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dutchpilgrim said:Lee is right. Catalan or Catalá is a total different language.
The main difference between Latin-American Spanish and Spanish Spanish (Castellano) is pronunciation and vocabulary. People speaking those two variations of the same language will understand each other.
You can compare it with American English and English English. As do we in Holland with Dutch Dutch and South-African Dutch.
Ultreya,
Carli Di Bortolo.
P.S.
Like pre-windows "" nowadays is
C.
I like that explanation, Valeria! AnneTia Valeria said:Historically, I can remember being told that some centuries ago there was a Spanish king who had problems with his speech. To spare him embarrassment his courtiers copied his pronunciation of certain letters, hence the lisped 'z' and 's'. It wasn't the common language but is still used in some places today, like the differing way of pronouncing 'll' - but we won't get into that.