How To Speak Like A Panamanian (The Panamanian Accent) 

Panama, Venezuela, North of Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic we do speak a dialect of Spanish named Caribbean Spanish.

This is fascinating. My grandma was Panamanian but she never taught my mother and aunts and uncles how to speak Spanish (they were born and grew up in Jamaica). I'm grown now, and learned some Spanish in school. But wish I learned Panamanian Spanish. Better late, no?

I moved here to Panama almost 2 years ago and I still can't get it. There's nothing a Panamanian wants to finish faster than their sentence

Jamaicans & Panamanians mix ALOT back in the day lol

The Panama Canal was built by workers from the West indies, like trinidad and Jamaica. Much of the workers settled in panama after the canal was built therefore contributing to the culture and ethnic makeup of modern day Panama

I'm so mad I didn't pursue Spanish when I was younger! I'm intimidated by it now and we are moving to Panama this year. My dad is Panamanian but I never got to grow up with their culture and language.

Some panamanian say Qué xopá or Qué sopa, it's like What's up

my mother's panamanian but she never spoke spanish around my siblings and i growing up. although i am making an effort to learn the language now in school, i still came to this video because i want to sound like a panamanian and not a spaniard when speaking spanish lol

Not to shabby. Your Dominican accent could still be heard when you spoke in your Panamanian tone. Good job. Your video was more representative of Panamanian Spanish spoken in the city. If your were to travel to Chiriqui its a extremely different tone. Panama 🇵🇦 is a very fascinating country. I love my country! A lot of the English we speak comes from 2 source, the North American and from the English speaking Afro Caribbean's who came to build the canal. Also, Panama was actually part of Colombia that's why we share a lot of our culture and language with them

Dang, he's surprisingly on point. I'm a Panamanian and I approve this message 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦

Ha! Panamanian Spanish sounds similar to Cuban Spanish to me! And there are a lot of Anglophone Caribbean Patois words there too due to their recent history!

Panameño acento sí, el bro mi país 💯🇵🇦

Been waiting for this! 🇵🇦🇧🇧💯

I really enjoy the "How to speak like" videos.😁

Panamá y Jamaica es gusta dis 🤞🇯🇲🇵🇦

Que xopa... Finally PANAMA en la chantin...

Thank you so much 😊 that's exactly how my husband and his family talks and now I understand better!

Great video as always bro. Love the Panamanian accent. Not as much as the Venezuelan one though, but then again, my family is Venezuelan so I’m kind of biased 😂

I’ve been waiting so long 🇵🇦🇵🇦👍🏽

Dude! Muchas gracias para ayudarme con esta leccion!! Yo tengo una novia de Panama y ella usa la mayoria de estas palabras haha. Eres el mejor!

En panamá hay muchos acentos, en la capital existen como tres oficialmente el del chacalito, el yeyesito y el normal sin ninguno de los anteriores

Omg I been thinking about their accent lately, so crazy that you did a video on it. I like the accents of Bocas de Toro 😏😎😍

yo como panameño estoy feliz de ver que nuestro acento es reconocido.y si tenemos cosas de jamaicas por la relacion que hubo en la epoca del canal y despues de eso. me encanta que nuestro acento entra en los acentos caribeños.

Lmfao i kept pausing to see if that’s what i was sounding like

💜💜💜 Mi gente 🇵🇦 🇵🇦 🇵🇦

He left out our excessive use of la palabra "LOCO" al final de cada frase. Contenido está bien guayas loco🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦!!!!

Wow.. Very good observations..I never thought of it myself.. You are right for some in Panama . Love it !

The explanation were excelent. It's 95% correct, however at the end you sounds like a dominican trying to speak like a panamanian. Btw I liked the video.

Ayyyyee Yess I was looking forward to this !

