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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5112 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 12 12 October 2013 at 8:15am | IP Logged | ||
I just saw an interview with him and I do not understand how you can say that he struggles with Spanish. He pronounced a hell of a lot more "s" than I would in my Andalusian dialect, but apart from that he sounds absolutely native to me. There are a lot of different accents within Spain, but I would not have thought twice about declaring him a native Spanish speaker. What specifically did you feel he was struggling with? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| oziohume Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4516 days ago 30 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan, Italian, French, German Studies: Dutch | Message 10 of 12 12 October 2013 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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He comes from Mutriku, Gipuzkoa, and I know for a fact he is a native speaker of Basque.
He didn't start learning Spanish until he was older. Besides having a strong accent as you say, he has problem stringing together phrases. Here you can see him talking he´s native language where you can see the difference with him speaking his second language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZnGLZ1v8xs Regards 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5231 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 11 of 12 12 October 2013 at 1:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've watched a couple of Youtube interviews with him in Spanish, and I can't say that he seems to have much more
trouble stringing together sentences and answering questions than other footballers in similar situations. I don't doubt that he's native speaker of Basque or that he didn't learn Spanish at home nor that he feels more comfortable speaking Basque than Spanish, but I haven't seen any evidence that he is actually struggling in Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6453 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 12 of 12 13 October 2013 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||
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As far as I know,Illaramendi speaks Spanish like a native speaker with a basque accent.
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