Learn Latin American Spanish
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About Latin American Spanish
About 60% of the population of Latin America speaks Spanish as a native language. This makes up a huge proportion of Spanish speakers in the world - nearly 420 million of about 470 million. Descending from Latin, Spanish has similarities to Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. There are variations in how Spanish is spoken in different countries, with Argentinian Spanish having especially distinctive vocabulary and accents. uTalk has selected the words that are understood in the widest possible area of Latin America and uses voice artists from Mexico and Honduras.
Where is it spoken?
Mexico
Colombia
Peru
Venezuela
Chile
Ecuador
Guatemala
Cuba
Bolivia
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Paraguay
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Puerto Rico
Panama
Uruguay
Number of speakers
418,000,000
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Romance
Fun facts — Spanish (Latin American)
- Whereas in European Spanish the letters z and c are pronounced as 'th' when they come before an i or e, in Latin American Spanish they are pronounced as 's'.
- If you want to say that something is crazy, you can say that it's 'más loco que una cabra con pollitos'- madder than a goat with chicks.
- There are quite a few differences in vocabulary between Latin American and European Spanish - compare 'computadora' for computer, 'papa' for potato and 'teléfono celular' for mobile in Latin America to 'ordenador', 'patata' and 'móvil' in Spain.
- A question in Spanish is marked by a question mark at the end and an upside down question mark at the beginning - like in '¿Qué hora es?' or 'What time is it?'
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Topics
- First Words
- Transport
- Restaurant
- Food and Drink
- Cooking
- Places
- Directions
- Illness
- Doctor
- Body
- Emergencies
- Social Phrases
- Leisure
- Likes and Dislikes
- Football Match Abroad
- Football Commentary
- Sports
- Shopping Words
- Fruit
- Vegetables
- Clothes
- Ingredients
- Home
- Bathroom
- Kitchen
- Tools
- Family
- Occupations
- Animals
- Animals' Bodies
- Farming
- Technology
- School
- Business
- Numbers up to Twenty
- Numbers up to Ten Million
- Essential Phrases
- Adjectives
- Prepositions
- Colours
- Countries
- Calendar
- Time
- Timetable
- Outdoors
- Holiday
- Skiing
- Camping
- Golf
- Sailing
- Driving
- Olympics
- Summer Olympics
- Winter Olympics
- Military Commands
- Military Peace Keeping
- Military Intelligence
- Accommodation
- Shopping Phrases
- Travelling
- Free Starter Words
- Disaster Relief - Volunteers
- Natural Disasters
Get by with basic greetings, words and phrases including 'hello', 'thank you' and 'I'd like a coffee please'.