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[missdaredevil]

Why would that be a problem, he doesn't speak Spanish?

or

Why would that be a problem? He doesn't speak Spanish?

Which one has the rigth punctuation?

Thanks

[ad-miral]

If it was me, I would have said: Why would it be a problem, that he doesn't speak Spanish?
Because if you say the sentence like you wrote the listener would not understand the connection between the two sentences.
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[bud]

I think puncuation is tricky in this sentence because it is a sentence that is almost certainly spoken, while quite unlikely to be written (except as dialog).

I think I'd probably write it as:

Why would that be a problem - he doesn't speak Spanish?

[redset]

I agree with bud, and your last sentence works fine too.