Wednesday, June 6, 2007

latin american spanish

Mostly my Guatemalan Spanish works just fine here, though from time to time, I simply cannot understand the accent. The most interesting distinction, I think, has to do with my country of origin.

In Spain, land of conquistadores, I am "americana."

In Latin America, land of the conquered and Simon Bolivar and Che, I am "estadounidense." There, Latin America is America, too.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In Canada I was Yankee. Not a compliment.

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