Spanish is spoken across three continents, and learners worry constantly about picking the wrong version. But compared to English or Portuguese, the variation is surprisingly small. The vowels stay consistent whether you are in Mexico, Colombia or Spain, and most of what really changes is slang, rhythm and a couple of consonants. I have found that after a day or two in a new country you stop hearing the accent at all and just hear the meaning. Which Spanish accent do you find hardest to follow?
I have spanish from spain as mother language but I have friends from Peru, Mexico and Ecuador and I’ve been living in Chile for 3 years. According to my experience spanish from Chile is the most difficult accent and very different from other spanish dialects in therms of tone, vocabulary, pronunciation, slang… Think that Chile geography is like an island: Andes mountains in one side, the sea at the other side, ice in the south and desert in the north. Even other spanish-speakers from other Latin America struggle to understand chilenians speaking to each other (or even with them…).