How To Speak Like A Dominican (The Dominican Accent) 

How many people here are Dominican but don’t have the accent and is tired of people it believing they Dominican

😂😂😂 “your r’s and your l’s just may be kidnapped” 😂

Americans: “New York” Dominicans: “Nueva Yol”

I'm Dominican and have always been aware that my r's turn into l's, s and d are throwaway letters but I never noticed the whole ng thing on words that end with n until I started watching videos like this lmao like wow, I do do that!

Bro you have to go to DR. Respect to you for the commitment.

La manera que la gente habla en el caribe en general es tan bonita 😍🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷 pero buen video! Me encanta!!

Las tres cosas que se necesitan para poder aprender el acento dominicano: 1-Hablar Rapido 2-Cortar las palabras como por ejemplo: "estoy" nosotros decimos "toy" 3-Hablar alto Y ahí está el acento dominicano. Orgullosa de mi país!

Dominican Spanish sounds fast and bouncy. When I moved to Florida I was like Damm. I was that's some Fly stuff right there. They thought I was from Haiti. However, When I started talking they was like where you from? I said, I just moved from Minneapolis. They said, ohhh!!! Your accent is not like anything from here either. We started laughing. My Sister knows more Spanish than me. Because her friends was teaching her. She can almost have full conversations.

Of all the Spanish dialects, my favorite is the Dominican dialect. They speak with a prominent rhythm, if that makes sense. I fly there at least twice a month and enjoy trying to speak with airport personnel. Most of the time I can't keep up LOL!

I am mixed. Mom is dominican, dad is white. Unfortunately I got my dad's genes. I don't have the accent, but in my opinion the dominican accent sounds pretty nice, so I want to develop one.

Watching this video gave me nostalgia. I am Mexican and I lived in the Dominican for a year and a half and I came back with the Dominican accent! lol. You speak like a pure Dominican. You HAVE to visit the Dominican Republic, the best place, with the best accent.

I learned Spanish in New York, then moved back west. I found your video as I was nostalgically looking for samples of the Dominican accent. It made my day.

Thank you so much for this. I’ve been learning Spanish in school for years and struggled with understanding Spanish spoken by natives because I was taught gringo Spanish lol. I always feel bad when I can’t understand the spanish word when spoken but understand it when written. This video brings clarity as to why I don’t understand sometimes. Dialect makes a difference!

Me being Half Dominican trying to learn how to speak Dominican😂🤣😂

Hearing your Dominican accent makes me want to learn Spanish and talk like that even more. Mucho gente piensa que soy dominicano en mi trabajo pero soy Afro Americano.

yo you look more Dominican then me

As a Chicano 🇲🇽🇺🇸 I am in love with the Dominican accent

Lol I've heard killao many times, didn't even know the word was quillado 😂😂😂

man said there is a linguistic war... LMFO 🤣😭😭😭 long live the “Ls” and “Rs”

I’m Dominican Myself Love This Tho❤️

I always knew like the accent cuz we got this neighbor and he Dominican,but it was more like a mimic.Ppl will ask "oh tu eres De Santo Domingo?!"but I'm really from Honduras but I got a Dominican accent

waiting for your video on Cuban Spanish so i can Understand Celia Cruz a lil better

Another one I always hear in the Dominican Republica. De Velda= De verdad

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What a great dose of linguistic geekery! You’ve clearly really listened and analyzed this stuff very well.

you should really go visit the D.R!

Man congratulations for never being in the Dominican republic you're more aware of our linguistics than many that are good job very accurate information and also your pronunciation is terrific I've also watched other video of yours in other accents and congratulate you about those ones as well keep it up

Se tiene que vivir en La República Dominicana por un tiempo para realmente dominar el dialecto. O se tiene que ser una habladora nativa.

I say “venga” all the time just because I’m like that🤣

I really thought he was dominican until he said he wasn’t 😂

What are some Dominican "resources" to help grasp the accent if you're not actually able to speak with dominicans all the time? What did you use?

