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Paraguayan Spanish

The unique and distinct Spanish spoken in Paraguay today, along with Guarani, has a historical explanation. In Paraguay, the Spanish language brought by the conquerors did not replace the indigenous

April 14, 2011

Cuban Spanish

To understand Cuban Spanish today, we need to look at history. The island of Cuba, along with Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, were the first places the Spanish colonizers

April 13, 2011

Peruvian Spanish

Peruvian Spanish has distinctive characteristics with the respect to the Spanish used in the rest of the continent. Let us examine these differences, then. Peruvian Spanish is the product of

April 11, 2011

Dominican Spanish

When Columbus came to America, in 1492, his ships anchoredat what is now The Dominican Republic. The island, which he named Hispaniola, became the first European settlement in America, and

April 9, 2011

Colombia is a country as big as the variety of its dialects, which have differences in semantics, syntax, morphology and intonation. The northern dialects share similarities with other Caribbean countries

April 8, 2011

Uruguayan Spanish

We mentioned in other publications that, normally, the Spanish spoken in Argentina is called “rioplatense”, an adjective that takes it name from the areas adjacent to the River Plate. However,

April 6, 2011

Association of Spanish Language Academies

As well as the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española), there are distinct Spanish language academies in various countries, namely: Colombian Language Academy Ecuadorian Language Academy Mexican Language Academy El

April 4, 2011

Chilean Spanish

Chilean Spanish, the Chilean dialect or Chilean castellano has three major influences: the indigenous languages (the Mapuche language and the Quechua of the south), “rioplatense” Spanish and that of the

March 28, 2011

Argentine Spanish

The type of Spanish spoken in Argentina is a very different to that spoken in Spain and has various peculiarities. In particular, it is a more melodic version than that

March 22, 2011

Bolivian Spanish

With 1.098.581 km2 a little over 10 million people, Bolivia has no fewer than 37 official languages! The Plurinational State of Bolivia (its official name) became independent from Spain in

March 17, 2011

Argentine Language Academy

It was founded in 1931. Given that at first it did not have the characteristics of a “Language Academy”, it was just “associated” to the Royal Spanish Academy. Now it

March 16, 2011

Mexican Language Academy

The Mexican Language Academy was founded in 1875. One of its honorary members, the writer Octavo Paz, has obtained, among other awards, the Cervantes Prize (1981) and the Nobel Prize

March 11, 2011

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