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I'm not sure if I could help you with examples since it's my father's tongue, not mind. But I assure you, he found it very difficult to communicate with other Spanish speakers in California. However, he did have a much easier time talking with someone that grew up in the Philippines!
I do remember very distinctly that my dad did not know the word "dormir" or "to sleep" and the word he had started with "ad" but I don't remember it.
> but for now, it just sounds like some peculiar word choices.
Remember, the area is changing. The Spanish that's being spoken in New Mexico is altering to match the wider world. If you want older dialect, you really do have to find people in their 50's or older.
Who presumably spoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavacano (a dialect with a similar origin, though of course different geography & local influences)
Or maybe a dialect I've never heard of even, the Philippines is an incredibly linguistically diverse area. A woman I know from the Philippines grew up speaking 5 languages.
My mother in law drives me crazy with this and says “coha” instead of “cosa”, for example.
It's called debuccalization and it's very common in many languages.
I was born in Castile, so I usually speak "accentless" standard Spanish, but my mother comes from Extremadura, just a couple hours drive to the south, and when I speak to her I involuntarily switch to the extremaduran accent. I don't notice it but other people hearing me for the first time are shocked by the sudden switch.
Extremaduran accent has the same aspirated x and s mentioned in the article, so for "This is Extremadura" I'll tend to say "Ehto é Ehtremaura" to my mother and "Esto es Extremadura" to other people. Another curiosity is that many of the original "conquistadores" (Cortés, Pizarro) hailed from Extremadura.
The lisp always sounds odd to me. That and vosotros. The vast majority of Spanish speakers worldwide use neither.
za, ce, ci, zo, zu -> tha, the, thi, tho, thu. As in 'think'. That's it.
My slightly younger cousin’s friend found the way I pronounced things as well as some of my vocabulary to be very funny. When I pointed out that he also had an accent he almost almost wet himself with laughter, so absurd was the idea to him that both of us had accents rather than the one of us who didn’t sound American.
I mean it’s not exactly uncommon. I have the luck of having a southern U.S. accent and I’ve been told (mostly by people from outside the US in fairness) that they were surprised I wasn’t a raging racist.
It's worse in some places than others but it's practically universal.
In Argentina they call spaniards gallegos, like from Galicia, the Spanish region north of Portugal.
Do you have an example of omiting vowels between consonants? IMO the whole Spain speaks quite fast.
Reventado -> Reventao Colocado -> Colocao
On vowels between consonants, maybe "tarántula" -> Trántula spelling it really fast in a hurry.
But what I meant with the Andalusian accent being really fast and omiting vowels, they do in a way pretty close to the Southern US English accent.
Also, the Andalusians got a lot of arabisms (more than former Spanish) such as zaguán, babuchas, alcancía, alhaja, alcoba... the same way the Southern US English got lots of borrowings from Spanish.