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I'm an Australian who learned Spanish in Mexico and has put it to use in Andorra, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, and Spain. (Yeah I know Spanish isn't official in two or three of those countries but I ended up using it anyway at least some of the time.)

Sometimes people try to tell me I'm fluent but I'm definitely not.

I have a collection of monolingual and bilingual Spanish dictionaries that I've bought, many second hand, on my travels. I always look for a dictionary of regionalisms in each Spanish speaking country. I don't always find one.


Nov
15
revised How important are accents in written Spanish?
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Nov
15
comment How to pronounce the consonants “y” and “ll”?
If you're going to call something correct or incorrect for a language you should really state by which standard. As far as I'm aware by the RAE /ʎ/ is correct if anything is.
Nov
15
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Nov
15
comment How to pronounce the consonants “y” and “ll”?
I was going to vote you up because your first paragraph is better than most of the other answers, but your second paragraph just doesn't make sense so I had to vote down instead sorry.
Nov
15
comment How to pronounce the consonants “y” and “ll”?
I've also heard this pronunciation used by some speakers in Mexico. Perhaps from a certain area or perhaps affected.
Nov
15
comment How to pronounce the consonants “y” and “ll”?
It depends on the variety of Spanish. There is also a third pronunciation, the palatal lateral approximant /ʎ/.
Nov
15
comment Unclear why to use “A vuestros hijos” instead of “vuestros hijos”
In my opinion the answer you are looking for is this personal a mentioned by Flimzy and Arthaey.
Nov
15
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