Why is spanish so annoying

They will light up. Right there at the table. In a closed room. It will fill up with smoke, your eyes may be streaming, your unprepared respiratory system may start to convulse in distress. And nobody will give it a second thought. You have been warned.

Disclaimer of sorts : I admit, I was scraping the barrel when I wrote this post… the positives of hanging out with Spanish folk far outweigh the negatives.

I gather from other blogs that, in many countries, new arrivals, especially those who are longer in their early twenties, tend to find it hard to enter into rewarding friendships with locals. As an aside, the old stereotype that Spanish people are notoriously unpunctual, is, in my opinion, totally unwarranted. People may, on occasion, be a few minutes late. I may be a few minutes late. Noting out of the ordinary. The bizarre thing is that the Spanish seem to have internalised this belief about their chronic unpunctuality, and are highly apologetic about this perceived shortcoming — particularly those, it seems, who are rarely late themselves.

Most interesting about the low birth rate in Spain, I had always thought the country was littered with kids! Like Liked by 2 people. Yes, because they take them everywhere! Like Liked by 1 person. Haha haha, the first one…. Like Like. The talking loudly one is a real annoyance. And I think it might be spreading.

That or my ears are getting more sensitive! As for the kids one, it can be a joy when you are a parent of young ones. It was the big thing that drew me back to Spain regularly when my daughter was young.

And it was a joy to be in Spain, able to take her anywhere, and to have plenty of other young children around who would entertain her and play with her. Of course, I still love Spain, and I think you are right about the friendliness — I always feel welcome and relaxed.

Like Liked by 3 people. When I was in Spain, not only do they let the kids stay up late, the Spaniards do not tend to discipline their children. Funnily enough, when I first moved to Germany I was amazed by how many smokers there were. Yes, things have improved! And most now smoke on the balcony rather than in their living rooms and kitchens.

When I went to Barcelona, I was amazed by the volume in restaurants and bars… I know a couple of Spanish girls and they do talk loud, I must admit. However, the locals in the south of France are also highly vociferous — particularly my neighbour Gargamel and his family who yell constantly, having apparently never learnt to speak to anyone located less that 50 yards away. He even yells in his sleep. France is also similar to Spain for the evening child predicament — they tend to flake out on the sofa or on a hamac in the garden until the parents have finished.

On the other hand, the majority of families only have that kind of evening at the weekend so that their kiddos can sleep in the next day although some to tell you how hard it was for their child to get up for football practice at 8 am the next day…. Gargamel must be the exception, haha. I had expected you to comment on the smoking… seems to me like just about everyone smokes in France!

Find that they all look strangely similar to the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. Spain sounds very much like Italy, have Spanish children dark bags under their eyes from the late nights like Italian kids??

The only difference I can see is the Italians wave their arms about when they are shouting erh talking.

We should do a comparative country study. Oh, and valium…. You reckon??? We have a Spanish exchange student. But I love her loudness otherwise. Very lively! Yeah, but you see, finding something and making no effort to return it to its owner is not regarded as stealing. Unless you know the owner. Maybe you need to move south. I found Spanish so annoying because of the c sound!!!!!! It can be normal if th sound exists in your language. That only occurs in Spanish from Spain the z is also pronounced like this.

If you don't like it, just always pronounce the "c" and "z" like "s"; just like every other Spanish speaker not from Spain. I just generally have trouble with some words in Spanish, but even in English my native language I have trouble with knowing when to use the soft and hard sounds lof letters, but yes, you are not alone, I have trouble with Spanish c's as well. It tries to strip the language from all the regional stuff it's a bit more complicated than that but you can read more about it yourself if you're interested.

In terms of pronouncing "c" when it's not to be pronounced as "k" of course , its rule is that "s", "c", and "z" are all pronounced as "s". Well c followed by an I is not exactly a th sound ,,, that th sound you are referring to is pronounced around Z like in Razon and that too only in spain ,, the c sound you are referring to like cinco, cero, cocina etc. Is a slight lisping sound but certainly not a th sound ,, may be we can call it a very subtle th or ts sound ,,, but u don't need to worry about it ,, as long as your sentence construction is in order and your sentences are grammatically correct and your syllable stress is correct you will be understood quite allright.

Now I intend to finish the tree. My problem is, I don't like the way French sounds sometimes actually a lot of times. All the nasal stuff and pronunciation that tortures the vocal cords the R sound, especially. To each their own, I know, but I just don't understand how anyone can say this language sounds beautiful.

Sorry if this offends anyone. I wouldn't say it's "annoying", but Chinese doesn't really appeal to my ear. Maybe it's the fact that it's such a tonal language and I'm just not used to it.

The school where I work used to teach an introductory course and I made it a point to learn to say 'hello' in every language our program taught. I still remember "ni hao" but that's all I ever learned. I don't think of languages as annoying, because it's not good to have a negative mindset when learning languages. I don't think any languages are particularly annoying Well, actually, French annoys me most of the times I hear it haha. Well I don't know it yet.

I don't know that I'm particularly annoyed by any language. I personally think that both German and Chinese seem very harsh - the speaker always seems to sound angry to me. To be fair though, I may think that about Chinese because most of the Chinese I have heard was from a lady who lived behind us and was always yelling at her husband. I guess the thing I find most annoying is when I hear a language that I can't identify.

And going to get my nails done and all of the ladies are speaking Vietnamese the entire time yet can speak English just fine to customers.

It really makes you feel like they are talking about the customers and is unprofessional. Harsh or magnificent? Harsh or adorable? Your response is biased and faulty. You gave two positive outlooks on the German language I assume both are German but then gave one about the English language which is demeaning and foul, thus trying to prove your point I see, but it is still basically generalizing the whole language to one incident in the English language.

Why, with your logic one could fire back at you with a video of Hitler or the Nazi army saying "Heil Hitler! You might like to look up some Mandarin, Cantonese, and German music on sites like YouTube to hear the languages without angry yelling.

French and Spanish. I actually really like French, but the people that learn it as a second language tend to be snobby and pretentious, just waiting for you to make the slightest mistake, so they can correct you.

And I can't stand the sound of Spanish Mexican Spanish sometimes, because of the racism I've experienced from certain Spanish speakers growing up. It then makes me irrationally angry listening to them speak. Spanish is the ugliest language in the world by a mile. Too many rolling R sounds and incredibly repetitive word endings make this a nasty language to learn and speak, because it sounds like a person choking on their own shit.

I've been studying it for 11 years and I've decided I'm never ever ever going to speak this low life abomination that calls itself a language.