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Old 09-04-2015, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Polar Bear View Post
I figured quite a few would recommend Spanish. (And thanks by-the-way.) But I have a question. And I have to be careful. I don't want to offend anybody and I will admit a certain degree of ignorance about something...

When you say to learn Spanish, I assume there are quite a few "variations" of the language. Spanish as spoken in Spain. Spanish as spoken in Mexico. Possibly Cuba. Other countries and regions. Am I mistaken? Is there a generally accepted "standard" Spanish language?


I don't know. I do know there is high and low German and when I tried to practice my French by communicating online I soon learned the idiomatic expressions and new ways of speaking make the knowledge of a classic language still a challenge to communicate with real people living and speaking it all of the time.
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