I’m half Puerto Rican and half Dominican and I don’t know any Spanish but every time I hear a Dominican talk it sounds so much cooler I guess than other ppl speaking Spanish . That’s another reason why I want to learn how to talk like a Dominican

Boss this was a great Video. I just moved to the DR and The Slang is hard to catch . I just posted a Vid talking about it .. Thanks for teaching Boss

so could someone from mexico understand perfectly what im saying if i have dominican accent

I’m Dominican and Haitian I can barely speak it but for me Dominican Spanish easier to learn idk 😭😭💀

Can you do a video on Colombian spanish, not like Medellín, but like Cartagena and other coastal cities? Thanks. Your videos are great

Sounds like a lazy tongue instead of pronouncing entire words. Like wat cha eatin instead of what are you eating

Outstanding...such a sharp ear you have! Thanks for sharing the details.

Well, it isn't too bad if you're ok with neutral Spanish. It's like being an American speaking English, when an Aussie pronounces something like Mate (mäyt) you know what it is. Well, at least if you know what the differences are.

Ima be fighting with my boyfriend tryna speak and understand the way he speaks Spanish😭💀 the way Dominicans speak Spanish is sooo unique, and jus moves me the right way. But with this whole thing about the Dominican accents and words being kidnapped... biiiiitch ima be having trouble for awhile🤣 visting DR is just something I might have to do. But I always felt like Spanish speakers in general never finished off their words "correctly"🤣🤣 I just never wanted to say anything yet💀

Me estoy buscando means “I’m looking for...” I thought?? I’m so confused now 🤣

I love the elongated part! 😂 yessss💃🏽 Dominican Spanish will work for me because I’m extra 😂😂

Oye como tu ‘ta? Great channel! It’s amazing and awesome that you pick up all the subtleties of the languages even though you’ve never been out of the U.S. Especially how awesome you pick up on the regional variantes as well. You definitely have an ear for language! You actually remind me of myself when I was growing up in NY surrounded by a bunch of friends from ‘ el ‘Can’: Cuba, Puerto Rico, La República Dominicana. Pues, vives en Nueva York? De todos modos, que te opine como pronuncia la ‘ll’ y “y’ en las partes diferentes de La República Dominicana? Edit: I just watched the 1st part of your Cuban Video and found out you have been out of the country. I should of watched these videos in order lol. Anyway, you still have an amazing ear for language either way. For all I know u could be from Belize ;)

Don’t forget Dominicans and the use of the word “vaina” lol

Watching this again now I was able to see you talking about the R's or L's taking them out is part of the slang as well. In the Cibao yes they put the I's in mostly words. Capitaleños mostly uses the L's. Just putting that out there !

I loved this information, very well broken down, I sure appreciate it. I'm going to use the Dominican accent for my audition, so thank you for your knowledge :)

I spent the best vacation of my life on the eastern part of the Hispanola Island a.k.a. Dominican Republic - listening to "Los Illegales" on the beautiful beach near Boca Chica with very nice and cheerful great people of Dominicana! Lord bless you all, my dear amigos!

2:36 , i say it real quick and i dont notice 😂🤣

So interesting love the way they speak..the only famous Dominicans that I'm aware of are Romeo Santos and Prince Royce lol and I was listening to a song the other day by La Insuperable and instead of saying "Me haces feliz" she said in one of her songs "Me hace feli" maybe she's from Puerto Rico idk but really Dominican and Puerto Rican accent is really beautiful but I'm more so used to Mexican way of talking lol anyways buen trabajo! Bendiciones y Dios te bendiga!

En la zona Norte hablan con la (i), en la zona Sur con la (R), algunos en la zona Este hablan con la (L), es mas en los barrios de la capital.✌😘

I Dominican, we have different accents, at least 4 distinct ones. we don't all sound the same. i grew up in eastern mass but it kinda annoying that people think we all sound like the Spanish equivalent of northern jersey and be like, this is how American speak like..... For example im fgroom el cibao but i pronounce my Rs ect. I like that this dude includes a lot of these differences. not perfet but respect.

