Comments on: Difference between Spain and Latin America Spanish

By: Lisette

Lisette — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:15:50 +0000

@Iain I don’t speak Portuguese so I can’t answer that question.

@Andy The English language itself has traces of many languages including Sanskrit. In doing trade and commerce nations exchange not just money but their thoughts, ideas and words.

Thank you both for your comments.

By: Andy Fossett

Andy Fossett — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:41:10 +0000

That sounds almost as complicated as the difference between Kansai-ben (the local dialect around Osaka) and the standard Japanese spoken near Tokyo.

We also have a lot of borrowed words, called “loan words.” It’s estimated that over 10,000 Japanese words are actually bastardized from English, French, German, and Portugese – though I’m not sure if any are form Spanish.

By: Iain Gray

Iain Gray — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:23:09 +0000

I’d never really come across this before, but I suppose there must some danger of “two nations separated by a common language”, just like the US and UK!

Do you know if there are similar differences between Brazilian and ‘original’ Portugese?

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:10:28 +0000

I hadn’t thought of all the considerations before. Good information!

By: Lisette

Lisette — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:57:30 +0000

Yes, sadly some immigrants lack a good command of the Spanish language and when they come to the U.S. they sometimes are not fully assimilated into society so they don’t learn proper English either, unless they arrive at a young age.

It’s ironic that you would help them with their spelling having learned the language as an adult. They were lucky to have you I’m sure. A person who learns a language as an adult can sometimes be a better, more patient teacher than a native speaker. Thanks for stopping by!