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

Greater use of familiar forms is part of it, but that's not really a difference from what you called regular - all Spanish has the tu forms; some just use it more frequently.

The main difference is in pronunciation of some combinations - particularly "c", "z", and "d". In Castilian Spanish, z and c (before an e or an i) are pronounced with a th sound. The words cocer and coser (cook and sew) are pronounced essentially the same through the rest of the Spanish world. In Madrid, it's cother and coser.

A couple of other differences involve "d". A final "d" is pronounced lightly, if at all. A Castilian sounds like he calls the city Madri - no "d" sound. Also, the "d" in the -ado, -ido, etc. endings comes awfully close to a "th" sound also. It's like cuidado becomes cuidatho.

Answer 2

Castellano IS Spanish, it's the name of the national dialect of Spain, and CASTELLANO is what ALL LATIN AMERICANS SPEAK, you see there are other dialects in Spain, Basque and others, but Castellano is the one the Spaniards brought with them to the Americas, the Philippines, and the Canary Islands and Castellano is what is known to English speakers as "Spanish", which angers Spanish people whose native dialect is not Castellano, such as people from Barcelona

Also, if you're learning Spanish in Mexico, stop and go to another country, because it's best to learn it from Spain or Argentina instead of Mexico, because truthfully, Mexican Spanish is viewed as low class by many Spanish speakers around the world, it's the equivalent of talking like a hillbillie in the U.S., and I'm sure you don't want to sound like that, hehe =) I'll probably get thumbs down from disgruntled mexicanitos pateticos, haha

Answer 3

Castellano is from Spain. They use tu almost all the time instead of Ud. Voz is from South America.

They use the Vosotros and tu forms all the time. Other than that there are some vocab differences, but grammar is basically the same.

Answer 4

Castellano comes from Castilla (A province in Spain), and it is the kind of Spanish language people in Spain speak. In Latin America, Spanish tends to vary in every country. There are differences in word meaning, pronunciation, intonation.

The Vos stuff is used in Colombia, Argentina and Zulia (a state of Venezuela).

Answer 5

castellano is spanish, just a fancy word for it, most people use it in spain, becuase there are different languages there, but it's spanish as we know it, some say vos and vosotros and all that, but you can refer to the spanish we speak in general as castellano if you want

Answer 6

There are different forms of Spanish. Castillean Spanish is, I believe, the classical Spanish of Spain. South Americans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans all use differing forms of Spanish.