By Sarah-Claire Jordan As anyone who has studied or traveled around Latin America knows, every country has its own unique dialect of Spanish, complete with fascinating slang words and phrases that can sometimes end up becoming part of the everyday language. In the case of Argentina, however, the slang that developed in Buenos Aires starting […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Latin America is that amazing region of the world that begins in Mexico, includes many Caribbean islands, and extends down to the tip of South America. As most people know, the dominant language spoken there is Spanish, with Brazilian Portuguese coming in second. What many people don’t realize, however is that one […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Most people know that the official language of Colombia is Spanish, with around 99% of the population speaking it. However, since this is Latin America, a land conquered and colonized by Europe, there must have been languages spoken there before the Spanish came and claimed the area as their own. The same […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan It’s no secret at this point that Spanish spoken by a large number of people in the U.S. It just happens to be the second most spoken language in the U.S., with 45 million speakers, native and non-native, throughout the country. In terms of geography and history, it makes sense that there […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan First of all, what is Spanglish exactly? It simply refers to the intermingling that goes on between English and Spanish in areas where both languages are spoken. It’s not a language in its own right, and depending on the area it’s used in, can be more Spanish-based or English-based. Now that we […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Basque Country and everything associated with it may have a bad connotation for those who remember the violent attacks in the late 60s and 70s by a Basque separatist group, but that’s only one small sampling of a people with a unique culture and language. Nowadays, the Basque people have autonomy in […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Galician is the language of Galicia, an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain, right above Portugal. It is part of the Ibero-Romance language family, along with Portuguese, Spanish, Asturian, and Aragonese. Like most other languages spoken in Spain that are not Castilian (another name for the Spanish spoken in Spain), Galician […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Catalan is a language spoken mainly in Spain, particularly the region known as Catalonia, from where it gets its name. Depending on the area, Catalan is either only spoken at home, spoken at home and taught in school, or only spoken by older generations. In the region of Catalonia, it is recognized […]
