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FIRST !
Enough with the “first” crap. kthxbai.♥
Maybe if you use proper english people will listen.
True, True. And WPM = Words Per Minute, for those that do not know
Wow, thanks for that brilliant bit of insight.
You forgot the “fine print” in radio ads.
I was thinking the same thing.
Have you ever heard the fine print in Spanish radio ads? Makes my head hurt.
french tv is even faster! childrens shows in french are impossible to listen to, and the words in french ads go by too fast to hear…
Ignorance is bliss….. *Wonders…
I didnt kno that
LOL oh so true XD
We spanish guys talk so damn fast tho
Yes we do!
Un saludito desde Madrid
I guess 400 wpm is for average speed speaking spanish people?
I know some spanish and i didnt understand a word when I was in Spain last month!
not really, I see Americans talking faster than me all the time! Some of the Cubans or Puerto Ricans I know do talk really fast though!
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(Seriously, is it so difficult to make labels for your axes?)
For those of us who are native Spanish speakers, TV/radio programs in other languages (English, German, anyone) are over 400 wpm too!
Yes, I speak spanish as well and when I watch a show in some other language i keep thinking that they talk too fast. and when I watch Spanish shows they don’t seem to talk fast at all.
Syllables per minute
Phonemes per minute
Words per minute
not the same thing. Spanish is definitely faster in syllables per minute, it’s the nature of the language. Phonemes and words per minute, not sure.
Well Other languages yes, but English seems slow.
It had to do with the way sentences are constructed, the meter of speech and breath. While I sometimes get bad vibes from people who make too many racial jokes, this one is innocent enough and has some truth to it. The spanish language has longer sentences , that means you have more to say in one breath (the length of a sentence). The result is that Spanish speakers naturally speed up when speaking. It’s also effected by vowel sounds, although I have totally forgotten how. Compared to English, however, where sentences are short or broken up by a number of commas. Of course our language sounds slower.
Then, of course, the fact that you’re listening to a program where the language isn’t fully familiar is going to make the speakers sound as if they’re speaking rapidly anyway.
Only south of the Mason-Dixon line.
lol. I’m sure that’s true. But if you’ve ever lived anywhere that has signs in both Spanish and English, you’ll notice that the Spanish signs are much longer than the English signs. So to transmit the same amount of info in the same time, you literally DO have to speak more rapidly.
That said, my most commonly used Spanish phrase is ‘please speak more slowly.’
Absolutely this is the case. Bilingual Spanish-English speakers joke about it all the time. One phrase in English that has maybe five or six syllables takes twelve and a half minutes to say in Spanish. So, put all those words into a thirty-second spot and you really do have to kind of rush through it. Especially when a commercial or a show is dubbed from English to Spanish. It’s a hassle more than anything else.
But we do talk really freaking fast.
I was gonna say, anything that isn’t your native language sounds super-fast when you hear it spoken by a native speaker who isn’t slowing down for you. LOL
Though oddly I did find when I was learning Chinese, that Chinese TV was not *too* hard to understand. The fact that it’s a tonal language makes the individual words way easier to hear once you’ve got that part down.
Yeeaaahh. Only if you don’t speak Spanish.
this seems really xenophobic to me… you can’t call Spanish speakers annoying or over-the-top or whatever this is implying, just because they’re not speaking English at the time.
He’s just saying he can’t follow
Which I agree with after seeing a mexican version of the Nanny or some such, yay subtitles
I’m pretty sure the only implication here is that… oh, hey, THEY TALK REALLY FAST
All the graph maker is saying is that Spanish speakers speak very rapidly, especially in Spanish TV programs. And, as someone whose second language is Spanish, that’s very, very true. Making a valid observation about another culture is NOT xenophobic; eg, saying that many Canadians speak French is not xenophobic.
When I went to Spain, I understood most of what was said to/around me, but it did seem quick. Interestingly, I noticed that the group I was with started speaking very quickly in English after a day or so, like the speed caught on
I’ve seen this before. Repeat.
It’s missing Gilmore Girls at about 350 WPM.
Hehe, was looking for this comment
and then matt bellamy breaks the charts.
They talk at 100wpm on your porn channel?
actually on you porn channel they just say “aaahh aahh” wich is close to child tv (teletubies) 1wpm and at the end they always ask for more, like teletubies
Least I’m not the only one who thought that when I got to “adult TV” lol
Pshh not really…is just that our language is more complex
Um, Six, from Blossom, anyone? She’s gotta be up there around the 400 wpm mark
It only seems fast because native english speakers lack the phonemes used in spanish (and other languages) so we are unable to distinguish where one word end and another begins.
Once again, Gilmore Girls has been neglected.
You should add “TV show Gilmore Girls” with 600 WPM
Ironically, German tends to have longer sentences when translated and written out, but that doesn’t seem so fast.
Also, Italian seems to share this trait of ‘this is being fast’ with Spanish. But i think that is also due to Italian people as portrayed in Hollywood are often fast speakers, even when not speaking Italian.
I thinl actually part of it has to do with the fact that in English and German, a lot of the sounds seem slurred when spoken too fast, whereas languages like Italian and Spanish (and Japanese for that matter) seem to flow together a bit better, they don’t have some of the consonant combinations that slow us down.
Are you telling me that I talk in qwerty?
400 wpm until someone makes a GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
Win.
And i thoguth that rapcore, like Zebrahead, was fast…
But… I speak my native language even faster than they sing =P
I think the Children’s TV should be a little higher… I remember the old micro machines commercials…
lolz, so true, I can’t even say gibberish as fast as them
Don’t for get about those new jerseyians…800 wpm
There should be a seperate column marked “Gilmore Girls”.
You americans are just jealous of our superior talking speed.
“Llama me’ a 1-800-000-0000 pada ayuda en tu problemas legal”
you forgot to add gillmore girls with 2448 wpm
Come on, we don’t talk that fast (Yeah, right)
I’m probably from the spanish-speaking country where people talk worst, weirder and faster than any other (Chile) … not that I feel proud of the way we speak