# Most prestigious dialect of Spanish, which is also useful in the U.S.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 25, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-prestigious-dialect-of-spanish-which-is-also-useful-in-the-u-s/659341 "2013-05-25T20:42:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-prestigious-dialect-of-spanish-which-is-also-useful-in-the-u-s/659341/21 "2013-05-27T07:37:04Z")

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> [@aNewLeaf](#):
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> And Iberian Spanish makes you sound like the BBC.

[Which](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Q4khiSlpU) [Iberian](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYiaTYvnqS4) [Spanish](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Le6loSnHQ)? Note that most of those people have “softened” their original accents, but yeah, I picked the first one completely on purpose. (Buenafuente is Catalan, El Sevilla is from a small village next to Seville, Sabina is from Úbeda but best known as “Madrid’s poet”, The Great Wyoming is from Saragossa, Rosana from the Canary Islands and I don’t know where Rosana’s interviewer is from)

Another one for “don’t worry about learning a specific dialect, you’ll pick one up as you go but only after years of it, and in the immortal words of a former coworker of mine ‘who the fuck cares that my English sounds Argentinian, each of us sounds like where we’re from and this is my fourth language!’”

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