How many native speaker dialects can you recognize?

[zimaane]

In the case of Spanish in Spain, the “prestige” accent happens to be a regional one, that of Old Castille and officially centered on Valladolid (people from Ávila or Salamanca sound very similar, the tiny differences are more in vocabulary than pronunciation); the prestige dialect is the same as that regional one minus one grammatical peculiarity called laísmo. One funny thing about living in Valladolid was that, while people always sounded like TV newscasters or actors speaking in so-called “neutral” accents*, their laísmo came and went depending on how relaxed they were. Planning meeting, no laísmo. What did you bring for lunch, can I try it? Laísmo aplenty. They were code-switching, but in their case the leap involved by the switch was more of a half-step.

The laismo thing is interesting. I had been vaguely aware of it, thanks for bringing it to my attention.