Will I Be Understood?

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arn3696

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Hi

I am currently spending a lot of time in Andalucia and have picked up a few spanish phrases. I am travelling to Ibiza later this year and I was wondering if the locals will understand this dialect of spanish, as I know Ibicenan is from Catalan and Andaluz is not.

E.g. will they understand phrases such as

Que Tal?
De nada
Me llamo....
Que Pasa?
Mi Gustar.....

Thanks

Chris
 
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I come from Reading, UK, but Im living in Jerez at the moment. Id like to be able to speak the lingo! Its a good way to make yourself look a complete idiot! :D

Cheers

Chris

Playa d'En Bossa - 29th June - 5th July
 
arn3696 said:
Its a good way to make yourself look a complete idiot! :D
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U R def right!!! :lol: Please contact me before you do that! I´d like to see and hear that. I´m on the isle from june, 24th til july, 1st! :lol::lol::lol:
 
no prob

they all speak and understand basic spanish, their own dialect is just like a type of slang... dont worry has in mainland a little spanish gets you a lot of respect and smiles.:lol:
 
suepink said:
they all speak and understand basic spanish, their own dialect is just like a type of slang... dont worry has in mainland a little spanish gets you a lot of respect and smiles.:lol:
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suepink you have missunderstood a couple of facts
Eivissencs do speak and understand spanish as it's oficial language and they study it as you study english in england or french in france.
Then, they also speak eivissenc (ibicenco), it's co-official language in the island, it's studied at schools at the same level as spanish.
Eivissenc it's not a type of spanish slang, it's a dialect of catalan which is co-officila language in Catalonia.
It's a bit complicated to note the difference between all those languages if you don't understand them, but I'm catalan and sometimes I have problems to understand eivissenc ;)
 
A friend of mine lives on the island and speaks Castillian, Catalan and Ibicenco and there are cetainly differences. The fact that she can also speak fluent English, German and French makes me soooooooooooooooooo jealous.
 
For some reason I always thought that it was called Balear.....do they speak a dialect of Catalan in Mallorca that is different than what they speak in Ibiza? I really love how Spain is such a land of coutries within one country. For instance, Galicia is as different from Andalucia as France is from Italy. Different languages, different folklore.... A very cool country to experience (not just visit).... I should work for the ministry of tourism if I wasn't spending all of my holidays there to begin with! :lol:
 
Yeah, I think thats one of the great shortfalls of education in England. Foreign languages just aren't taken seriously enough. We had French lessons that, at my school, seemed like they were just there to fulfil a legal requirement. :?
It depresses me sometimes when you meet people, like from Spain for example, and they can speak many different languages and I can only manage one...badly! :)
I would love to have had the oppurtunity to learn spanish properly when I was at school.
 
silvia

i was trying to make it simple , that the ibicencos understand text book spanish...and use the ibicencan as a 2nd languge, its a little bit like the welsh they all speak english but like to chat in welsh to fellow countrymen:lol: ..but your explanation makes it very clear:lol: i wasn´t being detremental saying it was like slang ..just trying to explain it in laymens terms..
 
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suepink said:
i was trying to make it simple , that the ibicencos understand text book spanish...and use the ibicencan as a 2nd languge, its a little bit like the welsh they all speak english but like to chat in welsh to fellow countrymen:lol: ..but your explanation makes it very clear:lol: i wasn´t being detremental saying it was like slang ..just trying to explain it in laymens terms..
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you can make things simple but giving true facts. Calling eivissenc slang is a big -> 8O :? 8O
 
donjason said:
For some reason I always thought that it was called Balear.....do they speak a dialect of Catalan in Mallorca that is different than what they speak in Ibiza? I really love how Spain is such a land of coutries within one country. For instance, Galicia is as different from Andalucia as France is from Italy. Different languages, different folklore.... A very cool country to experience (not just visit).... I should work for the ministry of tourism if I wasn't spending all of my holidays there to begin with! :lol:
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Hola Don,
Balear is the dialect of catalan spoken in all the islands, and it's different depending on the island. You have Mallorquí and Menorquí which are quite similar and then you have Eivissenc that's quite different from Mallorquí and Menorquí.
The languages organisation in Spain can be a bit confusing :D
 
donjason said:
Thanks for the clarification Silvia....now if I can only figure out Valenciano...... :lol:
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Valenciano is a dialect of catalan aswell

Here is the language map in Spain:

Spanish: oficial language
Gallego: co-oficial language in Galicia
Basque: co-oficial language in the Basque Country
Catalan: co-oficial langua in Catalunya, Valencia (dialect), and Balearic Islands (dialect aswell)

:D
 
Ok just another little question

The difference between the words 'Playa' and 'Platja'

Is 'playa' Castellan and 'platja' Catalan (or Ibiceco)

Thanks

Chris
 
arn3696 said:
Ok just another little question

The difference between the words 'Playa' and 'Platja'

Is 'playa' Castellan and 'platja' Catalan (or Ibiceco)

Thanks

Chris
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yes!!! rigth:D
 
Hey Sil & Mikkak - what does Galician sound like? When I studied Spanish way back in school, we were told about the regional languages in Spain but not in much detail. I've encountered Catalan (and its dialects) and read a bit about Basque but haven't heard much about Gallego. Is it also a Latin-based language like Catalan?
 
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