Latin American vs spain
what kind of Spanish is taught at this site LA or Spain
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Really there is only Spanish. Then there are some regional variations. The grammar and basics remain the same, some words have different meanings and there are some varied usage, given that the area of the globe that speaks Spanish is very large.
Just like English really. There is only English, the rest is regional variation.
I´m with Annie,
The differences are not large enough to really concern oneself with.
But if we wanted to, ven this differentiation does´t tell the whole story.
I sometimes (even though a still minority of the times) run into things where I find that Colombian or Peruvian friends will use a word more like the Spaniards do than the Mexicans do. As such, even talking about continental-iberian-peninsular Spanish vs latin-american Spanish will give false clues as to what term is used in each. My Spanish has been very Mexican, and secondarily latin-american focused, and yet when I spent a couple weeks in Spain, other than a couple words that were essentially just curiosities, the only thing that gave me trouble was a few days adjusting to the accent. And since accent for the most part doens´t come through on written material and media, that wouldn´t have mattered.
Just study Spanish in general. And if you get ready to go to a real Spanish speaking place, try to watch a half-dozen movies from there to get used to the accent a bit ahead of time.
Good luck, and study hard.
R
Both.
Depende de quién te responda, pero procuramos detallar los diferentes usos del idioma según el país.
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Formal Spanish is taught in all parts. The problem is that we don't use much what it says on the books. Every region has different ways of talking, different words for one thing, but most of the time, if you use formal, most of the people can understand what you might want to say. Just saying.... Ah.. one more thing, it would be more polite to say: American Spanish vs. Peninsular Spanish or America vs. España. You know...we consider North, Central and South America to be just one big continent.
