Is the spanish that we are learning from spain?
there are many different types of spanish. puertorican, dominican, chillian, columbian, panamanian..Which is the one we are learning, is it from spain?
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Welcome. Don't let them fool you. There are major differences in Spanish from country to country, and region to region within each country. Just like English. I'm from the midwest U.S. with the standard U.S. American Broadcast T.V. accent, and I was told by a woman in Dublin, Ireland that she couldn't understand a word I said. My wife is from Virginia and when she was at graduate school at Georgia Tech she had to translate for two classmates from Long Island and Charleston, South Carolina.
I learned "standard" Spanish in high school, basically Mexican, and I was pretty good at conversational Spanish. Then I moved to Venezuela. It took me 6 months before I was comfortable holding a full-speed conversation in Caracas. People who say that Spanish is Spanish are either really good at it, or haven't traveled much.
This site is pretty neutral, but the lessons are definitely an American woman pronouncing in a Latin American accent, very slowly. Which makes sense for someone giving lessons. It's a great place to start. If you plan on living in Argentina or Spain or Puerto Rico or wherever you may want to look into those particular vernaculars to supplement your lessons.
Edit: Apologies to Bob. He is both very, very good at it and has traveled tremendously.
Hey ladies, the Spanish on SpanishDict is actually Castillian Spanish and that is what you are learning whether it is at school or anywhere in Mexico or South America. It comes from Spain originally - just like English originated in England!
English is English and Spanish is Spanish. There's not a whole lot of difference between countries that speak those languages. Of course accents are different and in Spain they use vosotros and in other countries they use vos, but you are perfectly understood not using those forms where they are used. Certain countries have several words taken from their indigenous languages. Mexico is an example of this. Tortilla, mole, cuate, pataca, are some Mexican words that come to mind. American English and British English are almost identical. The Brits say torch and we say flashlight, they say boot and we say trunk (of a car), etc.
Más importante que aprender español de un pais u otro, creo que se trata de aprender español culto.
Si eres angloparlante y aprendes español tendrás que optar por algún acento necesariamente porque el acento no es homogéneo en toda España.
El otro dia ví en TV a un japonés hablando muy bien y ¡con acento del sur de España! Divertidísimo. Tú problema y tus dudas son los mismos que los míos.
Yo soy de Castilla y pienso que no tengo acento y que el acento lo tienen los otros,je,je...pero los habitantes de otras zonas de España o de Hispanoamérica no opinan lo mismo...
Estoy aprendiendo inglés.Me enseñan acento inglés.He visto una pelicula de Robert de Niro haciendo de boxeador: Toro salvaje.
¡Su inglés no se parece en nada al del primer ministro británico! ¿por tanto ,qué inglés necesito?¿uno que haga gracia a un lord inglés u otro que divierta a un oficinista de Chicago?
In schools they teach mostly Mexican Spanish.
When I was at university the Spanish department had teachers from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Columbia, Cuba, Argentina and one gringa (who had studied in Spain). I never found any of them to be especially hard to understand. The only problems I had were due to my lack of vocabulary rather than their dialect. As one might expect, they were all educated and spoke a fairly "standard" Spanish. Pronunciations and accents differed, of course, but precisely because they were from a variety of countries, they avoided the use of regionalisms when talking together.
When you travel to a particular country, however, you come into contact with people whose education may be minimal and who use the idioms of the area and, in many cases, are unaware that they are using "local" expressions/vocabulary. Even well educated people will be prone to use regionalisms when they are "at home" (talking with friends/family) but they are much more likely to be able to "adjust" their speech to make it more literary/international when speaking with a "foreigner".
yea my school teaches mexican spanish but i am sure they teach spanish spanish in spain!!!
lol "spanish spanish"
