What countries can I learn excellent Spanish from?

[maghy7]

honestly, I've never heard that one either..... or maybe I have but I didnt know what it meant!

fashionistangeL which city would you recomend me to visit? we want to travel to Mexico and it would be my first time there, I kind of want to go to the beach but I would also want to see the pyramids, for first timers what would be the best to see?

 

[fashionistangeL]

pyramids you can find in the south... like in CANCUN.. its beautiful, if you go dont forget to visit (there in cancun) "X-caret" and "xel-ha"... those are beautiful places with lots of trees and animals and pyramids and you can even swim with the dolphins!!! (dont know in which of the two)... there are beaches in those places also!

If you want to see more typical mexican places you should go to guanajuato, san luis potosi .... very mexican and very nice...

Los Cabos is very very nice also!

where I live, Monterrey, is very nice but not very turistic, maybe just a bit but not really the best...

 

[MulletProof]

Abot Southamerica, I've been there several times and it's quite dangerous, Argentina is probably the less dangerous and european-looking country; and people there are really nice. I actually missed often my freedom in Spain while I was there.​

wow, you sure make it sound like hell. wonder what kind of places you were taken to.

I dont see why people feel so paranoid about South America, it's pretty much like going to the US....you know you dont wander narrow streets at 10pm, alone, with your big 2k camera hanged around your neck because you're pretty much screwed- huge lands with huge populations will always have less control. having figured that out, and knowing your whereabouts, there's little to worry about, people are incredibly friendly and always willing to help others...especially tourists..and not for any fee, they do it because that's in their nature.
Obviously you'll find some greedy people just like anywhere you go to, but i guess that's up to your...common sense.

 

[ultramarine]

About the whole "TROKA" thing .. that's not mexican ... that's chicano or spanglish .. a hybrid that happened when the mexican immigrants had sons and daughters who didnt know spanish but kinda change some words into the language ... people south of the border dont speak that way ... you can see people talking like that on TELEMUNDO on TV or such, but its a spawn of the language which makes the purist belch ...

About whether go to Costa Rica or Colombia to study spanish ... Costa Rica has no army, I'd be terrified to go to some places in Colombia with the awful situation they live in (that's why in here there are more and more and more colombians immigrating!)

 

[amphrosyne]

sorry to be off-topic, but it's because the original is an immensely popular and ridiculous brasilian song....I won't even tell you what it's about...

^ really!!?!? please tell me the name of the song!!

Funk do Popozao? The a has that ~ on top but I cant type it . Its about...big butts?

 

[ShanaLucas]

If you do want an education with Mexican Spanish...and can do without the beach nearby...I strongly recommend:

http://www.baden-powell.com/Asp/

It's located in Morelia, where I have my second home. It's in the highlands of Mexico...great food...great culture...and best of all, it's close enough to Mexico City (the BIGGEST pyramids in Mexico are located there in Teotihuacan), and smaller pyramids are only 45 minutes away. November is a wonderful time because Day of the Dead is celebrated in nearby Patzcuaro.

The teachers at this school are all university grads, and will teach without the Mexican slang.

Perhaps you can incorporate a beach activity into your itinerary before or after classes. Puerto Vallarta, Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa are only hours away. 1st class bus travel in Mexico is very good, IMO, inexpensive.

 

[KatieD]

I would go to Castilla y Leon in Spain, to learn the most "perfect" Spanish, in particular, Valladolid is famed for it's neutral accent. It's maybe not the most beautiful of places but it's where they speak "King's Spanish"!

 

[maghy7]

pyramids you can find in the south... like in CANCUN.. its beautiful, if you go dont forget to visit (there in cancun) "X-caret" and "xel-ha"... those are beautiful places with lots of trees and animals and pyramids and you can even swim with the dolphins!!! (dont know in which of the two)... there are beaches in those places also!

If you want to see more typical mexican places you should go to guanajuato, san luis potosi .... very mexican and very nice...

Los Cabos is very very nice also!

where I live, Monterrey, is very nice but not very turistic, maybe just a bit but not really the best...

Wow thanks! I have a friend who recently went to one of those two places you mentioned above (swim with Dolphins) and she said is beautiful, I can't wait to go, my husband has family in Guadalajara he says is very pretty too.

 

[maghy7]

About the whole "TROKA" thing .. that's not mexican ... that's chicano or spanglish .. a hybrid that happened when the mexican immigrants had sons and daughters who didnt know spanish but kinda change some words into the language ... people south of the border dont speak that way ... you can see people talking like that on TELEMUNDO on TV or such, but its a spawn of the language which makes the purist belch ...

About whether go to Costa Rica or Colombia to study spanish ... Costa Rica has no army, I'd be terrified to go to some places in Colombia with the awful situation they live in (that's why in here there are more and more and more colombians immigrating!)

Agree about the Troca thing, about the situation in Colombia I wouldn't call it awful, they do have problems like almost every country in South America look at Argentina this days, Mexico, Venezuela! or Peru! and the immigration, well don't even get me started, if you go to NY, Miami, LA, Houston you can find thousands of immigrants from all over South and Central America, the immigration subject shouldn't be on the shoulders of some, like what they are doing to Mexicans just because they are next to the U.S. doesn't mean that they are the only ones crossing the border, there are tons of Asians who do the same using their border. (Any way that's another subject that I rather not touch here).

 

[Odette]

I would go to Castilla y Leon in Spain, to learn the most "perfect" Spanish, in particular, Valladolid is famed for it's neutral accent. It's maybe not the most beautiful of places but it's where they speak "King's Spanish"!

Exactly!

You know, no offense to the other spanish-speaking countries.
But look, if you want to learn "excellent" spanish then you need to go to the roots of the languague, the place where it originated and that's Spain. The fist grammar was written in Spain obviously,they developed that languague and it's their languague in a way.

Spain is a GORGEOUS country and I like their accent, I find it easier to understand(love argentinian too, it's lovely).Plus, it is Europe, if you're European it is going to be much more easier to adapt and you have euro in common. I had no problems when I moved to Spain.

 

[kickassgood]

Ecuador

 

[dorien]

talk about bumping an old thread.
i wonder where she went after all.

getting back on topic. i think, something no one bothered to mention,
no matter what spanish speaking country you choose, you will meet people who express themselves differently, even within the same country, even within the same city. social classes. the educated people will speak in a different manner than the working class. plain and simple.

frankly you need not go all the way to the south or to europe. you can learn proper spanish in, LA, Houston or NYC, it depends whom you know. my editor for example, still manages to impress me with his knowledge of the language, and no, he is not a spaniard, i'll keep you guessing where he is from.

a good read, from a blog i follow.

http://blog.lengua-e.com/2010/donde-se-habla-el-mejor-espanol/

 

[paz2992]

I think i agree with some of the old post, i would recomend Spain, basically because its the closest to the native spanish itself.

I'm Chilean, but i wouldnt recomend my country if someone wants to learn a proper spanish. Here we often joke that we dont speak Spanish, we speak Chilean.

We use a lot of modisms and speak really really fast. Judged by other countries we are probably the country with the worst-spanish speaking (if you know what i meant...)

Also i've heard that Perú has a good spanish, easy to understand and learn.

But at the end is up to each person choosing the country. In speaking spanish terms i wouldnt suggest you my country. But not in safe-terms, because we are one of the least-dangerous countries of America, not meaning that you can go walk the streets by yourself past 10pm, that's reckless

 

[Karen0193]

I would not really recommend coming to Panama, but if you do, going to the interior regions of this country instead of the capital.