Last year while working on a bilingual package design, the copy handed to us by the translations company, came in translated to what they called: Mexican Spanish. It caught my attention and it made me think about how many kinds of Spanish are being spoken in the US and how Mexican Spanish is used more and/or better understood among the Hispanic community in the US.
Now it is not rare to find 3 different kinds of Spanish dictionaries at the bookstore: Latin American Spanish, Mexican Spanish and Spanish just like any other language dictionary. How interesting!
So remember if you are looking to know how bananas are called in Puerto Rico, Colombia or Spain, maduros, bananas, guineos and platanos, this are all valid. Just check what kind of audience you are trying to talk to, to use the “right” one in the appropriate context. Good luck.
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