the differences between puerto rican spanish and normal spanish

Question

what is the differences between puerto rican and normal spanish.. i have notice many slangs in musics all..

Answer 1

Slang is different in all countries, as it is with English.

Here you can go to the Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española, a government funded institution created to encourage the correct use of the language and represent the Puertorrican variety of Spanish whenever words have to be added or removed from the Diccionario de la lengua española and all other cross-country linguistic project undergoing at the moment, including the nearly finished Gramática de la lengua española, a grammar that contrasts all regional accepted variants of Spanish from all over the world.

If you have any Puertorrican Spanish specific question, you can submit your question in that page, and their Puertorrican linguists will answer your question. Notice, however, that their written Spanish is indistinguishable from any other written Spanish (you don't use slang in a serious academic and cultural web page).

Here you can see some of their publications, including Puertorrican specific dictionaries.

Answer 2

Well Puerto Rican Spanish has alot more slang. Like many of other spanish speaking countries. I have been told if you want to learn proper spanish that you should go to Spain. They have different types of spanish there too, but it is the most proper.

• "Proper" is a very loaded term. While some linguists might agree with you, most would suggest "appropriate to a particular region/area" and avoid the implied value judgement (which is difficult to support on any rational basis. - samdie 10 de Ago, 2009