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**Paul Bunyan** · 08-18-2012, 03:02 PM

Argentinians and Chileans speak the best Spanish outside of Spain. Id say the DR is a close second.

I don't know what you mean by "best"..."best" with respect to what?
And what part of Spain are you referring to?
And at which time period?

I am sorry to say you are confused about many things.

The language spoken in the DR is a closed descendant from the language spoken even today in Southern Spain. For example not pronouncing the final "s", not pronouncing the final "r", replacing "ado" with "ao" in verbal forms all come FROM SPAIN, specially from the South...and some of those are also used in other regions of Spain (and of course in other Castellano-speaking countries).

Why then in school were you taught that those practices were 'wrong'? Simply because the 'official' Spanish, or rather Castellano, is based on the language spoken...surprise, surprise, surprise...in Madrid....which 'coincidentally' is the capital city and historical centre of power of Spain...Shocking??...you can bet that if the centre of power in Spain was or had been Sevilla (South) many of the 'wrong' forms of Castellano were the officially correct ones...

By the way, the Argentina dialect is VERY different from that spoken in Spain and in most other places...in particular, the form they use for "tu", "vos", completely change the CONJUGATION of the verb in all tenses...that is a GRAMMATICAL difference...of course that does not make it 'wrong', just different....their accent seems to have strong influence from Italian (which would NOT be surprising).

To conclude, there is no 'wrong' Castellano, just NON-STANDARD one...The advantage of standard Castellano is NOT that it is "correct" or "better", but rather that it enables Castellano-speakers from around the world to communicate with each other with minimal effort (by sticking to the STANDARD form)...that is ALL.

P.S. Some regions in Spain have their OWN LANGUAGE which descends directly from Latin just like Castellano...for example Catalan and Gallego...And the Basque language does NOT even descend from Latin...it is not even an "Indo-European language! Which is why I have used the word "Castellano" instead of Spanish.

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Paul Bunyan Join Date Jul 2007 Age 59 Posts 4,495 Senior Member	Argentinians and Chileans speak the best Spanish outside of Spain. Id say the DR is a close second. I don't know what you mean by "best"..."best" with respect to what? And what part of Spain are you referring to? And at which time period? I am sorry to say you are confused about many things. The language spoken in the DR is a closed descendant from the language spoken even today in Southern Spain. For example not pronouncing the final "s", not pronouncing the final "r", replacing "ado" with "ao" in verbal forms all come FROM SPAIN, specially from the South...and some of those are also used in other regions of Spain (and of course in other Castellano-speaking countries). Why then in school were you taught that those practices were 'wrong'? Simply because the 'official' Spanish, or rather Castellano, is based on the language spoken...surprise, surprise, surprise...in Madrid....which 'coincidentally' is the capital city and historical centre of power of Spain...Shocking??...you can bet that if the centre of power in Spain was or had been Sevilla (South) many of the 'wrong' forms of Castellano were the officially correct ones... By the way, the Argentina dialect is VERY different from that spoken in Spain and in most other places...in particular, the form they use for "tu", "vos", completely change the CONJUGATION of the verb in all tenses...that is a GRAMMATICAL difference...of course that does not make it 'wrong', just different....their accent seems to have strong influence from Italian (which would NOT be surprising). To conclude, there is no 'wrong' Castellano, just NON-STANDARD one...The advantage of standard Castellano is NOT that it is "correct" or "better", but rather that it enables Castellano-speakers from around the world to communicate with each other with minimal effort (by sticking to the STANDARD form)...that is ALL. P.S. Some regions in Spain have their OWN LANGUAGE which descends directly from Latin just like Castellano...for example Catalan and Gallego...And the Basque language does NOT even descend from Latin...it is not even an "Indo-European language! Which is why I have used the word "Castellano" instead of Spanish.
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