Media Tony Ferguson speaking Spanish

[StonedLemur]

his mom is from spain

Yup.

 

[TPMR]

I was told by a native Spanish speaker that Tony knows words but has a horrible accent and does not know how to structure sentences.

he has bad grammar, bad accent and knows few words,

 

[shortlefthook]

I can't speak any Spanish. How is Tony's Spanish when he tries to speak it? Is it heavily accented? Full of grammatical errors?

its bad but you cant tell he understands everything but forgets words and how to say them.

Fabricio lived in Spain like six years and holds an Spanish passport. He competed in the early Euros (Advanced class) even before he got his passport and caused harvoc there. He fought under both flags in that period.

He is also from Porto Alegre, in Southern Brazil, close to the triple border, were tha accent is more simmilar. In fact his Spanish should be even better, but he could communicate made zero effort. I met the guy a couple of times in those days. Nice funny guy if you didn't cross him. Incidentally, he studied Spanish in school.

Ferguson doesn't speak Spanish for shyte, it's hilarious.

his mother is spainard I believe, and werdum speaks pretty near perfect spanish

 

[Cracked_Rib]

"Yo soy un fighter muy round" lmao

 

[arcadeperfect]

Tony is as Mexican as @Ackmed .



Portuguese is very different from Spanish and Portugal is not a province of Spain. Portuguese (PT) is different from Brazilian (BR) Portuguese, while we do understand each other perfectly, there are a lot of differences in words, how some are written and the accent.

Is the difference between PT and BR bigger than US English and UK English?

 

[PhilMcCavity]

his mom is from spain

No place for mom jokes here

 

[Steve Fox]

Is the difference between PT and BR bigger than US English and UK English?

It is very similar in that sense. A lot of words have different meanings and Brazilian Portuguese has more rythm, it is a happier language.

 

[Choco]

its bad but you cant tell he understands everything but forgets words and how to say them.
his mother is spainard I believe, and werdum speaks pretty near perfect spanish

Mom is Brazilian too. His mother moved to Spain in the late 90's, Fabricio followed her in 2000.

 

[randomg1t]

But really, aren’t they super close and mutually intelligible?

no.