Latin American Spanish

[ lat-n uh-mer-i-kuhn span-ish ]

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noun

the collective Spanish dialects of the Americas, as spoken in Central America (with the exception of Belize), South America (with the exceptions of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), and the Caribbean.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Latin American Spanish¹

First recorded in 1975–80

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Example Sentences

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But it’s strange to see a game set in Cuba with the option to select Latin American Spanish voice-over when it should be the opposite case.

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Campesino means peasant in Latin American Spanish, but it is a word that signals race as much as it does class.

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Similarly to the way that American English is different from British English, Latin American Spanish has that same differentiation from Spanish — it's the language spoken in Castile and Leon, the Spanish of Spain.

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This bundle gives you access to three volumes of musical language learning for Latin American Spanish, German, French, Italian or European Spanish — helping you mix and match language you already know through 200 minutes of continuous audio.

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“We needed a Latin American Spanish speaker when our players come and sit down,” Kapler said.

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Latin American Latinate

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