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How To Speak Perfect Mexican Spanish
How To Speak Perfect Mexican Spanish
  1. get the pronunciation down, especially vowels
  2. understand when and how to roll R, even single Rs
  3. listen to mexican spanish music, tv, movies
  4. make mexican friends for vocab
  5. imitate sounds / patterns of speaking
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How To Speak Perfect Mexican Spanish
How To Speak Like A Mexican (The Mexican Accent)
How To Speak Like A Mexican (The Mexican Accent)
  • say "mizmo" instead of "mismo"
  • vowels (mostly e) disappear between consonants and 's', eg. "pastas" becomes "pasts", "es que" becomes "sk" "sk no puedo hacerlo"
  • ll/y can be pronounced as 'y' or 'j' (not sh like in argentina)
  • x/j may sound like an h on the coast
  • inlands x/j could sound "kh" inland
  • when excited, e at the end of the word may sound like i

SUFFIXES

  • add -ote/-ota to mean it's really BIG, eg. tienes una cabezota.
  • to be affectionate or to make something small, add -ito/-ita
  • in the north, -ito/-ita might change to -illo/-illa.
  • uco(a)/-ucho(a) when something is bad or ugly or not good
  • azo/-aza really cool really good, eg. football goal is golazo!
  • ón/-ona means this person has whatever is attached (in a big way), eg. nalgona girl with a big butt (las nalgas = booty)
  • Mexicans add 'le' to a lot of their commands / expressions, doesn't mean anything
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How To Speak Like A Mexican (The Mexican Accent)