Do the servants and workers have a different accent to the ladies and gents of higher class? For example, does Julio speak/sound different from Alicia? In UK, the working class had a very different accent from the upper class and it was quite easy to disguinsh your status from the way you spoke, so just wondering if it was like that in Spain too? Just curious!
shareI suppose that's possible, but I've gone through Gran Hotel over 14 times, and I can't hear any difference in the accents other than it seems the older people speak slower than the younger people, generally. There are some different dialects in Spain, and they're speaking Castellano in Gran Hotel, which means c's and z's are pronounced th, and ll is not straight y but with an l before it. I'm studying Spanish, not a native speaker, so I'll be interested in hearing if I missed something.
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Nope, no differences, castilian or neutral (from Spain point of view) accent is what you are going to usually hear in spanish shows.
They could have made a difference stressing the fact that low class people had not access to proper education in those years, making them use poor spanish (bad use of verb tenses and such), but they didn't. Everyone went to school in the show hehe. They only focused in the treatment, more respectful and submissive from the working class.
Ah, I see. Thank you! Very interesting. That explains why Julio could steal other men's suits and pretend to be someone of a higher class and no one got suspicious!
shareIt was the tie (la corbata). It was white (blanco) instead of black (negro). LOL Apparently, that made all the difference.
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"How was the war, sir?"
"As any war, ma'am, a waste of good men." (Poldark)