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Originally posted by MaggieL
You were under the msapprehension that what' s spoken in Quebec is the language spoken in France. :-) Castillian Spanish will get you funny looks in Mexico, too.
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Tony, when you took French, were you taught the "true" French version? Or, what they speak in Canada (as is generally taught now)?
When I took Spanish in college, they stressed it was basically what you would hear in Mexico. For the most part, they were on target. From what I've seen, there are a few differences in the language, depending on what part of Latin American you're dealing with. Puerto Rican Spanish...that's a WHOLE new ballgame.
Spanish in Spain seems to differ primarily in pronoun usage and idioms. Argentina seems to stay the closest to formal Spanish in this part of the world.