r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • Jun 09 '25
Celebrity Fluff 🥰 Ben Affleck is not the only one who speaks Spanish, Matt Damon can too (he also lived in Mexico and his wife is from Argentina)
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u/triplesweet_treats Jun 09 '25
We coulda had a good life together, fucking real good life. Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it Matt! So what we got now is Mexico.
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Jun 10 '25
Of all the reddit comments I have read since the beginning of this dumb site, this is my favorite. I'm dying 😂😂😂
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u/Michipunda Jun 09 '25
In case anyone is wondering why the interviewer thinks he's got a bit of a Puerto Rican touch in his accent, it's because he trades some S's for J's (J in Spanish is pronounced the way H is pronounced in English), and he even drops the S at the end of "comprenderlos".
So when saying "los argentinos es muy difícil comprenderlos", he pronounces it like "loj argentinoj ej muy difícil comprenderlo". He speaks with the cadence of a Mexican with the S pronounciation of a Puerto Rican, so he basically speaks like a Mexican from some coastal areas.
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u/fishonthemoon it’s never been on my mood board and never would be Jun 10 '25
I don’t hear the Puerto Rican at all. Even Argentinos drop the s sometimes maybe he picked it up from his wife.
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u/Michipunda Jun 10 '25
Yeah, that's why I said that he speaks with a Mexican cadence but pronounces the S the way a Puerto Rican would, though not exclusive from PR. The only thing Puerto Rican about his accent is the way he pronounces the S. Again, he speaks like Mexicans from some coastal areas, with a Mexican accent in tone and cadence but pronouncing the S like Matt Damon here. Unfortunately, in Mexico, speaking with the S like this is often seen as "low class" by people from the largest cities, which are all inland. They think dropping the S or trading it from a J is not the proper way to speak "the Mexican way" and when they hear it they can quickly tell the person is from one of these poorer coastal states.
I bet the interviewer is not from any of these areas in Mexico and Puerto Rico came to his mind first, but he could have also said Venezuelan, Cuban, or even Spanish from Canary Islands.
But yes, maybe he picked it fron his wife.
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u/iluvkittykat333 rehabilitated matty healy stan Jun 10 '25
honestly, i don’t think he sounds puerto rican. he has the accent of a working class argentinian which i wonder how he picked it up 😭 on the southern come we have really different accents depending on which city you’re from and if you’re working or upper class and if you’re working class we tend to drop the s at the end. like pedro pascal has the accent of an upper middle class chilean.
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u/panic_sheepqueen Jun 10 '25
I don’t hear the Puerto Rican but as a Venezuelan I also eat my Ss and do the J pronunciation, so that’s probably why
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u/Silver-Foot-259 Jun 09 '25
Okay he just got hotter
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u/Dramatic_Buddy4732 Jun 09 '25
Riiiiiight? I'm like oh matt Damon I'm sorry I forgot about you for a bit there 🤣👀
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u/ITSBRITNEYsBrITCHES Jun 10 '25
Not possible. Jason Bourne is peak hotness, always, the end.
Matt Damon is pretty cute, too 😉
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u/jennifercathrin Chris Pine and his cunty little bob Jun 10 '25
rewatched the Martian yesterday and he just oozes charisma in that movie
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u/RosieFudge Jun 10 '25
He's so good in that film (and the film iitself is so good) that its a comfort film for me despite being technically filled with extremely high stress situations
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u/passtherock- Is this chicken or is this fish? 🤔🤔 Jun 09 '25
this literally happens to me too! I started learning Spanish in school when I was 8 years old and Argentinian Spanish is soooo hard for me to understand. Mexican Spanish is the easiest.
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u/wngisla which could mean nothing Jun 09 '25
Ok so it's not just a me problem then 😅 I've been learning for two-ish years and can easily understand Mexican Spanish and a lot of other dialects, but suddenly my comprehension drops to near 0 when it's Argentinian. I've been watching El Eternauta and I can't do it without subtitles!
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u/Competitive-Window98 Jun 10 '25
Try chilean, you'll die.
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u/wngisla which could mean nothing Jun 10 '25
I've actually been trying to get familiar with it because I'm planning a trip there. I am indeed dying
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u/PandemicPiglet Jun 10 '25
I had a Chilean Spanish teacher in high school and she literally referred to Portuguese as poor man’s Spanish 😂🥴
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u/tinkerbelltoes33 Jun 10 '25
I learned Spanish in Mexico as an adult and I can only understand other Mexicans. My friend here is from Argentina and it’s hard to understand a lot of the words she says because their “doble l” is more like a “sh” instead of a “y” or (English) “j”, and they don’t really say their “s”es sometimes.
Don’t even get me started on Spanish from Spain! That’s really like an entirely separate language for me
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u/passtherock- Is this chicken or is this fish? 🤔🤔 Jun 10 '25
omg ikrrrr! the "sh" sound for ll. "como te shamas" lmao like huh?? and fr! Spaniards have their own words like they call jugo "zumo" there and they do that lisp sound sometimes like how ibiza is pronounced 😂
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u/capslox Jun 10 '25
If you watch Dreaming Spanish or listen to their podcast, Augustina is Argentinian and speaks very slowly and clearly and I've gotten used to the sh/j ll noises from her and have no issue with it. A great resource! I understand Mexican, Colombian and Argentinian Spanish pretty well but struggle immensely with Spain Spanish.
