Friday, December 3, 2010

Murciano

So supposedly the region of Murcia is where they speak the "worst" Spanish. As an anthroplogy/ sociology major, I won't  create  hierarchies of "good" and "bad" Spanish. I must say, the accent in Murcia is quite rugget though (in my aesthetic point of view), but I like it. Here's a little lesson in how to speak "Murciano": speak very fast, loud, and passionately, remove all the S's, with words that end in 'r', remove all the R's, and insert curse words and more slang like:

 "Acho", "tio", "hombre"- friendly word for guy, friend.

"Pijo"- "stuck up"
Bonico- from bonito , which means beautiful
Perrete- from Perro/ perrito, which means puppy
Na'- from nada, which means nothing
Pa'lla- from "para alla", which means through/ over there
Chulo- "cool"
Muncho/ Munchisimo- comes from mucho/ muchisimo, which means "a lot"

  Well, I'm probably missing a lot of other interesting and funny words, but here are a few of links that talk more about the wonderful Murcian accent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC8Qh1lKFmQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKhDI9XlGFk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1vSeL4SFU&feature=related

1 comment:

  1. How does he Murcian accent compare with the Andalusian accent? Apparently they both are loud and curse.

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