What is castellano spanish. How is it different than regular spanish?

Question

Is castellano spanish is that like when they say voz instead of usted or something and use some other words for things than in spanish from mexico or what?

Answer 1

"Vos", by the way isn't only used in Argentina. We used it in CostaRica and almost the whole Central America, besides other countries...

Also, Spaniards pronounce the Z as the English "th", in LatAm, it's simply "s"... They pronounce "s" as English "sh"...

The differences are like British and US English...
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There are losts of differences...

Answer 2

Castellano means the Spanish spoken in Spain. It is a bit different from the Spanish spoken in Latin American countries, but both are intelligable. It's just like British and American English; they have they're differences but both countries can understand each other. Every country has it's own slang and sometimes way of saying things. Finally, yes, Castellano uses vos instead of tú (and a few south american countries do too).

And there's no such thing as a REGULAR Spanish, just like there's no such thing as a REGULAR English. Each country has it's own intelligible dialect.

Answer 3

Castellano or "castillian" spanish is the Spanish "mother toungue"

It is Spanish as it is spoken in Spain. You are correct in that it uses the "voz" or vosotros verb forms. It is also characterized by a sort of lisped "S" sound, which supposedly was adopted by the common people so that a lisping monarch would not feel out of place...

I know of no other version of Spanish that is named for the region it came from in the same way...

Answer 4

Technically, castellano (castillian) is a sinonym for spanish, plain and simple. Think, for example, in the phrase 'ahora en castellano, por favor' (now in castillian, please) when something is so difficult to understand that you think that person didn't tell it in SPANISH. It's the same as 'now in english, please'.
However, some people here in LatinAmerica use 'castellano' to refer to the Spanish spoken in Spain, and good ol' 'Spanish' for the one spoken in LatAm.

By the way, 'vos' (with an 'S'), and similar words are used in the Argenitinan way to speak spanish as well as in the Spanish way.

Answer 5

Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language, and the second (perhaps third or fourth) most spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first language by about 352 million people, or by 417 million including non-native speakers (according to 1999 estimates).