Mexican Spanish fits how you will use it

Your answers pointed to México and Central America, or to a Latin American variety that travels well across that region. This page stands alone: you do not need the quiz to use it.

What you can check

Concrete traits of this variety

  • Seseo

    Written s, z, and soft c are pronounced /s/. There is no /θ/ contrast of the kind taught for much of Spain.

  • Plural you

    Everyday speech uses ustedes for plural you. Vosotros forms are not the default in this variety.

  • Yeismo

    ll and y merge for most speakers. You do not keep a separate palatal lateral as a listening target.

  • Lexical habits

    High-frequency choices include computadora, jugo, and camion for a city bus. Repair talk often uses ¿Mande?

Same meaning

One sentence in all three

Mexican

aquí

¿Es para aquí o para llevar?

Is it for here or to go?

Rioplatense

acá

¿Es para comer acá o para llevar?

Is it for here or to go?

Castilian

aquí

¿Es para tomar aquí o para llevar?

Is it for here or to go?

Where you hear it

Mexico, Central America, and nearby media

You hear this variety across Mexico and much of Central America, and in a large share of Spanish-language media aimed at Latin America. Speaker counts for Mexico alone are on the order of 130 million; with Central America the regional reach is larger still. That size is about contact and media, not prestige.

In the app

A normal day, spoken in this variety

The Camino: places you work through one by one

Carpincho walks you through a normal day in Spanish: a café where you greet, sit, order, ask something, and pay; then a kiosk, a market, a bus stop, a pharmacy. Every sentence is recorded in the variety you chose. When you speak, the app grades whether you would have been understood in that same variety, not against a different norm.

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Places this variety often differs

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