Why do Colombians have the easiest accent to understand? the answer is we don't have it. And I'm going to tell you why.
Why do Colombians have the best accent or the easiest accent to understand?
It is a good question but no.
It's not that we have the easiest accent to understand.
What happens is that there is a psychological phenomenon called the
mere exposure effect. It claims that the more we expose ourselves to something else
The more we will develop a preference towards that.
We develop a taste or a preference towards something and in this case
we develop a facility towards something. We find things easier to which we constantly expose ourselves by
example in my case I am Colombian and many of the television series or
films that I listen to have Spanish from some Latin American country:
Colombian or Mexican or Venezuelan whatever.
When I was a child, I grew up listening Venezuelan and Colombian soap operas, The Simpsons
for example They were dubbed into Spanish in a studio in Mexico.
I was exposed since I grew up to the Mexican accent with shows like El Chavo del Ocho.
However, at no time in my childhood do I remember have seen or heard tv or radio shows
with the Spanish accent from Spain.
Now when I listen to a movie or series that is spoken or dubbed into Spanish from Spain it really takes a lot of work to understand
Although it is Spanish. I speak Spanish but I have a hard time understanding that type of Spanish.
For some people it may be easier to understand the Spanish of Spain
than Spanish for example from Chile or from Venezuela.
In fact so much so that when I watch Spanish TV shows I have to use Spanish subtitles because
I really don't understand them.
I understand a Spanish person when he speaks to me in person when there is a meeting
and I hear a person who is talking to me face to face, but in the
television or in the movies really for me it's very difficult to understand the Spanish accent of Spain.
Does that mean the accent of the people from that country be more difficult?
no. It's not like that.
It simply means that I have not been exposed to that type
of accent and that is why it seems harder to understand.
Something similar happens to me with English.
At school I started Study with textbooks from the United States.
Or my teachers spoke with an accent of Some state of the United States.
I rarely heard the English accent let alone the Australian and now when I listen
to television series in English and they are from England or Australia
I don't understand much.
It is English but it is a different accent.
I don't understand it much because I almost never or never expose myself to that type
of accents.
It does not mean that they are more difficult or more complicated than the
United States English.
My exposure time to these accents has simply been minimal.
So in conclusion the Colombian accent is not easier than the accent
Peruvian or Mexican accent.
It is simply a type of accent.
A kind of musicality And you also have to keep in mind
that in Colombia there are many many types of accent.
So you don't have to be so general But well anyway, as US English is
easier to understand for me and Spanish from Spain is
harder to understand for me I want to know what is the accent in Spanish
that is easier to understand for you.
Let me know in the comments.