English Speaker: I have a lisp, would that make it easy to learn Spanish?
I'm English speaking and have a natural lisp that cannot be corrected without surgery. I only have problems with long "Sssss." I tried to learn Spanish in high school and found it hard, but everyone keeps telling me to try again that having a lisp will make it eaiser. By the way, my stepfather is Puerto Rican; what type of spanish should I learn to speak with him?
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No because:
(a) although Spanish people from Spain lisp the letter "z" and "c" before i and e, you still have to distinguish between the lisped sound and an ordinary s, so as not to confuse, for example "casa" house and "caza" hunt.
(b) In all varieties of Latin American Spanish – including Puerto Rican – there is no lisped z or c sound, and they are pronounced the same as an oridnary s.
That having been said, there are also many native Spanish-speakers who have a lisp, so you should not be discouraged.
no, you would have a slight lisp in spanish too…
usually school text books will teach you "proper spanish" (spain) but there are conversation spanish, mexican spanish (with a lot of swearing in it! lol) anyways, everyone will understand spanish…just slangs are different in each countries
No because in spanish u would need to pronounce the letter C with a lisp, and u would still need to be able to pronounce S without one
a lisp won’t exactly make you smarter in spannish, just go for what you’re interested in