Oh my it's so hard for me as a Filipino student to learn Panamanian accent 😅 anyways Thanks I've learned something ♥️✨

Another thing we say is pritty which means cool So we would say Cha man esa vaina ta bien pritty Dang man that thing is super cool

Gracias Mo PRI !!!! , finalmente un video para nosotros

SOOO GOOD! U killed it! AMAZING I don't know about ur accent, but at the end it didn't sound like panamenian more like PR or DR, ur accent escaped a bit in ther . But the way u explained it was perfect!! Finally someone explains it thanks awebao!🤣 cha you tho

Panamaaaaaaaa desde new York

Let's not forget that the largest group of west indians to come to panama to build the canal were the bajans " barbados " the second largest were the jamaicans , and then the trinis, now in neigboring costa rica those west indians who settled there in the early 1900's are of strictly jamaican heritage.

About time u do Panamanian....u alwayz do DR

Bro, your impressions are really good... Definitely you deserve more views!!

Yes, but you have't visited to Chiriqui. 😎😎, the best place in Pánama.

Y El fin 🤣😂este man...que dramatico!! Me encanta esto. Tengo que compartir este video a mis pans 👍👍👍

Happy to see more of us 🙌🏾🙌🏾

#HoldIt I am Panamanian speaker. I try to use the "professional" tone in my daily life. As far I see, people around use to use the "professional" one. The most common words I use as the "shortened words": these are the most commonly used! There is two tones, you missed, but they are not commonly used: the Western (meto') and the Azuero (ojue')...

Their accent is like Spanish (PR,DR,Cuba,Caribe de Colombia) mix with Jamaican patois 😍. Ps what is this movie you’re watchin? Is it like an urban version of Netflix but in Spanish?

My grandpa was raised living his whole childhood in Panama and when he was an adult decided to get American citizenship and was actually in Vietnam. He spent a lot of time alone before he died in 2014 i remember him speaking Spanish and yelling at me in Spanish when he was angry. He died without anyone speaking his native language. My mom doesn't know Spanish because he had my mom and her siblings taken from him. But i am going to learn and this is so helpful.

Saludo Panama 🇵🇦Panama ➕🇧🇧Barbados ⚌ Familia

As someone born and raised in Panama this is very accurate .

saludos de panama mi loko! I never comment but this time I felt inclined mi mopri! que lances muchos mas videos

At the end you sounded more Dominican. Regarding the Snob accent, it actually sounds more like you have your mouth stuffed with a potato; reason why people in Panama have the saying "habla con la papa en la boca" about the preppy snob way of speaking

Wow. Que puedes hacer todo! Gracias, Rickie!

Habla compa! Que xopa!? You nailed it bro. This video is Firee 🔥🔥. Totally sharing it with my cus who lives en los Miami 🤣🤣

Panamanians mix up words for example que paso is que sopa (Xopa), primo is mopri and there is more 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦

PANAMANIAN ACCENT ITS HARD TO IMITATE AND ITS NOT RELATED WITH DOMINICAN , VENEZUELIAN OR PUERTO RICAN ACCENT. OUR ACCENT ITS UNIQUE.

This is sooooo helpful!!!!!! My husband is PR but this video bridged huge gaps in my spanish comprehension. PS the bougie person at the end... 😂😂😂👍🏾

So cute . my firend used to say its "shilly" for its chilly and "shicken" for chicken lol I love it sooo cute 😝

Greetings from Panama🇵🇦

Mostly countries that are carribean decent speak this way. You sound a lil dominican here which is also similar to Panamanian accent

Soy Panameño de USA pero hablo mas Interiorano porque mis padres son de La Pintada.

And dont forget costa rica. They share almost. The same accent like us

I never got a lot of the Panamanian accent because my dad's canadian, so I learnt two languages at the same time, so they sort of mixed

I love you so much!! Sounding so much como mi familia!!!👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️❤️

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okay I came back home to korea after living about 3 years in panama and a spanish tutor said I speak in a weird way not pronouncing the 's'... and I shouldn't. Felt a bit sadge cuz she was speaking in a very passionate spanish spanish and that's no way close to my personality and my background.

Saludos desde Brasil. Me encanta Panama por Katherine Boyce.

