Spanish

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I’m studying Latin American Spanish

Motivation and Background

I see and hear lots of Spanish around me in my day to day life, and I would like to be able to understand and engage with those particulars.

• Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language in the USA

• Mexican Spanish is the standard dialect of American Spanish. (Castillian/Peninsular Spanish is spoken in Spain.)

(how-to) Typing

• Inverted question mark: Shift + Option + /
• Inverted exclamation mark: Option + 1

Tools

Primary Daily tools

• Duolingo

• Memrise: https://www.memrise.com/course/1387894/spanish-mexico-1/

• Clozemaster: https://www.clozemaster.com/languages/learn-spanish-from-english

Vocab and flash cards

• Free rice: http://freerice.com/frapi/category_selected/17576

• Tiny Cards

• Bliu Bliu: https://bliubliu.com/en/learning/topics/es/

Reading

• Wikipedia

• BBCMundo

Podcasts

• Coffee Break Spanish - Dialect: Mid-land Spain, but they do a good job of pointing out differences between Spain Spanish and Latin Spanish. The hosts are super Scottish! Their accents are amazing!

• Duolingo Spanish

• News in Slow Spanish

Other resources

• https://spanishobsessed.com/

• https://www.lengalia.com/en/placement-test.html

Music

• Cafe con leche

• My fork of Cafe con Leche (removes English language songs)

Dialects

• Peninsular

• Mexican Spanish: 20% of the world’s Spanish speakers

• Argentina: Rioplatense

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rioplatense_Spanish
  • voseo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voseo

• Colombian: Antioquean / Paisa

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisa_Region#Language

Travel ✈️

Places I’ve been and tried to speak Spanish

• Mexico 🇲🇽
  • Tijuanna
  • Puerto Vallarta
• Argentina 🇦🇷
  • Buenos Aries 😍
• Uruguay 🇺🇾
• Colombia 🇨🇴
  • Medellin
  • Cartagena