I'm learning Spanish (Spain)..just wondering if it matters what kind of spanish you learn??

Answer 1

From my native speaker point of view: NO, it doesn't matter. You'll be understood everywhere (assuming you actually lean).
You are writing here in English. How difficult for you is to understand someone from Texas, someone from Australia or someone from South Africa? Of course some of them might use words or expresions that you have never heard before. But that does not imply that you need to lear a new language to be able to move there and work.
The same for us Spanish speakers. We understand each other... and some times we find words and expresions we need the other person to clarify.
If you learn, any kind will be fine to communicate with the rest of us.

Answer 2

Not really; apart from a couple of small points of pronunciation and a few items of vocabulary, Spanish is pretty much standard all over the Spanish speaking world, certainly far more so than English. The only thing I would say is that if you in the USA it probably makes more sense to learn Mexcican Spanish - and if you enrol for classes the chances are that that's what you'll be taught anyway - whereas in Europe, Spanish from Spain is more viable.

I'm lucky; I learnt my Spanish in Spain and then acquitred a Peruvian daughter-in-law so I have had access to both European and Latin American Spanish more-or-less "on tap".

Answer 3

One major difference in Spanish Spanish and say, American Spanish, is that there is an extra verb form they use in Spain that is not used in most of the Americas. The plural-you, such as "you guys." American Spanish usually just uses "they," or "them." Of course, dialects, pronunciation, and overall word usage would be different, because just like English, Spanish has all kinds of synonyms that can be used in place of each other, but some countries use certain words more than others.

Answer 4

NO! It doesn't matter.

I am retired Court Interpreter, and from my experience, I consider that 97% to 98% of the Spanish spoken throughout the world is THE SAME(!). The diferrences I found from one country to the next is PREDOMINANTLY in the nouns. I have interpreted for individuals from virtually all corners of the earth, and visited many, many Spanish speaking countries, and have had NOOOOOOO problem understanding others or getting understood. Once you master the idiosyncrasies of every country, which represent a 2% to 3%, you will have NOOOOOOO problem, either.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Hi! Of course it matters, I mean, I'm Italian and I live in Spain since 1997.
There are many types of Spanish accents, it is not the same speaking Spain's Spanish than the Argentinian one, they use different grammar and pronunciation.
Even inside Spain we speak with different accents (you should try to learn Valladolid or Slamanca's Spanish, it's the purest).

I mean, everybody understands you if you learn a neutral Spanish or even if you learn a specific one, but it's different from place to place (people from USA understand people from Ireland, UK or Australia, but there are different words and pronunciation).

There are 4 languages in Spain:
Spanish/Castillian (the main one, the official)
Catalan (just spoken in Cataluña, Valencia and Baleares)
Gallego (just spoken in Galicia)
Euskera (just spoken in País Vasco)

Answer 6

Actually there are 2 main forms of spanish : the Castillan and the Catalan, which is very rare and only spoken in some areas in Spain. So the main language is the Castillan and that's the language we learn at school.

Answer 7

spanish from spain is the original one... That's the one to learn

Answer 8

Kind of - its kind of like learning scottish english for a trip to the US.
However, you will be understood, which is guess is the goal