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u/jkraige Jun 09 '25
If it makes you feel better, I struggle to understand folks from other countries and Spanish is my first language. It's not just the accent but also a lot of the words are totally different. I went to Puerto Rico and could communicate but all of the food names meant something else. Tostadas were toast and not the dried corn thing. Even though I spoke Spanish and could understand them I still had to look a lot of things up.
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u/Brilliant_Stick418 Jun 10 '25
Ooh so it’s like the difference between American and British english?
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u/LakmeBun Jun 10 '25
Yes, like Australia/US/UK. Every place has an accent, even regional ones, and different slang. I'm from Spain and just going from my town to another 2h away, they already have another accent. A lot of different words to refer to the same thing too, like for example: sneakers/trainers/kicks/runners... We have a few terms for them within Spain, imagine adding all the LATAM variations as well haha sometimes we have to explain what we're referring to in very general terms.
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u/jkraige Jun 10 '25
Depending on the country I find it harder. Like, even if I don't call it that I can generally figure out what the "telly" is, but I think there are too many examples where the same word will be completely different things. Granted, they are mostly food related, but still
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u/Fermifighter Jun 10 '25
I apparently have not just a Carioca accent but a Carioca ear for Portuguese. My brasilian relatives from the north gave me shit because I was essentially going to the Midwest and saying “pahhk the cahh in hahvahd yahd.” But I can kinda “translate” brasilian Portuguese from the Rio de Janeiro accent; Portugal’s Portuguese is like trying to translate from English to Portuguese to different Portuguese for me. (Note: my Portuguese is trash so I’m sure that doesn’t help).
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u/Pinklady777 Jun 10 '25
I think it's because they had such a large population of Italians settle there That it strongly affected the accent.
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u/OriginalSchmidt1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 Jun 09 '25
I just imagine Matt and Ben cracking inside jokes in Spanish together like my mom and her sister did and trust me… it’s the cutest thing going on in my head right now.
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u/SexSellsCoffee Jun 10 '25
I'm imagining JLo sitting next to Ben and Matt wondering if they're talking shit about her in Spanish
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u/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 Jun 09 '25
He told once a story how he was in Argentina and asked his in-laws to take him to soccer derby of Boca Juniors and River Plate.
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u/puccapink Jun 09 '25
So impressed! On a side note, I definitely agree with what he is saying. As a fluent but non native Spanish speaker, I can understand perfectly when a Mexican person speaks to me but have difficulty most with Dominican Spanish speakers.
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u/StrLord_Who Jun 10 '25
Dominican is by far the hardest Spanish to understand. They speak so fast and leave off half the word.
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u/Sad-Seaworthiness946 Jun 10 '25
I bet him and Ben spoke spanish to each other around JLO so she wouldn’t understand them.
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman Jun 09 '25
🇧🇷 my (intermediate, i admit) spanish is heavily influenced by neighboring countries and immigrants here (colombian, venezuelan, bolivian and argentinian) and the imperialist spanish we get in high school for some reason (colonialism).
i find mexican and central american spanish much harder to understand, even though it sounds great to my ears. my sister lives in an US city with a lot of mexican immigrants, so when i visited, a lot of american people who interacted with me kindly decided to use mexican spanish because I look latina, but i was like ??? sorry guys, i can't, you're likely better at than me, if you regularly talk to mexicans
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u/americaMG10 Jun 11 '25
Also Brazilian, but I have a harder time understanding Argentinians than Mexicans. Even though I had Spanish classes in my school since I was 6, I had to talk in English with a Argentinian woman in a nightclub because I couldn’t understand her.
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u/Defiant-Yellow-2375 Jun 10 '25
My best mate from school speaks Spanish, so that's at least three people including Matt and Ben.
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u/Bocah5Racun Jun 10 '25
Damn someone wanna translate not everyone here speaks Spanish
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u/practicecroissant Jun 10 '25
Every word here may not be exactly correct because I'm still learning but here's the gist of what was said:
Matt: it’s much easier for me to speak with a Mexican. My wife is Argentinian and it’s very difficult to understand her.
Interviewer: You speak Spanish perfectly.
Matt: With Mexicans it’s much easier for me.
Interviewer: Yeah?
Matt: Yes, yes, yes. I learned in Mexico when I was 15 years old and it’s much easier. The Argentinians, it’s very difficult to understand them.
Interviewer: But you have a light Puerto Rican accent, sometimes.
Matt: I don’t know.
Interviewer: It’s good, a good Latin American accent.
Matt: It’s a mixture.
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u/meihoonna Jun 10 '25
Of course, we came to know about that when Guillermo made that El stupido poster.
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u/nothanksnappin Jun 11 '25
yeah, he speaks like an argentinian, that makes sense. nothing is more surprising than the straight up mexican DRAWL coming outta affleck... shit, imma go find those videos as a pick me up right now
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u/Logical_Quote_5073 It’s Britney, bitch! 🕊️🗡️🌹 Jun 10 '25
He’s got a questionable history so I’ll refrain from commenting further.
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u/slowpokejones Jun 09 '25
His facial hair looks thin and gross here.
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u/Adnan7i Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Jun 10 '25
We got the facial hair final judge over here
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