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| LanguagePhysics Newbie United States Joined 4144 days ago 34 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 9 20 July 2013 at 2:21pm | IP Logged |
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I'm looking for a course that focuses primarily on Mexican usage.
I prefer traditional courses that are textbook based, with written grammar explanations and lots of vocabulary lists. However, the only courses I've been able to find like that deal with Peninsula Spanish and not Mexican Spanish. The only courses I've found that use Mexican voice actors and Mexican Spanish in general are audio based courses, which I'm not a great fan of. Can anyone suggest a tradtional, textbook based course that deals primarily with Mexican Spanish, or failing that another Latin American dialect. I'm also not a fan of courses that mix different Latin American dialects together and try to pretent them as one dialect. Thanks for any suggestions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4324 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 2 of 9 20 July 2013 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
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In my opinion, you shouldn't worry too much about looking for materials in a specific dialect if you are
beginner. Beyond slang, a few differences in pronunciation and a handful of different words, Spanish language is largely the same. In this link http://www.speakinglatino.com/book-for-learning-spanish-from -mexico/ you can buy a guide to Mexican Spanish, but I think it's for intermediate learners. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ikinaridango Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6123 days ago 61 posts - 80 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, Italian Studies: German, Polish | Message 3 of 9 20 July 2013 at 4:59pm | IP Logged |
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I would tend to agree with nicozerpa. Standard Spanish, which will include the sort of Spanish taught in the vast majority of learning materials from all over the Spanish-speaking world, is largely the same. A beginner's textbook from Spain will almost certainly provide you with almost identical building blocks to one from Mexico, Guatemala or Colombia. So if you've found materials that suit your own approach to learning, then it will likely be worth your time to use them no matter the country the texts are from. This way you'll have a good grounding in the language and it shouldn't be a problem, should you find yourself somewhere in Mexico in the future, to adapt the language you've learnt to local demands.
Once you've built a vocabulary of a reasonable size, you'll be able to supplement your learning with no shortage of materials designed for native speakers from Mexico, which should also help. Who knows--you may even find yourself enjoying pinpointing the differences between the varieties of Spanish spoken in different countries. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 4 of 9 20 July 2013 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the forum, LanguagePhysics! I agree with nicozerpa and ikiniaridango. First, just learn Spanish, then it will be no problem to adjust your speech to fit Mexican Spanish through exposure. In the US there are many, many opportunities for exposure to Mexican Spanish. It's actually quite difficult to avoid it.
This is assuming that you aren't just going to "study" Spanish but will actually engage Spanish in the real world. You can do this by listening to norteña music, corridos and ranchero music, watching telenovelas and listening to radio, and by speaking with people from the Mexican immigrant community in the US. If you are only planning on using a course for your learning, then you won't get much exposure that way, only what your course provides, though most US learning materials tend to be heavily weighted towards Mexican Spanish. Create and maximize your own exposure to Mexican Spanish and you can't help but pick it up, but it all starts by just learning Spanish first. When I first learned Spanish that's what I did. Then I adjusted my Spanish to fit the Caribbean, but I still say "¿mande?". Edited by iguanamon on 20 July 2013 at 6:31pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4666 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 5 of 9 20 July 2013 at 6:12pm | IP Logged |
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PLATIQUEMOS.
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| LanguagePhysics Newbie United States Joined 4144 days ago 34 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 9 05 August 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the replies. From the research I've done, it seems the only exclusively Mexican course available is Platiquemos.
Can anyone suggest other comprehensive courses that focus more broadly on Latin American Spanish as opposed to Castilian? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alamo Joe Newbie United States Joined 4058 days ago 17 posts - 31 votes | Message 7 of 9 20 October 2013 at 12:44am | IP Logged |
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¡Habla! is the closest thing I know of to teaching Mexican Spanish. It's produced by the Cuernavaca Language school in Mexico and it's an adaptation of the FSI course. The dialogues are similar to the FSI course and they are acted out by native Mexican Spanish speakers. It's an older program and no longer in print. You could still find copies on Amazon and other places on the internet.
The only place I know of that has the complete course is the multilingual books website but it's very expensive. Amazon and other vendors only have the two-volume abridged version. If you already have Platiquemos or FSI, then you probably don't really need it since it won't be that different. The videos are very helpful though. They offer various situations and visual cues for when it would be appropriate to use certain Spanish phrases. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kualidu Triglot Groupie Mexico Joined 6204 days ago 93 posts - 102 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 8 of 9 20 October 2013 at 5:41am | IP Logged |
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"Así hablamos" (This is how we speak)is a series of books for Mexican Spanish made by
professors of Mexico's National University. I don't know if you can buy them online but this is the link if you want to check them out. http://www.cepe.unam.mx/cepe.php?tema=hablamos 1 person has voted this message useful |
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