when do you even breathe?

I don't think this is a stereotype of any kind, and if it is I apologize for buying into it if it isn't true, but in my experience I've found that people who speak Spanish talk extremely fast.

I've been around all kinds of people who speak all kinds of languages, some of which I understand and most of which I don't. Ironically, it's Spanish I have the best grasp of even though I haven't spoken it in years and no longer have the command of it I used to. But people speaking French or German or Russian or Chinese or Japanese don't seem to do this. It's just something I noticed with Spanish-speakers, especially from Central and South America rather than Spain.

Listening to someone speak in Spanish is like listening to a tape being played at double speed. Even French offers better annunciation and you only ever pronounce the vowels in that one. I really can't tell where one word ends and another begins and when I spoke Spanish I never talked that fast. I certainly don't talk that fast in English.

I guess it's just something about Spanish that makes people talk really quickly. I don't even know how or when or whether they stop to breathe.