Chilean Spanish, the Chilean dialect or Chilean castellano has three major influences: the indigenous languages (the Mapuche language and the Quechua of the south), “rioplatense” Spanish and that of the European immigrants of the mid-1800s. The main differences between the Spanish spoken in Chile and other Latin American dialects basically lie in the pronunciation, syntax [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Chilean Spanish
Monday, March 28th, 2011Argentine Spanish
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011The type of Spanish spoken in Argentina is a very different to that spoken in Spain and has various peculiarities. In particular, it is a more melodic version than that spoken in the mother country. Experts say that Argentinean Spanish has the most variations in the South American continent. There is also a noticeable Italian [...]
Ecuadorian Spanish
Friday, March 18th, 2011In Latin America, as in the rest of the Spanish-speaking world, there is a rich spectrum of Spanish variants. While all Spanish-speakers understand each other, each variant has its own peculiarities. There are many factors that can influence the type of Spanish: geographic zone, indigenous people, climate, and culture. For example, Latin American Spanish is [...]
Bolivian Spanish
Thursday, March 17th, 2011With 1.098.581 km2 a little over 10 million people, Bolivia has no fewer than 37 official languages! The Plurinational State of Bolivia (its official name) became independent from Spain in 1825, and much earlier, from the Incan Empire. Its territory, with vast geographic diversity ranging from the Andes to the Amazon jungle, was inhabited by [...]
Argentine Language Academy
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011It was founded in 1931. Given that at first it did not have the characteristics of a “Language Academy”, it was just “associated” to the Royal Spanish Academy. Now it has “associate” status, like the other academies. Its current headquarters are in Sánchez de Bustamante 2663, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Its membership includes the [...]
What type of French to use
Monday, March 14th, 2011In previous articles we introduced the different French variations, and made the comparison with Spanish. While all French speakers can understand each other, as with Spanish speakers, it is not the same French spoken in each French speaking country. We said that while French speakers can understand each other perfectly regardless of the country they [...]
Mexican Language Academy
Friday, March 11th, 2011The Mexican Language Academy was founded in 1875. One of its honorary members, the writer Octavo Paz, has obtained, among other awards, the Cervantes Prize (1981) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1990). The Mexican Academy, which has always been characterized by good relations with other language academies, organized the first Congress of Spanish Language [...]
Seminar on Industrialization of the Linguistic Sector
Thursday, March 10th, 2011It is a reality that the world is advancing and that new technologies are growing in importance in all areas, including our own: translation and interpretation. In fact, I have found dozens of articles about new devices, systems or software that promise to be the ideal “translator substitute”, and it can only seem paradoxical that [...]
French in Africa
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011Spanish is spoken in many countries, and while all Spanish speakers can understand each other, there are as many varieties of Spanish as nations that speak it. Something similar happens with French. While French speakers can understand each other regardless of what nation they come from, the French of France is not the same as [...]
Voice Recognition Translator
Friday, March 4th, 2011We have already spoken a lot in other posts on the progress of technology in the field of translation: translation memories, automatic translators, tools for quality control, the list goes on. There are even software programs that allow us to enter text by speech recognition: just install a small program or plug-in to have them [...]
