I have personally seen this many times. People really get upset if they are from say, Brazil, and are mistaken for a mexican. Is there some sort of elitism amongst south american countries that they feel they are better than mexicans. I have also heard plenty of people from Spain that think this way too. One person claimed that the "butchered" version of Spanish that Mexicans speak is basically slang. Anyway I think that explains what I'm trying to find out.
I wouldn't bother or offend me at all to be mistaken for a canadian.

Besides that they are from different regions, of course. I think I am looking for the way it is prepared and ingredients. Any other info would be very helpful. Only mature and genuine responses, please. Thank you.

Please don't make fun of me if this is a stupid question to everyone else, Geography was not a good subject of mine.

I know Mexican spanish, and European spanish, because mexico and some of the European countries speak spanish. The only other place that spanish is spoken in North America is New Mexico, but that's not a country and everyone there speaks English too right? not to mention it is right by Mexico so it shouldn't sound much different. Is Latin American Spanish spoken in South America?

I want to learn to spak spanish REALLY bad because my friends and and my boyfriend speak it. . . . . I plan on marrying this guy someday and i cant understand the way he says things so i think i might learn better if its written in english and spanish.... someone plz help me

I know plenty people born in the USA and can not or will not speak English, so that answers that question
I'm Sorry
A Mexican American President, born in the USA and went to school in Mexico, that is permissible!!

I speak Spanish(and English obviously) but would love to study in Brazil. Do you think I'll find lots of people in Brazil I can talk to in Spanish?

city because of the time of the spanish conquistadors. in mexico city you will find mexicans with blond hair and blue eyes that can pass for 100% white people. the border town mexicans have their own dialects due to the fact that they have mexican indian backgrounds. a mexican american born in texas speaks tex-mex. another dialect derived from the mexican indian language

I'm conducting a survey about views that American citizens have towards this words. I wanna know what comes to mind. In conclusion, I want to experiment if The Black Legend is still alive and active in the United States. If you don't know what the Black Legend is, just googled it and find out if you want, but you dint have to know to answer my questions.

Is it: Espero que estas (not sure how to use spanish letters on this computer) teniendo un buen dia?
Thank you...my boyfriend is cuban, so i'm teaching myself spanish along with listening to his family talk...and he has helped me some as well..Thanks again!

Well I know the basics and a little more, but I would like to become fluent in speaking spanish. Is there a computer porgram or some way to do so that any one would suggest ?

My husband's work has made it their policy that no one can speak spanish at work. The manager was asking all of the english speakers if they were annoyed by the spanish speakers. Today they handed out a policy letter to all employees not to speak spanish.
Do they have a legal right to do that or is it going against freedom of speech and it is discrimination??
There were no customers around- they work in a warehouse.

I'm in high school and I am fluent in English and French. I'd like to learn Spanish, and my school offers a course, but there's no room in my timetable for that. I don't know anybody who speaks Spanish fluently enough to teach me.

Any good websites? If they're aren't any good cookie recipes, are there any other good desert recipes?

Does one set of speakers look down on the other, or view one version of the language to be inferior? Also, is there much communication between the two (I've heard South American TV shows are becoming increasingly popular in Spain, is the converse true)? Would a native of Spain think less of a non-native Spanish speaker if they chose to learn the Latin American version of the language? And finally, are there any problems between understanding each other (or is it merely a different accent, like US/UK English)?

Sorry for all the questions!
Sorry, by "non-native Spanish speakers" I meant to say "non-Spanish speakers"

I want to learn so that I can talk to others who speak spanish.

I want to be able to translate my girl friends email's full body into english

I have investigated "Rosetta Stone" but that is way, way expensive! Then I saw and investigated "Rocket Spanish" which doesn't seem as professional, and might be a little redundant (what do I expect for ?) Any suggestions? Who has actually tried something and succeeded? I'm not good at learning languages usually, but I want to give it a try. I live in Southern California and would love the advantage of knowing Spanish, as opposed to "Spanglish", if you get my drift.
Thanks!

I live in the Southwestern part of the USA. And have been told by Spanish speaking people that are natives of our state that they can't understand the Mexicans from Mexico. And same goes for Mexicans saying they don't understand Spanish.
Yes Chris ,it really is true.
Thank you Manny and Fleck.
It's true that the Spanish people whos families have 10 or more generations here do have very negitive attitudes about the people from South of the border. If one is called Mexican they are are very insulted.

I know this is way old but it is something i always wondered about. He speaks fluent spanish and everything the candidates said was translated into spanish. He could have answered his questions in spanish but he was not allowed, why was this?

I want to tell s Mexican girl who works on the family ranch that I enjoyed the adventure story she wrote.
Thanks. I could have looked it up on babelfish myself as some did but I needed an answer with someone who spoke the language in real life. Thanks

I'm always curious about this that is, what makes one country's cuisine more popular than the others.
Also why Italian cuisine is more popular than spanish one??
Immigration may counts, however, French cuisine is also popular not only in the US but in Japan and several countries. Spanish did conquer the world but not people's mouth. (Pourquoi?)
That is, there weren't many French immigrants in the US as compared to Mexican and Italian immigrants. But French cuisine is popular.

I am an American of German descent and have been learning/speaking Spanish for the past 6 years. I know that many times, when my cousins and I encounter an English speaking person who is not a native German speaker, we often switch to English because my cousins often find it annoying to hear an American speaking in German (I have no idea why). Is this true with Spanish speakers also or is this just my family being too sensitive?

Some type of finger food or any other suggestion. Thanks much in advance.

i have a friend who is from Guatmala..he speaks spanish and this other language also that i am not sure what it is. I ask him what it is called and he just says its called language?? I'm not sure what he means does anyone know?

Spanish is my second language, but I'm pretty much fluent since I used to live in Chile...the thing is, I understand Spanish when Mexicans from Mexico speak it, but for some reason it's difficult for me to understand Mexican American's when they speak Spanish.
This is stupid, but I'm serious...I'm wondering why this might be.
Thanks ^^

I'm a Filipino college student taking up Spanish as a 3rd language (4th, if you consider the Visayan dialect dissimilar from "Filipino"). I've already studied English and am passably proficient at it.

The school offers two Spanish classes, one offering Castellano (Spain Spanish) and another offers Latin American Spanish.

I'd like to learn both, and I anticipate working a lot with Latin Americans, but I also might transfer to Marbella, Spain in the near future.

Which learning transition would be less problematic?

Learning Latin American Spanish and then taking up Castellano, or learning Castellano prior to studying Latin American Spanish?

Hi, well Im from Mexico, Do you think that I speak good in english?, and Do you speak Spanish?

Don't just say it's a bad idea... tell me why?

I live in California and I want to learn Mexican Spanish. Do you know of any books or websites that could specifically teach me Mexican Spanish?

They don't come in the original box or with texts, but the texts can be downloaded from the Rosetta Stone website.

I would like to know what people who speak Latin American Spanish think of people who know or are learning "Castilian" or "Spain" Spanish. I have been learning how to speak spanish for a few weeks now with Rosetta Stone software. I am learning so that I can travel to Spain. I would like to try some of my spanish at work with some of spanish speaking co-workers but I don't want to sound like an idiot speaking Castilion when they are from Mexico. I don't want to screw up and make my "s"s sound like a "th" and sound like I have a lisp or something.

He also would do this thing where he would say "boo boo" in addition to his "quack quack" thing... In one of his dvd's he kept complaining about his haircut... he said a stripper said he looked like a "f*cking Monkey"