| If you learn something in a bad way it takes more effort that learning that straight well. If you learn English pronunciation from Europeans you are not really learning English, you are learning Spanish, German or French pronunciation rules on English words. Spain and all the Spanish speaking countries(Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela,Ecuador, Peru...) is such a big environment speaking just one language that they usually don't have the need to learn proper English pronunciation. You could even live in parts of the US speaking Spanish only. Also happens with French in Africa. I have so many French friends that don't speak English well because they don't need it. Any Spanish speaker can communicate with a Portuguese, French and specially Italian with little effort because they are so similar. It also happens in Germany, being much smaller environment but having all those Nordic countries that speak Germanic languages they can communicate with little effort. The exception being small countries like Netherlands or Switzerland in which work is done in English being interconnected with the global economy. |
For any native French speaker without prior exposure to it, Spanish is just as incomprehensible as Russian or Dutch.