ❤❤

[@norajohns7979]

Not all Salvadorans use caliche (slang) as much, it depends on the education you receive at home, and the environment where you live. To me, sometimes it sounds funny but other times it's actually terrible. There are actually several accents in El Salvador depending on the area of the country where you live.

[@carolinahill536]

A little part of Nicaraguan history. The pirates used to travel from the Caribbean through the San Juan River and Lake Nicaragua to ransack one of the oldest Spanish cities in America, Granada. It was founded in 1524. It’s located in the western end of Lake Nicaragua.

[@ellieboa]

Wow, Panama has verlan like French! 🤯

[@bubukill1]

Panamanian here. We even constantly use French inspired words like “buco” taken from the French word “Beaucoup” to say the same meaning “A lot.” I remember having some difficulties with that word when I was learning French cause I said “buco instead of bocu” as how it’s pronounced in French.

[@jefedigital1128]

Saludos from panama🎉

[@MysticRyokan]

another really cool thing is Nawat is the southern most still spoken Nahua language, as in the similar Nahuatl the language spoken by the Aztecs, the reason for this is explained by a legend how 1000yrs ago a group fled mexico led by their leader Ce Acatl who was the exiled priest king of the Toltecs, they established new settlements in what would become the Pipil in El Salvador and even as far south as Nicaragua

[@jsphat81]

I guessed all of them correctly as an Ecuadorian. A few observations: 1:06 She's talking about this and yes, their accent sounds like Colombian (Bogota maybe?) 10:17 That sounds exactly like a Cuban accent to me. 10:37 She pronounces her R like an English speaker and her accent sounds Filipino.

[@tremendisimo]

La costarricense en mi opinión suena más de Medellín, pero también entiendo por qué dices que suena bogotana.

[@jaredtaylor4097]

Saludos desde La Isla Corn Island (Isla del Maíz),Nicaragua 👍❤✌ Amazing video

[@musicotensai]

Isla de maíz no existe. It’s Corn Island. Named after Cornelius.

[@joshdvd]

​@@musicotensailamento decirte que se llama Isla de Maiz.

[@joshdvd]

decir Isla Corn Island es redundante.

[@blancaofeliamendozamendoza2456]

❤❤❤ So cute! God bless you!

[@musicotensai]

@@joshdvd Corn Island.

[@jmc506cr]

What a lovely video, thank you for your impressions. As tico (Costa Rican) I just realized about my accent when started to travel to other Spanish speaking countries and even though it sounds similar to Colombian, the R really tells where I am from.

[@elmerr558]

I appreciate it that you teach how we speak ,as a Guatemalteco but I think you left a lot of more important words that those ones 🇬🇹🇬🇹

[@jasonthekilleryt1532]

I’m from El Salvador and i have many friends from the other Central American countries and it’s actually easy to tell where accent they are from even if they are from Honduras where the accent is kinda similar to us

[@MariaRuiz-rl8zd]

I know all of those accents because I was born in Honduras and I grew up in Guatemala, different ways to speak Spanish I love it

[@MisteriosReligiosos-6677]

Saludos desde Honduras hoy me suscribí a tu canal este es un país hermoso y Pacífico con gente amable te saludo desde la capital Tegucigalpa

[@IgorJoseUbedaMontenegro]

I usually like your videos, but when you said there were only seven accents in Nicaragua, I felt upset because I could think about at least seven accents within Nicaragua. I would also say that some of the characteristics and vocabulary you mentioned for specific countries are also true for Nicaragua. Another thing, the "dropped s" (we call it aspirated s) doesn't come from British pirates; it comes from Andalusian Spanish.

[@roeslibell1667]

Si, muy cierto!. Nicaragua tiene un acento diferente según la región. Soy de Chinandega y recuerdo cuando visité el Sauce, me costaba mucho comprender la jerga, y el acento también era diferente. Me la pase usando a una amiga de traductor dentro de mi propio país 😢. Conocimos unas amigas en una discoteca en Costa Rica y estábamos compartiendo con una amiga que era de Managua , las chicas costarricenses aseguraban que mi amiga de Managua si era nicaragüense, pero que no reconocían mi acento y me decían que era de alguna región de Colombia. Lo más chistoso es ahora que vivo en Suiza, cuando me presento con latinos, lo primero que me preguntan es si soy de Colombia. Así que ya los invite a mi país y espero que lo confirmen. No tenemos un acento específico, aunque el país sea pequeño.