Este vídeo estaba muy útil para mi. Understanding the Dominican and Puerto Rican accent is currently the most difficult thing in my journey of learning Spanish. Good video, keep up the good work 👍🏽

Damn dude. Acabas de hacer el mejor video de como se habla español en República Dominicana que cualquier domicnicano! Diablo loco, felicidades!!! Quería señalar las localidades que no conocías bien... los que dicen “acelte” son los del cibao (campos y zonas mas rurales de allá). Los que hablarían como en rl ejemplo que pusiste de “Reynaldu” son los del suroeste (o sureños como aqui le decimos) de la isla, dígase: Azua, San Juan, etc. Que de hecho son los que pronuncian las erres R con mas fuerza en RD.

This was dope, made soo much sense. I’m learning now and it helps to understand Dominicans cause their slang is crazy.

It’s kinda weird speaking that way I’m Hispanic with no accent but can do this Dominican accent but I don’t speak much Spanish so I can’t keep a conversation going on spanish but I’ve spoken to my friends with that accent in front of girls and girls love that shit lol.... I just realized the only way I speak is that accent is when I argue in Spanish

Yo aprendiendo el espanol y vivo alrededor de muchos Dominicanos. Yo habia intendido a hablar con ellos, pero cuando les hablo, ellos me miran extrano. A veces, ningunas quieren hablar conmigo. S'i yo viva alrededor los espanoles o los columbiano, creo que no yo haya tenido esta problema. Esto video fue bueno. Yo necesito saber esto.

Lmao mi novio habla asi. He is born and raised from Moca, DR. (North from what he told me) #SoydeGuatemala he still pronounces the "L" The only time I heard him Not say it is when he says "Nueva Yol" Jaja 😅 I Love it! 😘

I would like to speak to I'm Dominican I think I know how to

The worst besides whiny Medellin accents

Hey Klk I am Dominican and you speak our Spanish very well, Tiguere you are a Bacana pod, for a Chin I thought you were a Dominican, Greetings from Sto.Dgo. Dominican Rep. Quisqueya La Bella

I love dominicans... xD they are so nice... Cuando fui me trataban re bien, y me sonreían mucho. Aunque es obvio que es.. porque soy mujer. Pero son buena gente. xD

I saw a couple comments where ppl were talking about Romeo Santos and Prince Royce and for those who don’t know they both were born in Dominican Republic what happens is that when they get to the top they forget where they come from and start to say they were born here in USA but one of their parents is Dominican and all that bullshit.!!!!🙄

Holy crap I would have thought that you been traveling abroad for years! I just return from the Dominican Republic, amazing country!

I love Dominican Spanish. I want to preface this next comment with this: I think Dominican Spanish is the best and I also love that is evolving. I think the last thing about “i” becoming “r” or “l” is like a compensation for El Cibao shift. People being unsure what is a “true r” and a “true i” in speech, so they, for lack of a better word, “guess” on whether to use “r/l” or “i”.

uh uh dominican accents is a NO for me. when they talk i just sit there and watch the words fly out they mouth i can’t understand a WORD

Así eh manito klk mi gente aprendan que eso eh una muvie🇩🇴😈✌️

I love the Dominican accent thank you for clarifying,the only thing i find a bit silly is the "L" instead of the R sound 🤭

1:28 doesnt buscando mean search can sum1 please explain? or is the word buscando dominican for the word money maybe?

ha ha yo trato de hablar asi cuando me voy a la republica dominican:)

I have a lot of Dominican friends but I never paid attention to the way they speak. Interesting though. ☺

I approve this message, I'm 100% domi

Esta era quando tu no había sido a la RD! Después de tres años, creo que eres lingüísto oficial. 💯

Omg I didn't even realize the ng thing you are right on. I was born in the states and the ng thing was still passed to me. I didn't even realize other hispanics don't do the ng thing.

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Hahaha nice video man

You cracked me up the entire video. Can I adopt you as my lil'brother?!?! ... I promise I would learn Spanish faster and we can crack the heck up. Question. I plan on retiring in Belize. What type of Spanish do they speak there?

