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What are the different dialects of each Spanish speaking country?

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updated Nov 10, 2014
posted by Tish_

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El catalán es TAN diferente que no comprendo nada de lo que oigo. Para mí es tan incomprensibe como el vascongado. La mayor parte de los dialectos de España comprendo bastante bien salvo el gallego. He leído artículos y libros escritos por Gallegos, pero el entenerlos cuando hablan me es imposible. Más fácil comprender a un Puertorriqueño or a un Cubano,o Talvez un Marciano o klingono. LOL. Nota: yo no puse las letras mayúsculas el las nacionalidades, es el sitio Spanishdict que tiene la culpa..

updated Nov 6, 2014
posted by Daniela2041
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Well, the Spanish-speaking world doesn't have that much variety. You will find that some areas have different terms for the same word. For example, in Argentina, the word "bean" is poroto. In Mexico, the word used is frijol. In Spain, they say judía.

Some areas have distinct grammar. For example, Spain uses vosotros, which is the informal plural you form. It is conjugated áis/éis/ís.

In Argentina and Uruguay, they use the voseo form. This is the informal singular you. No word in the form stem-changes. For example, they say Vos tenés, Vos querés, Vos volvés.

Chile has a very distinct dialect, but I don't know much about it, so I can't tell you what it consists of.

updated Nov 5, 2014
posted by bben15
Correct. Just in England they have several dialects too. :) - chileno, Nov 5, 2014
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Well, the Spanish-speaking world doesn't have that much variety.

Have a conversation with someone from Chile, then Columbia, if that's not 'variety' enough for you, talk with someone from the Dominican Republic, then Peru. If you're still not convinced there's not much variety, have a conversation with a Cuban, then a Mexican from Oaxaca, Mexico. and there's more. But, just to be clear, I'm only talking about differences in accents, not the different words that people in different countries use to express the same thing. To me, it's a lot of variety, but that's only because of my personal experience, your mileage may vary smile

updated Nov 5, 2014
posted by Jack-OBrien
It's sort of like the differences between Aussie English and American. You not only have the different in accent, but the vocabulario is also very different. - Daniela2041, Nov 5, 2014
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I don't want to dissapoint you but only in Spain you can feel a great difference between regions. For example for the people of the north of Spain, sometimes is difficult to understand the people from my region (Andalucia), In each region the people has different accents (Galicia, Pais Vasco, Cataluña, Andalucia, Madrid,...)

If this happens in Spain, in other spanish-speaker countries the differences are greater..

updated Nov 4, 2014
posted by txustaboy
Si us plau, isn't Catalán a different language ;-) ? - Faldaesque, Nov 3, 2014
I talk about the spanish speak in Cataluña (and in the other regions). - txustaboy, Nov 3, 2014
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It is better heard than articulated. Watch a movie from Cuba, México or Dominican Republic and compare any of them to a film from Spain. You will hear an immediate difference.

updated Nov 3, 2014
posted by VeeDraws
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Ikr! Like whats the whole point of being corrected when you miss things

updated Nov 10, 2014
posted by Alida_Alicia
?? - rac1, Nov 3, 2014
Just a guess: "I know, right!? Like, what's the whole point of being corrected when you miss things?" - 00ffada9, Nov 6, 2014
Alida_Alicia: Could you please expand on your question? I don't get it. Maybe it's an English problem for me. - Daniela2041, Nov 7, 2014
Ha very funny - Alida_Alicia, Nov 10, 2014