How do native Spanish speakers sound to each other?

Each country, and certain regions within each country have a differen accent…

There are strong regional differences both in Spain and in Latin America. The Chilenos and Argentinos that I have met will use what is almost a “J” sound where other Spanish speakers will use a Y sound, for example Joe me Jamo, instead of Yo me llamo.

In New York I noticed that many people from Puerto Rico would use a gutteral H sound instead of R at the beginning of a word such that Geraldo Rivera ended up as Geraldo Hivera,
There are lots of variations as in any wide-spread language.

SRM

This works as among the countyes.I mean if you are in some another part of Spanish speaking area you need to listnen what local people talk.

As everyone has said above, Spanish sounds different from country to country. It also sounds different in different parts of the same country. I lived in a small city in SW Spain called Cadiz for a year, and anytime I traveled to Barcelona or Madrid or Granada or wherever, people sounded totally different. Also, people could tell that I had been studying Spanish in Cadiz because of my accent- not my American accent, my Spanish accent. There are definitely big differences in regional accents there.

Definitely everybody sounds different, not only regional speakers, especially because of their educational background. (In a Robotic American Accent.)

Like the difference between American and British English, the difference is pretty apparent.

I speak Mexican Spanish, and it’s really obvious to me when someone is from South America, as their tones and method of speaking sounds more European in tone, if not from the Spanish, then the Germans, or the Dutch, or Portuguese. As srmorgan mentioned, General Latin American spanish i’ve noticed has a different sound for the letter LL, which has a sound like (yeh) in Mexican spanish, to them reads like (jeh).

Castillian Spanish, as spoken in spain sounds a lot different to me, aside from the same LL/J difference, they speak much much faster, and have a sort of lisp to the way of their speaking. And then there’s catalan, and aragonese, and that might as well be a different language.

@sinscriven
The feature of the Castilian accent (Castellano) that is most noticeable is the substitution of a “th” sound in most Spanish words that use a zeta (Z) as in manzana or zapato or a soft C as in calcetines which would sound Kalthetines.. The first C is hard and is the same in all Spanish dialects; the second c would be soft and then the S at the end of the word would sound like a “normal” S.

The other obvious difference is how the number five is spoken, it sounds like finco instead of cinco as in the rest of the Hispanic world.

Within Spain, people from Madrid (Madrilenos) would pronounce their home town like Madrith.. with the “th” actually extended such as Madrithhhh… This is not to sound like Daffy Duck saying thufferin thuccotash. It’s hard to convey the exact sound orthorgraphically.

SRM

@srmorgan
Thanks for enlightening me on that, that explains the whole sounding like a lisp thing.

That how Madrilenos say Madrid thing is going to bug me for a while, it’s the one thing google wouldn’t give me an answer to.