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there are MANY different types of dialects of the Spanish language, lets say if a Mexican went to Spain (both speak spanish) they would have a hard time understanding each other.. just like American and England... you may have hard time understanding them and in some ways their vocabulary is different

2006-11-28 07:46:48 · answer #1 · answered by american_eagle_guy1983 3 · 0 1

The main difference is the way each country pronounces the words. They are not "dialects", just generally different pronunciations and accents.
Also each country does have a few native words that do not exist in the other countries, . But people who speak spanish in any country with this language as its native tongue can understand the others...
There are different accents in most latin american countries, the argentinians for example have a very singsong spanish, because in the 19th. century the country received immigrants from 2 countries in Europe...about 50% from Spain, and the other 50% from Italy. The resulting "melting-pot" gave the argentinian spanish it's tone...
There are also several different accents in Spain itself, the most pronounced being the catalonians in northeastern Spain, and the people in the northwest speak with an accent sounding similar to portuguese, the andalusians have the equivalent to what would be a considered a "drawl" in english. Another one is the accent of the people in the Canary Islands, who speak a spanish quite similar to that spoken in Cuba and Puerto Rico...although they are thousands of miles apart!
This also happens in other languages...english has different accents in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom... England has several accents of its own, such as welsh (Wales also has its own welsh language which is af the gaelic family), Kentish, liverpudlian, yorkshire, Londoner "cockney", oxfordian, etc.You also have the irish brogue and the scottish burr... And in the USA you have a southern drawl, texan drawl, bostonian accent, newenglander twang, etc.Some are more difficult to understand than others, but on general terms. Most can be understood by all.
French is also spoken with different accents . French, belgians, swiss, and french canadians alll speak the same language, but each place has a different accent...
Also the italians in Flrence speak differently from the italians in Naples, and so on with most languages that are spoken in large areas of the world...
I love spanish too... It's my second language and I've spoken it for the last 49 years!...at first with a mexican accent, and later on with an andalusian accent, as I moved to Spain, and have lived here over 34 years... (accents also "rub off" on a person, once you have lived a certain amount of time in a place, you start speaking the language the same way the local people do!)

2006-11-28 17:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by abuela Nany 6 · 0 0

The difference is the accent, the words, the way the senteces are made. I'm from Spain and i live around hispanic people in the USA and I can't barely understand everything they say. There are different kind of spanish, but there is no such american spanish. There is Castillian which is from Spain and then there is Spanish with it's variations from every spanish speaking country.

2006-11-28 20:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by Goddess of the Moon 3 · 0 0

there is no difference but where they come from. Spanish basically are from Spain, just like English are from England. There is no such thing as American Spanish. Mexican are from Mexico which are also American and anthing in the New World side is American (which is all the continent) this being said, all from way up there in Canada to the very tip of Chile is American. So Spanish is the language spoken in most of America. Now There are various variations of the Spanish language basically where in the world is it spoken at. Like English in the U S is not the same as English in England. I really hope I made mysel;f clear.

2006-11-28 15:51:53 · answer #4 · answered by lila 1 · 0 1

Well, it's like English spoken by English people or english spoken by Americans. There are some diferences in vocabulary and pronunciation but we can undertand each other well. There are some diferences in the accent depending on the geografical place. Basically people who speak spanish better are in the centre of Spain, in Castilla. The spanish you can hear on the news on the spanish TV channel.

2006-11-28 15:58:30 · answer #5 · answered by redkite 6 · 0 0

All The Hispanic countries speak spanish different, for examp im from Costa Rica & out spanish its different than Mexicans, & its the same with every country. Every country has their own "slang" or way to talk

2006-11-28 16:29:11 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Riley's Mom♥ 5 · 0 0

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