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Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Do they? Duolingo, meanwhile, teaches a Latin American dialect (possibly Mexican), with “ustedes” as the second-person plural. (IIRC, their Portuguese is also Brazilian, which is a greater leap.)

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garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Does it? My partner has learned some very strange words I have never heard used in mexico. But I guess the rest of Latin America also uses different dialects.

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- AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  From what I recall, it does, especially for new words (items like “backpack” and “T-shirt” seem to have almost a different word in each country). Maybe Duolingo’s Spanish is from former south (Argentina or Chile perhaps?)
  
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