[@wcmeyer]

100% tally for me. Got them all correct.

[@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt]

I love olly Richards short stories

[@lauriefranz771]

That was fun!!

[@carlosvalleguillen412]

40 something years being a Salvadoran and i have never ever heard anyone refer themselves as Salvis, not once

[@Gkg__sfgh__-fghf]

Well today is your day, because I’m almost 40, and I’ve always described myself that way. 😆

[@gerardosol1122]

salvadorean here, never heard anyone refer to themselves as "salvis" only "guanaco" or maybe even "sivarense" as a joke, as we call El Salvador "sivar" and San Salvador, "san sivar". But salvi? never. Hasta se escucha gato decir salvi

[@Just01be]

Hey! Thanks for doing that video including our beautiful country Honduras 🇭🇳

[@jonathanbatres8773]

Hi, I'm from El Salvador. Nice video 😃😃👍👍

[@gustavodiniz6156]

En Centroamérica se emplea el [ voseo ] como en Argentina, Uruguay y Paraguay. Excelente video.

[@alienlatino2945]

I can tell you that Central American Spanish is one of the most easy to understand, way easier than Argentinian or Spaniard or Venezuelan spanish. Especially easy to understand is the Spanish from El Salvador and Costa Rica. Not Panama, they speak Caribbean Spanish.

[@yaniacdiaz]

Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica! Those are the easiest ones, yes!

[@loicrodriguez2532]

17:01 Sorrry what !? It was the British who deported the Garifuna to Central América. In 1797, the “Black Caribs” or Garifuna were deported from British St-Vincent island after a series of revolts. Originally deported to Jamaica, & then to the island of Roatán in Honduras. Then they expanded along the Caribbean coast of Central America, coming to mainland Hondouras, & to Belize, Guatemala & Nicaragua.

[@kevinromero3746]

As someone from El Salvador I think our accent is one of the most neutral as long as it is on a semicasual conversation or business related conversation, the thing here is we give stuff a lot of nicknames and people sometimes speak like lazy skipping letters or repeating words when on a non business environment, like saying ay mirá vos or así va, like 4 times on the same conversation

[@David_The_Texan_youtuber382]

Yo estoy muy contento ver este video hablando sobre mi cultura.

[@hanielrivas174]

Ya somos dos

[@eduardocalix8834]

Honduras is the most amazing country in terms of variety of accents. You can travel as little as 60 kms on any direction and notice how the people speak radically different from one place to the other. They have their own words, ways to call things and even different manners and ways to do the same thing, all in a country about the same size of Bulgary or Hungary.

[@robertoguzman7096]

Algo queno tiene presio y es muy bonito cuando entiendes. otro idioma

[@muzanlover]

25:19 as being Panamanian i could relate to some things, its really fun to hear you talking about latin American accents!

[@nicklas226]

Nice video I am from El Salvador... We understand and say some words because we were a unique country years ago...

[@SanAntonioPajonal]

Que bonitas son todas las culturas!! Que bonita es la vida. 😘🇸🇻

[@javierherrera3497]

Pura vida from Costa Rica we even have different accents within the country but that's true they say people from central valley speak similar to Colombians from Bogota

[@aczibcultur]

I cannot show my accent, but I can tell you one thing: Mae, pura vida!

[@oscargantes1651]

In Panama, there are tons of different dialects that can easily be noticed and tell other people where you are from. Exactly as it happens everywhere else. Also there is Spanglish in our common day speaking: 25 cents is a /kuara/, /parkin/ is a gathering or party. And no, not many speak English or Creole. The Creole speakers locate in Colón and Bocas del Toro. Saludos desde Panamá :)

[@Q-Ball.]

Panama with the verlan is so interesting

[@gigic.5056]

I love how you pronounce Nicaragua! Bluefields was colonized by the Brits. That’s where my maternal grandpa was from. Love my country! 🇳🇮🇳🇮

[@user-dl6cm4us9e]

Excelente canal es muy interesante todo Centroamérica

[@aarongreenway756]

6/7 correct!

[@robertoa.m.3984]

The other fact is referring to local accents as dialects: they most definitely are not! We speak Spanish or Castilian from California to Patagonia, and we understand each other perfectly well.

