• teft@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    This was one of the weirdest things I had to learn when I was learning spanish. The sounds are much faster but the information density was similar. For me as an english native speaker it felt like I was listening to a machine gun at first. Eventually I trained my ear and now both languages sound the same speed.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      This is also why, to me, rapidly spoken natural Spanish and Japanese sound oddly similar if I hear it out of “the corner” of my ear, so to speak.

      Which is funny cause I kinda speak Spanish lol