I have a question for all who are long term on the island or native... can you tell if a Canarian is from the North, or Santa Cruz or Los Cristianos - are there different accents on this small island of Tenerife ... I presume there are differing ones for each island ?
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I dont think theres much variation. I know that each island is slightly different, and there are differences in some words, but its not much. Its probably more along the lines of urban / rural than specific area. But, i wouldnt know too much about that. I base this on just the fact that ive never noticed a huge difference between south american and canary islands spanish, so i assume that theres even less difference between the islands.
An excellent post,
I have lived in the Granadilla area for 3 years now, we speak reasonable canarian, but we have a few old neighbours that we can not understand a single word from, the younger generation tend to speak a little slower maybe than the older folk. anyway canarian is a lovely language, i believe a lot more relaxed that spanish, catalan etc
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I sat at a meeting recently with three Argentinians - it did sound different to me than what I hear native Canarians speak ... had to ask my friends to speak "real" Spanish so I could understandOriginally Posted by leafar
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I love the canarian language compared to spanish, and i find it much easier to understand. when i moved here i was seeing a man who was born and brought up in la orotava and when i spoke to others from the south i was asked if i'd learnt the language in the north so i guess there are slight differences in accents, maybe leafar can tell us more and thanks to leafar for the phrases, more of these would be greati can speak a bit of catalan too but that's another completely different language.
Lets not go totally overboard and consider a few handfuls of words that differ in context as being a language in it´s own right because that would be a gross exaggeration.
Canarian Language indeed............................pfft
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PeterRayner (10th July 2009)
I consider it more a local dialect or accent rather than a separate language
The more I hear it the more it reminds me of the Yorkshire dialect compared to Standard English.
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