Watching this after your vlog in Santiago, DR 🇩🇴 is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂 0:20 blessings bro!!

I've understood the Dominican guapo as a difference between ser and estar guapo, it was tough learning Spanish there as a native English speaker lol.

I remember when my uncle asked me if I was “guapo” once and I was like confused bc I thought he meant handsome 😂

BRUHHHHH. How am I supposed to know what they saying if all the letters keep disappearing??????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Hi Rickie. You mentioned accents and some people think they're better than others (linguistically) because of their accent. I live in Birmingham, England. Many people here and abroad think they know what a Birmingham accent is but they're actually listening to a "black country" (west of Birmingham) accent. Thankfully I don't have much of any accent. Those from the south of England consistently make fun of anyone and how they speak if they're from the wider Midlands area or further north. So it would seem it happens everywhere!

Thanks for saying that you are an official linguistic. The Dominican speaking depends on the person background. ....n education. When my daughter talk about quillao I stop her, hablando bien....

Dang you even understand the rivalry between Santiago and Santo Domingo? Nah, bulto, you are Dominican

I’m Mexican American but this is dope. I love seeing diversity and other ethnic customs. There’s a lot of Puerto Rican’s and Mexicans (probably Dominicans too) where I’m from but I never really knew the type of accent that Dominican’s have. I know a couple Puerto Rican’s who don’t have the really fast speaking Spanish. One of my friends sounds like how we Mexicans speak Spanish, haha. Anyways, not to be rude or anything, I was just never really exposed to seeing both together, but I never really knew the difference between Puerto Rican and Dominican Spanish. That’s why I said “(probably Dominican’s too)” up there. I just watched a commercial with Al Horford and he spoke really slow and really clear Spanish. Then I thought about how Romeo Santos and Prince Royce also have a really slow and really clear Spanish when they sing. I wanna get to know more about the language

It’s not Dominican language from el cibao it’s a dialect. There are many different dialects in Dominican Republic which we inherited from Spain. If you go to Andalucía in Spain you will hear them speaking like people from el cibao.

It's cool how we do the same thing in english

Decir acento dominicano… no aplica, es uno de ellos pero no todos tienen el mismo acento, por ej: mi familia es de montecristi….. cuando lleque a Estados Unidos en el 1982, me encontré con este acento y para mi fue algo nuevo y lo sique siendo, nosotros hablamos algo más neutro… excepto por la aspiración de la “L”, muy cierto que dominas ese acento pero decir “Dominican accent” no aplica.

Great video brother I love much love and respect to you bro

How did you learn to speak spanish? And how long did it take ?

Man I love this guy! You are freaking awesome, I'm American and my boyfriend is Dominican he loves this video and said you did an awesome job. Tambien yo voy a grabar unos videos hablando sobre la manera que yo enseñé a mi misma el idioma de Español! Yo te apoyo al cien percento 🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾❤❤❤

Este hombre habla muy bien el español, y me atrevo apostar que con 2 años viviendo en RD perdería por completo el acento americano que le queda al hablar español. Pero debes de informar mejor, no todos los dominicanos hablamos como si pertenecieramos a una pandilla de barrio. A mi casa llega un tipo hablando como tu y cierro las puertas con candados.

Bro if you ever get that passport hit me up. I’ve got family all over & can show you around. Although I’m American born I’m fluent & go from time to time. I also visit other countries is Latin America & I think you are def ready to take on a conversation with locals anywhere.

I Speak With The L 😭

Dominicans news station, Dominican teachers and Dominican Poloticians don't speak like this. Thats the real Dominican Spanish. Not the street talk.

TikTok anyone

i thought "veng" was the correct way to say it 😭😭 maybe i did learn something from my dominican mom 💕

Lmao my parents are from mexico but I say " para " but it comes out sounding like "pa'l" and idek where I get that from

Where my Dominicans at?

Can you remove the background music please so I can hear better what you are trying to say?

I need to finally learn Spanish !! Teach me your ways