What is the difference in Spanish speaking from Mexico verses Spain? Which dialect should you learn?
I live in Texas and I am trying to learn Spanish. I basically want to teach myself at first, just to learn to communicate a little and some basic words before I start taking college courses for it next semester. I found some audio podcast, but one that I really like states that they are using dialect from Spain and that if you speak with this dialect anyone who knows Spanish will be able to understand. I do know that I have a friend from Mexico that went to Spain a couple years ago and people had a hard time understanding him, but they understood his wife who is also from Mexico. She was raised in a more formal type household and she said that they learned proper Spanish??? Obviously, they are bilingual and I understand everything they say in English and they do not speak English with a lot of slang.
Any advice on which is best to learn and why? Any study tips… especially on how to roll my R’s !
Is like american speaking and british speaking. In this case the american could be the mexican and the british the spanish of spain.
There are few differences like the pronunciation, (the s, c and z)
I think is better the spain spanish.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Is like american speaking and british speaking. In this case the american could be the mexican and the british the spanish of spain.
There are few differences like the pronunciation, (the s, c and z)
I think is better the spain spanish.
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November 8th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Mexicans will hate me for saying this, but the spanish from spain is a much more beautiful language, vacathyon etc as opposed to the sort of staccato spanish from Mexico. Still, latin american spanish would be more useful in TX.
As for rolling your r’s, it’s really a matter of practicing until you get it right.
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November 8th, 2009 at 8:13 am
your "mexican spanish" is latin american spanish. It is different from "spain" spanish. For example, manzanas in latin american spanish menas apples, but in spain it can sometimes mean a street corner.Also, pronunciation is different. I would learn latin american spanish because it covers a wider amount of speakers (ie: colombia, puerto rico, cuba, etc…) rather that just one country (spain)
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November 8th, 2009 at 8:44 am
The european students learn Spanish in Spain and I think that your Spanish must be understandable to all Spanish speakers.
The problem is where you are going to learn Spanish. If you learn Spanish at the street it will be bad because you will learn Spanglish but not Spanish neither from Mexico neither from Spain.
P.D.: I hope that you understand what I want to say.
I’m a spanish woman and I speak here with people from Costa Rica, Argentina, MEXICO… and NO PROBLEM
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