Lmao when I heard "esa peladito" I died

I would like to know how do you find your information on the various specific accents? I plan to move to Panama and would like to find audio or conversations where I can hear it more. Most of the time language material give you general areas and not as specific as you get. How can you find enough material on each to be able to actually be fluent in one particular dialect. Or at least to understand a particular one. Thank you.☺️

I am from DR and saw a lot of Dominican in that Panamanian Spanish something was new but the majority was soo Dominican

Bastante acertado si se trata de los rakatakas (ghetto Panameños) en la capital del país; sin embargo en otros niveles socio - económicos o en otras provincias no se habla así. Entre más educado sea el Panameño la dicción es mucho mejor y no corta tanto las palabras. Por ejemplo eso de “cafeses” sólo lo diría alguien bien pero bien INCULTO 😂😂😂

Yo escucho Las Rakas

More Panamanian videos please!!!

Honduran Accent From the Caribbean and all ways of speaking from Honduras 🇭🇳 ( please don’t forget bout The English creole and the other accents as well )

This makes me think of Portuguese.

El acento panameño se modifica bastante rápido por la gran cantidad de turistas que llegan al país. Fue bueno que intentaste abarcar los principales acentos, Los yeyes y el ghetto. Hay palabras (slang) que solamente nosotros tenemos y creo que serían bastante útiles para ti. 100/100

Panamanian and Puerto Rican 🤞

very informed video !! love it

U heard its a mix of jamaican potoi also

Bro’s on point

Very helpful 🎉🎉🎉thank you

Saludos desde Panamá 🇵🇦🏙️🇵🇦🌴🌆🏙️

Finally, its here !

This is for all you people at the border that needs take Panamanian when everybody comes through this is how you speak Panamanian so hopefully everybody can understand each other

Interesting video. It's neat to see the similarities between it an Caribbean Spanish. I've read articles on PR and I think a lot of their pronunciations comes from the African Roots. I wonder if it's the same in Panama. I'm not sure if they have as strong of an African history as PR or DR?

Tu te ve dominicano

“No come perro” 💀💀

Yess

U forgot to explain que xopa ( que paso)backwards with x...n we use certain words backwards..ejemplo..contigo will be congoti lol...i know my family Panamain...

I highly suggest anyone that is interested in Panamanian culture🇵🇦 or the language to please search in Spanish, just because you will find more accurate representation as far as Panamanian food, culture, language, and history .. 🇵🇦 I think that there are some things that are misrepresented and it’s probably why there’s a little bit of confusion for some people that don’t know anything about Panama 🇵🇦. There are some people to claim that they are Panamanians and they have never been to Panama and they’re relatives have very very little roots in Panama only to the panama canal construction during the times of the early 1900s and that’s just about it. Some of them don’t even speak Spanish at all, or the majority that claim to be Panamanian. It’s probably why the Panamanian parade in Brooklyn has been changing or is fizzling out because Panama is being well represented during the Hispanic parade in the month of September in Manhattan. Some of those words are only spoken amongst certain people that live, particularly in the panama canal area, and sometimes imitated for fun by the youth. But in many household in Panama, especially out in the interior part of Panama, it is predominantly Spanish-speaking with very little mixing of English. A lot of people on this comment section may not even realize that because as I said before many people on here, haven’t even been to Panama and know very little about Panamanian culture.

This was great to learn

I need a part 2

Primero !

There's so many questions I want to ask you about your journey to being bilingual

The English in it is from our grandparents that came from the English speaking Caribbean Island, not Puerto Rico.

Loved it!

Good video. thx

Please do Colombian

What are some good Panamanian telenovelas to watch?

I can't wait to learn 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦 spanish so I can make 🇵🇦 friends I know Que Xopa, Priti , La U , La Profe, I need to know more

You did this perfectly mano

You should do a tone from the older generation from Chiriqui 😂

These skits are funny🤣🤣🤣

more like "pa' onde vas fren"

Esta pritty es la mas comun t es referiendose a que esta bien oh lo Maximo papa . Pretty in English ..