What is Castilian Spanish?
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The standard literary and official form of Spanish, which is based on this dialect.\nIt is the mother tongue of about 40 million people in Spain, where the language originated and whence it was later brought by Spanish explorers, colonists, and empire-builders to the Western Hemisphere and other parts of the world during the last five centuries. It is the native language of over 17 million people in the United States, and is one of the official languages of the United Nations. \n\nIs like saying the english from England and the english you speak in America. Well spanish from spain is the proper spanish, the other hispanic countries are just a mix of everything.\n:)
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English\nLatin\nSpanish\nFrench\nGerman (some)\nSign Language
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English language, Spanish language, Christianity.
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some have the fly spanish but heres some to choose from>\nhttp://merchant.cboss.com/ProductList.asp?ID=00149OMCMJONMVGVXCDHOHIMNRHJYPMMXDRPVRFPZBWMDMLSRG&CategoryID=4010
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The spanish are caucasians..\nThere are also some Spaniards of moorish / arab heritage  in Spain...
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The real Latin translation -> Ego meus frater custos.\nThe following are Castilian, the general language of Spain.\nsoy el encargado de mi hermano = I am the one in charge of my brother \nSoy mi encargado de los hermanos = I am my one in charge of the brothers
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I found this website that has a learn spanish chatroom, forum, msn community and plenty of material to learn spanish. It has tests too which is cool.\n\nhttp://www.aprendaspanish.com/\n\nand this is their community..\n\nhttp://groups.msn.com/learningenglish-spanishlanguage/home.msnw
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Spanish.  There is some French influence in the city, however, as it was occupied by the French during the French intervention in Mexico in the mid 1800's.
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Spanish is the official (or an official) language of Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Equatorial Guinea, and of the US territory of Puerto Rico.\n\nIt is also the first language of most of the citizens of Gibraltar, although it has no official status there.
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hispanophone\n\n1. (adj) Spanish-speaking. 2. (n) person who speaks Spanish
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I means soap opera in Spanish.....lol
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The reason why there is Spanish:\n\nIn 133 B.C., consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus defeated the capital city of Numantia in what would be considered modern day Spain.  From this day forward, Numantia (Hispana) was considered a Province or Provincia, which is Latin for "for that Land conquored".  Roman soldiers were stationed in this area, but what is more, army veterans from Rome (a very crowded ancient city) were given farm land out in Spain.\n\nThis part of Europe was run continuously as Roman for hundreds of years and they spoke the same language as they did in Italy (Latinam).  The emperor Trajan came from Spain and ruled at Rome around the year 98.  Starting in the 4th century and developing into the 5th century, the Roman Empire began to weaken through poor rulers, a share in power between the Catholic Church and the imperial family, continuous barbarian invasions from the Germanic lands, and the occasional general who wanted to start a rebellion and become emperor himself.  The empire started to break up into smaller kingdoms such as the Franks (later to become France), the Ostrogoths (Germans who invaded and sacked Italy), The visgoths (more Frank and German people who settle all over the place), The Byzantines (The Eastern Roman Empire, which tried to take back as much land from the barbarians as they could), and many other smaller tribes.  (check out the article on the Suevi just to see how diverse the tribes of Spain were at this time).  This fragmentation and division according to new ethnic lines decreased communication between the former Roman provinces during a time known as the Antique Ages more commonly known as The Dark Ages.  While Roman Catholic priests continued to give mass and speak in Latin for centuries later, it was during this time when the language began to evolve.  By the Middle ages (10th century) it was found that most of the former Roman provinces were speaking a vernacular language that had some similarities to Latin, but had changed significantly.\n\nMany of the Latin words are unchanged such as casa, which is Spanish and Italian for house and Latin for "a house without a basement".  The Romans used Domus (where we get domicile) for an apartment made of stone with a basement.  Because most soldiers and settlers of Spain were typically not very wealthy, they were accustomed to living in single story shanties, hence the preference of the word casa rather than doma in Spanish.\n\nOther words are common between Vernaculars such as "si" (Spanish and Italian for "yes") and "sic", Latin for "thus" or "it is so".  Where the language differs could be explained by introduction of foreign words from Germans or Saracens, evolving seperately from the other Romance languages, or the original language pre-Roman times.\n\nCab drivers in Italy could understand me enough when I gave directions to them in Latin.\n\nThe term "Latin America" comes from the Spanish word Latino, which is what the people of Spain have called themselves for the last 2 thousand years.  First they were Latin, but the language evolved the word to Latino.\n\nI would recommend studying Latin in great detail.  After extensive study, you can pick up fluency in French, Italian and Spanish in as little as 6 months.
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English and a little Spanish
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english and somewhat spanish
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paranguaricutirimicuaro:\n\nits an exercise practice on how to speak Spanish.
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Buena idea. Yo estoy estudiando, y espero que algun dia puedo hablar mejor que ahora.\n\nEspanol es una lengua muy bonita y casi toda la gente en el mundo pueden hablar mas que una lengua y por eso estoy tratando apprender mas que una por mi parte.
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I definitely want to be Spanish