Mexican Spanish - Latin American Spanish

Mexican Spanish: A Learner's Guide

The Spanish of Mexico — the largest Spanish-speaking variety in the world, with its own distinctive features, its remarkable regional diversity, its deep Nahuatl and Maya inheritance, and the cultural reach that has made it a gateway variety for learners.

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Sobremesa — The Word That Has No English Equivalent

The meal is finished. Nobody moves to clear. Nobody reaches for their phone. An hour passes. Another. There is no English word for this. In Spanish, there is.

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Ahorita: The Word That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

The textbook will tell you ahorita means "right now." It does, sometimes. It can also mean in ten minutes, in an hour, tomorrow, or never. A short study of a deceptive word, and what it reveals about time.

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The Spanish of Mexico: Twelve Varieties, One Nation

If you meet a Mexican traveler in an airport in Buenos Aires, you will probably be able to tell they are Mexican within a sentence or two. But ask where they are from, and the answer will tell you a great deal. Mexican Spanish is not one Spanish — it is at least a dozen.

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Review: Spanish Voices 1 & 2

There is a moment in every Spanish learner's progress when the coursebook audio stops being useful — when the textbook voice, slow and clear, has given everything it can. Lingualism's two-volume Spanish Voices arrives for exactly that moment. On the books that take the next step seriously.

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Review: The DLI Spanish Phone Conversations

Three hundred unscripted recordings in six Latin American dialects, free, and one of the more honest listening resources on the open internet.