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Farkmaster said:
He sounds like a bog standard Spaniard speaking English, except he is a much more advanced speaker than most.

Chiesa sounds like an Italian. Slot sounds like he might be dutch. It's all very difficult to wrap my head around.
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Mad how Guardiola is Spanish, has an accent but is easy to understand. It’s almost as if having an accent is not the only reason someone can be hard to understand.
 
Judge Jules said:
All languages sometimes use what's known as "elision" (the partial or complete omission of particular letter sounds to help spoken language run more fluently) but Spanish does it more than most and this carries over into the way native Spanish speakers speak English (and, I would assume, other languages). For example I also find Arteta quite hard to follow at times.
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French has a lot of this.
 
Dreambeliever said:
Mad how Guardiola is Spanish, has an accent but is easy to understand. It’s almost as if having an accent is not the only reason someone can be hard to understand.
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Guardiola makes subject-verb errors all the time. He's still a very good speaker, he's probably right around the same level as Rafa.

When it comes to listening comprehension it takes two to tango.
 
tomasjj said:
French has a lot of this.
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It does, but that's known to be part of the language. My Spanish isn't at the same level, but my impression is that with Spanish this kind of thing is less formalised and so (for me anyway) harder to follow. I generally find French folk speaking English easier to follow than Spanish folk doing it - both have an accent but I find the French one usually more consistent.
 
Athens said:
I have been to Greek classes and I could spot the French speakers by their accent in Greek. Other languages weren't as easy to spot, some not at a
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Judge Jules said:
It does, but that's known to be part of the language. My Spanish isn't at the same level, but my impression is that with Spanish this kind of thing is less formalised and so (for me anyway) harder to follow. I generally find French folk speaking English easier to follow than Spanish folk doing it - both have an accent but I find the French one usually more consistent.
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Good moaning. I shall sey dis onlee wance.
 
Woland said:
This is genuinely the first time I've heard anyone say they think Rafa is difficult to understand. He just sounds like a Spanish dude who knows good English. I think I'm probably less easy to understand than him
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He didn't just say that, he said he was a "poor speaker."
 
Like one of those ones on you thought you got on offer in Costco but when you get home and Google it they only scored 2 stars on whathifi.
 
Noticed Chiesa isn’t in Italy squad so will get a good 2 solid weeks at the training ground with Slotto
 
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