“Mexican is a nationality; not a language. A “Mexican” is a person from Mexico and the language they speak is Spanish, NOT Mexican.”
Except when it isn’t. Mexican Spanish is quite different from Spain Spanish. It’s always good for a laugh when Mexicans (especially of the New Mexico species) explain to you how they are Spanish, not Mexican.
Mexican language is as different from Spanish as the food in both countries is different.
Granted the Spanish in Mexico is a different dialect but it is still Spanish; same for Cuba. In Spain, they speak Bastilian Spanish. It’s all still Spanish. In this nation, we speak English; not American. But, English spoken in South Carolina is different from the English spoken in Massachusetts.
They speak Spanish in Mexico, and we speak English here.
“Mexican Spanish is quite different from Spain Spanish.”
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Other than the lack of the vosotros conjugation of verbs, that’s not the case.
That being said, there are many uneducated Mexicans who speak the Spanish equivalent of ebonics and are functionally illiterate. To judge Mexican Spanish by the way they speak would be the same as judging American English by the way Detroit ghetto residents speak.
The Spanish language (and influence) marks much of Central and South American.
Saying someone speaks “Mexican” is akin to Obama’s remark about speaking “Austrian”.
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