[@smellyberner]

21:50 I’m not sure if this was an oversight since you made it clear earlier in the video that Central America uses vos instead of tú, but we certainly don’t say that in Honduras either. If anything the way people here would say that phrase is “¿cómo estás vos?” or “¿vos cómo estás?” the “vos” is generally added at the start or end even if it’s already implied that you’re talking about the other person. Other than that little mistake I did find the video and the clips you used interesting.

[@boredboar7797]

On regards to panamanian, chAmbón, not chombón, is a clumsy person or someone bad at something: Ella es chambona parqueándose en paralelo (She's terrible at parallel parking). Chombón is litteraly a big black man. Also, troca is mexican, we don't say that here. Charcot, bregar and luquiar i've never even heard in my life.

[@SniperFallen06]

También lo noté, puso varias palabras que no se usan aquí,además que dice "que sopa" en vez de "Que xopá" La sección Panameña del vídeo está mal hecho

[@mariangutierrez2629]

Charcot, como que no? Es tomar un atajo. Todos los taxistas lo hacen. Bregar es trabajar; y luquiar es ver algo, chequear algo o un lugar y eso se lo he escuchado a gente de Colón

[@AloneSitoYTTM]

En mi país chambon es como mal hecho como “Hiciste tu tarea toda chambona” ósea que la hiciste toda fea o mala 👍💀

[@javierfernandoagudelogomez1794]

Bueno la verdad, aunque todos sean entendibles, ni idea de reconocer de dónde es cada uno, de pronto mi contacto cultural como Colombiano es más con los países suramericanos, de suramérica si reconozco a cada persona con su forma de hablar y el léxico que cada país utiliza. Hay que tener cuidado porque cada país tiene sus propias regiones y en cada región se habla diferente, yo como santandereano hablo diferente de como habla un rolo, un caleño, un llanero, un pastuso, un costeño, de hecho en la costa caribe hay variedades de acentos, y absolutamente todos somos Colombianos, pero tenemos nuestra variedad de acentos, esto sucede en cualquier país del mundo creería yo

[@philomelodia]

Fíjate que con los colombianos a veces hay malentendidos gracias a la jerga centroamericana. Soy de Honduras. Tengo amigos colombianos. Se morían de la risa cuando yo les contaba cómo se arrechaba mi abuela cuando pasaban los cipotes bolos en sus carros haciendo bulla con los radios bien fuertes Cada viernes en la tarde. Es que en mi país, arrecharse quiere decir enojarse. En el tuyo, ya sabes que quiere decir. jajaja Malentendidos. Por si no lo sabes, si potes son niños o jóvenes, bolos son borrachos, y bulla es ruido. Saludos!

[@javierfernandoagudelogomez1794]

@@philomelodia De pura casualidad de la región de Colombia donde yo nací (Santander, ya no vivo allá), "arrecharse" significa lo mismo que en tu país, en Santander tiene tres posibles significados: 1. Ponerse bravo, ejemplo: Ese tipo se arrechó cuando le cortaron el agua porque si la había pagado. 2. Una persona con cualidades o fuerza sobre humana, ejemplo: Que vieja tan arrecha, levantó ese bulto ella sola. 3. Algo muy difícil de hacer, ejemplo: Esa joda está muy arrecha mano, ninguno de nosotros fue capaz de hacerlo. Pero si en general tienes razón, en el resto de Colombia la palabra "arrecho" tiene es una connotación de tipo sexual

[@vanessayurrita3724]

Awesome video! Thank you for talking about central america. Usually people only speak about south american countries😢. Right one point. Here in Guatemala we also use the word vos! Saludos de una chapina! 😊

[@coffee1814]

I have never heard of some of these languages before so interesting

[@Trancymind]

And yet there around 4 million salvadorans living in USA.

[@adam-edtorres2260]

​@@TrancymindCan you cite the source? I was under the impression it was closer to 2.8 million.

[@Trancymind]

@@adam-edtorres2260If you count the salvadoran descendants than that number really rises up. More like 5 million or even 6 million.

[@evelyndemichiels1420]

I m Salvadoran, I live in Andalucía,Spain. Very hard to understand Andaluces haha. I am learning French with your method. Short stories in French and teach yourself!

[@robertoj.alvarado3802]

Hey que ondas maje!! Greetings from Honduras