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{Rachael, the Mama of the family}
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Castellano spoken in Spain and in the rest lf the world is as different as English is, spoken in England vs Australia or the US. No biggy
a little idea, not a definite plan....
Due to our various Camino endeavours we have become quite enamoured with Spanish and have thrown ourselves with gusto into learning. I know SouthAmerican Spanish is different to Spain, but we are wondering about spending a couple of months somewhere to focus on language learning. We are familiar with just turning up in a place and learning, but we are wondering whether taking some classes might not be a bad thing too. Living with a local family is the best but would be tricky if we were taking two (or possibly four) kids.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Barcelona uses Catalan. Navarra uses Euskara, and Galicia uses Galician ... all official languages in Spain ... so what you get in class doesn't apply in the street.
Salamanca Spain (where the Castellano is the most 'pure')
Each of those languages is co-official just in the Autonomous Communities (or Community) of Spain that recognize(s) one of those languages as co-official (either in all the Autonomous Comunity or just in part of it. In the later case, it's just co-official on the part of the Autonomous Community where it's recognized as co-official). OTOH, Castilian is official in all Spain.
Euskera is spoken just in part of Navarra (for more info: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Foral_del_Vascuence).
Barcelona uses Catalan in signage, announcements in the metro... OTOH, there are more locals that usually speak Castilian than locals than usually speak Catalan (official data can be found at: www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=eulp&lang=en ).
In Galicia, there are areas where Galician is more used than Castilian and areas where Castilian is more used than Galician.
You are lucky you are on an English speaking forum that isn't a language forum. That statement on a Spanish speaking forum (specially one specialized in language subjects) would probably arise a heavy debate... regardless what city you quoted as the one with the most pure castellano.
Hello there,a little idea, not a definite plan....
Due to our various Camino endeavours we have become quite enamoured with Spanish and have thrown ourselves with gusto into learning. I know SouthAmerican Spanish is different to Spain, but we are wondering about spending a couple of months somewhere to focus on language learning. We are familiar with just turning up in a place and learning, but we are wondering whether taking some classes might not be a bad thing too. Living with a local family is the best but would be tricky if we were taking two (or possibly four) kids.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
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