I want to learn a little Spanish, but I heard that there are many branches of Spanish? What's going on here?

Just like American English and British English. Spanish is scattered to countries such as South America. Spanish (Spanish or Castelhano) is the third largest language in the world (first, followed by Chinese and English) and the second most popular language in the world.

About 352 million people in seven continents use it, mainly in Latin American countries. Many Spanish speakers refer to their language as Spanish, while many people who speak other dialects refer to Spanish as castellano. On the other hand, people in Latin American countries prefer the word castellano because Spanish sounds more like a country than a language. Spanish in English is Spanish, which is the English translation of Espanol. But in any case, this language comes from a dialect used in Castilla, Spain.

There are many local dialects in Spain, mainly five kinds:

1, Castilian 2, Galician 3, Basque 4, Gasconi 5, Catalan

Spanish in the usual sense is Castilian. It is the official language of Spain and most Latin American countries. It is one of the six working languages of the United Nations and the most widely used language in the world except English. Because Spanish is beautiful, it is known as the language of dialogue with God.

Spanish comes from folk Latin. It is the most popular Roman language family in the world.

1492 On the morning of August 3, Columbus led a fleet funded by the Queen of Spain and set out from Barros, Spain. Seventy days later, in June of 10, 12 (now Spain's National Day), they solemnly set foot on that magical land. At the same time, they also brought Spanish from the15th century there.

In the United States, there are many native speakers of Spanish, and Spanish is widely used in new york, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California (in New Mexico, Spanish and English are official languages). In addition, Spanish is also spoken in the Philippines, Morocco, Equatorial Guinea and the west coast of Africa. Maybe it's prejudice or it's passed down from ancient times. Many people think that the Spanish spoken by Spaniards is more orthodox, which makes Argentines, especially Porter? O (Buenos Aires) is regarded as the destroyer of western language law.

However, the Spanish writer VictorGarciadelaConcha (currently the president of the Royal Spanish Institute) doesn't think so. He believes that Spanish is a mixed language and has the freedom to combine with local culture, so its vocabulary is very rich, far better than English, which is popular all over the world.

So how was Spanish born? From the ninth century to the thirteenth century, the Moors (Muslims in North Africa) invaded and occupied Spain, and people living in the northeast of Spain began to use a dialect that people communicated with each other. After the recovery of western countries, the king encouraged people to move to the countryside, but the situation of residents at that time was complicated. Jews, Moros, Christians, Franks, Aragones, Navarro, etc. They come from different cultures, so it is necessary to speak the same language. Spanish catered to the needs at that time and naturally became the communication language of ordinary people.

The word "Spain" itself means no nationality. Or don't want to show their native place, businessmen who traveled to and from the European continent in the Middle Ages introduced characters from all over the world. /kloc-When Columbus discovered America in the 6th century, he brought back the "treasure" of the local aborigines. So Spanish itself is not a "pure" language, and Central America and South America have different expressions. Even in Spain, there are dialects in different regions. For VictorGarcia-, the preciousness of Spanish lies in the flexibility to accept different dialects, but Spanish is not.

The popularity of the Internet has become another channel to promote languages. At present, 93% of the content on the Internet is in English, and there are few western websites, with a utilization rate of only 0.6%. Many websites have translated their contents into western languages, and there are many grammatical and lexical errors. VictorGarcia is worried about this. He believes that Spanish is the second largest language in the western world, and its popularity should be the second or third, so it is being established now.