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#10 - Spain Spanish or Latin American Spanish? Here’s What You Should Know · Spanish for Beginners with Marco

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  information, visit www dot patron dot com. Forward slash Latinelle And now let's
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  get started with the episode Bambos getco moteva. Welcome to a new episode of
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  Speaking Spanish for Beginners. Meiamo Marco. So the tile is so I'll Podcasts
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  a podcast for Spanish beginners who want to have their first conversations with your amigos
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  latinos Latino friends. This episode answered there's a questions that a lot of my
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  students ask, what is that? Well, they normally ask what are some
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  of the differences between Latin American and European Spanish? Are there any differences at
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  all? And to answer that question, I decided to create this episode Esticilypie
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  of you bound Espanol Latin Americano Espanol Europe. Any differentiation between these two regions
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  runs the risk of over generalization because Spanish is spoken in a vast territory.
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  That's the truth. What do you mean, Well, you can find differences
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  even within the same country. I'm sure that if you study with a tutor
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  from Spain, from the Canary Islands or Valencia, the way they speak will
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  be different from a person from Madrid. That's also the case in Latin America.
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  There are common features in the way we speak in this region, but
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  also a lot of differences. I, for example, being from Chile,
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  we share a lot of vocabulary with South American countries biases South Americanos. Just
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  to illustrate this idea, the world for avocado in many countries from South America
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  is called palta b are ale they are palta. We see palta for avocado
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  in Chile, Peru, uru Way, Argentina, Bolivia, but in other
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  Latin American countries they call it a wakati are Hey, who are say?
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  Are they act mangantala palta. Well, they're just the same. So keep
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  that in mind for this episode. But we can not deny that Latin American
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  countries have more in common compared to European Spanish. Actually, that's why when
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  there is a movie from Hollywood that originally is in English. When it's dapped
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  into Spanish, you have the Latin American version and the European Spanish version.
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  And when a Latin American person watches the European version, it feels strange.
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  But it's the same feeling people from Spain gate when they watch the Latin American
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  version. So this is a contrast that even has a commercial impact if you're
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  a movie maker. So let's see three clear examples between these two regions.
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  No metal, oh no. The prano bostros what is bosatrius? Bosotros is
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  a prano. It means you in the plural form bostros. I'm sure you
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  have seen it in many materials created to learn Spanish, because most of the
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  material created to learn Spanish is created in Spain. We're eight percent of the
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  total population who speaks Spanish live, but we don't use it in America Latina.
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  Instead, we use the planoun who stais, that's the planon we use
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  for you in the plural form who STIs. Don't they use your status in
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  Spain? Then well, that's a good question. A testbook will normally say
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  that in Spain they use u statis informal situations, and bostros with friends.
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  But to be honest, I've never heard a person from Spain saying U statis.
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  Well, probably because I've been with them in friendly situations, That's probably
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  why. But that distinction between us theis and bostros does not exist in Latin
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  America. We just use U statis in a formal and informal situations. And
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  why is this important? Because us thetis ambo sotros have a different conjugation.
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  For example, if I'm asking to a group of people, how are you,
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  it will be commos tie using bostros and como estan using ustevis comos tis
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  como istan. If you are a regular listener, you might have realized that
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  I never used bostros, and that's because it doesn't feel natural to me.
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  I would say commo stan to greet you all, but never como is thie.
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  So there you have it. If you're coming to Latin America. One
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  less conjugation to learn, isn't that simple? Let's continue nu metal those the
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  pronunciation of the letter Z and C. This is another feature that is different
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  in the two regions. In many areas of Spain, as in the capital
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  Madrid, they pronounced the letter z and c as eta and fay with the
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  tongue between their teeth, similar to the sound of the th h in English.
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  That's why an important word like beer in Spain they would pronounce itsa.
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  In Latin America we don't pronounce it that way. We turned the sound of
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  the letter Z and C into a regular s. So here in Latin America,
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  for letter Z we say seta, a letter C we say say so.
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  For a beer, we just say servesa so missa migos for the beer
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  was delicious. People from Spain would say, But in Latin America we would
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  says, do you hear the difference? Say with me last servesa estava deliciosa
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  cheers, salute, and finally, no medal race the word kocher. If
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  you are with kids in the car, just note that this is not a
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  podcast for kids. And why am I saying that? Because this term is
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  related to the birds and the bees talk mommy. What is Marco saying?
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  Do you want to have that conversation now so you can stop the podcast now
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  and listen to it later. For this term, if you're just listening by
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  yourself, then no problem. As I mentioned earlier, there are many words
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  that are different depending on the region. Kher spelled say oh he a koher.
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  It's a notorious difference between the two regions because in Spain this verb is
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  used with a lot of different meanings. For example, if you need to
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  pick up somebody from a place, let's say your friend from work. In
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  Spain, they could say or if you need to take the bush. But
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  coher is commonly avoided in many Latin American countries because coher it's a Lang word
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  for to have sex. So when you say I need to pick up my
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  friend, well, I don't need to be aware of your needs. You
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  can change it for ricoher in that case that makes a huge difference, or
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  for boy a coherl bus we use tomar instead boy attmar el bus, not
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  coher ah. That would be painful. So once again, be careful because
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  we tend to avoid the world coher, So just to be clear, we
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  understand it, but we don't use it as often as people from Spain.
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  And that's also why it's important to be aware of some differences depending on the
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  region. And I hope this episode gives you some ideas of what to spare
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  if you visit Latin America and Spain. These kind of differences are just natural
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  in any language that is spoken in a vast territory. I'm sure you're aware
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  of this already because it's the same case in English blay me. That's jolly
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