Will I Be Understood?
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Most likely, he's teaching "castellano", which is mainstream Spanish.Beckiboo said:How confusing! So what's the Spanish I'm learning in my course? Is it mainstream Spanish? Our teacher is from Columbia
There are differences in and around Latin America, but the teachers I had in school (Spanish, Mexican and Peruvian) always tried to stick to castellano pronunciation.
Beckiboo said:Will they understand me when I say "me llamo Becki"
How confusing! So what's the Spanish I'm learning in my course? Is it mainstream Spanish? Our teacher is from Columbia
miss boo...........the language is the same, i.e. spanish/castillian, but columbia will have its own dialect of this, which i doubt you will be taught in you classes.
with regard to pronunciation, even in latin american dialects, there is little pronunciation difference (accents sure but pronunciation no). the main differences are pronouncing the sounds ce, ci, z and y. (these sounds vary across the whole of the spanish speaking world and even in Spain itself.
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grego said:
She's already told us that in S.America they pronounce ce, ci etc like we do, with an sssss sound. But in Spain, they pronounce it with a ttthhhh (like a lisp) sound. I'm going to use the S.America version, its much easier
Which brings me onto my second question.... Is it possible for a Spanish person to have a lisp?
Beckiboo said:She's already told us that in S.America they pronounce ce, ci etc like we do, with an sssss sound. But in Spain, they pronounce it with a ttthhhh (like a lisp) sound. I'm going to use the S.America version, its much easier
Which brings me onto my second question.... Is it possible for a Spanish person to have a lisp?
someone will no doubt confirm whether this is a urban legend or not, but apparently the reason why the "th" sound is used is because a former king of spain had a lisp and couldn't pronounce the sound correctly, out of respect for him (or somethin) the sound evolved to be "th".
for the record i use the "th" sound.
grego said:
someone will no doubt confirm whether this is a urban legend or not, but apparently the reason why the "th" sound is used is because a former king of spain had a lisp and couldn't pronounce the sound correctly, out of respect for him (or somethin) the sound evolved to be "th".
for the record i use the "th" sound.
What is a LISP
Becki, Spanish spoken in SOuth America is 99,9% understable here in Spain, there's only light differences in pronuntiation, vocabulary (COJER in Spain means TO TAKE, COJER in Argentina means TO HAVE SEX
) and very slight grammar differences. 
Beckiboo
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silvia said:What is a LISP
Becki, Spanish spoken in SOuth America is 99,9% understable here in Spain, there's only light differences in pronuntiation, vocabulary (COJER in Spain means TO TAKE, COJER in Argentina means TO HAVE SEX
Over here... a lisp is when someone cannot pronounce their S's, instead they pronounce them "TTHH", like the difference between S.America and Spain, one used a "sssss" sound, the other uses a "tthhh" sound.
Sil - It's like if you were saying "Sarah", if you had a lisp, you'd prounounce it like "Tharah"
Oh - and you dont even want to know what Cojer means over here
Beckiboo said:Over here... a lisp is when someone cannot pronounce their S's, instead they pronounce them "TTHH", like the difference between S.America and Spain, one used a "sssss" sound, the other uses a "tthhh" sound.
Sil - It's like if you were saying "Sarah", if you had a lisp, you'd prounounce it like "Tharah"
Oh - and you dont even want to know what Cojer means over here
Understood
I want to know about cojer
Red
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Spain
National or official language: Spanish
Regional languages: Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Galician, Gascon, Catalan
Also spoken in Spain:Fa D'ambu, Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, Kabuverdianu, Portuguese, Tarifit, Vlax Romani, Western Farsi, Arabic, Chinese,
The number of languages listed for Spain is 15. Of those, 13 are living languages and 2 are extinct.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=ES
National or official language: Spanish
Regional languages: Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Galician, Gascon, Catalan
Also spoken in Spain:Fa D'ambu, Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, Kabuverdianu, Portuguese, Tarifit, Vlax Romani, Western Farsi, Arabic, Chinese,
The number of languages listed for Spain is 15. Of those, 13 are living languages and 2 are extinct.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=ES
Red said:
Asturian is Balbe and it's a nearly death language.
Aragonese is a dialect of catalan, as it is Gascon.
The other languages you mention are not proper spanish languages and all of them are spoken by inmigrants who are supposed to speak spanish.
Anyway, the only oficial languages are Spanish + catalan, basque and galician
silvia said:COJER in Spain means TO TAKE, COJER in Argentina means TO HAVE SEX
sil, i can't believe i'm correcting you're spanish
. firstly, don't you mean coger rather than cojer.
secondly, not only in argentina (paraguay, uruguay and mexico too) but coger is much more vulgar than just meaning to have sex............it means to f*ck
grego said:sil, i can't believe i'm correcting you're spanish
firstly, don't you mean coger rather than cojer.
secondly, not only in argentina (paraguay, uruguay and mexico too) but coger is much more vulgar than just meaning to have sex............it means to f*ck
grego you made me look totally silly with the cojer-coger correction
I was being polite witht he coger translation, but thanks for being that explicit