Comment by guelo
1 day ago
I understand Spanish being from Latin America but for a long time I couldn't understand a single thing he said because of the Spaniard accent and crazy laughter, and I enjoyed the memes just fine. But then few years ago I watched it with the real subtitles and something clicked in my brain so now when I watch it I mostly understand him fine. But now the memes are ruined because it's hard to hear and read two speeches at the same time. Just an annecdote about our weird brains.
Just to add here that this guy doesn't have a "standard" Spanish accent. He was from Andalucía (I don't remember where exactly), a region rather known for its accent being difficult for even native speakers to understand.
Anyway after I moved to Andalucía I now can understand the story he tells, but I have to pay close attention!
I always thought this was from Mexico!
Spanish native here. Andalusian accent never was known by being difficult to understand. Have other associations, but never that it's difficult to understand.
Some Andalusian accents can be really thick, but so can be the accents from other regions. It also depends where from Spain you are from: I am from Extremadura and usually don't have any trouble understanding even the strongest Andalusian accent, but some of my Basque and Catalonian colleagues find it really difficult, but the opposite is also true.
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West Andalusia, maybe; but the Eastern accents plus Murcia are hard-drunken Irish mode for Spanish.
Is this like what Downfall is like for Germans?
German speaker, the Downfall memes strangely still work fine even if you understand the audio because he's doing inane angry rambling either way.
he is doing a deep deep Andalusian accent, plus the extra noises and laughs makes hard to understand. The normal Andalusian accent it's perfectly understandable by anyone that understands Spanish.