Abcs Of Bay Area Spanish Classes

By Claudine Hodges


Apart from the marginalization of Castilian Spain itself, where the local government of autonomous regions are taking quite successful attempts to revive local idioms, once relegated Castilian for everyday communication. The most noticeable this process in autonomous regions of Catalonia, Basque Country, to a lesser extent allocated Galicia (Bay Area Spanish classes).

Stress in Castilian or falls on the last syllable or the penultimate if the word ends in a vowel or consonant n or s. In case of an exception when writing necessarily put an accent mark over the stressed vowel. The structure of a simple sentence in Castilian: as in many other languages used in construction of proposals direct word order: subject, predicate, complement (eg: El coche es moderno, which means that a modern car). A negative sentences are constructed by adding particles before the verb (eg: El pais no es grande, which means that the country is not large). For the construction of interrogative sentences in Castilian used the inversion, that is to swap the verb and subject; interrogative Es esto. At the same time in Castilian (especially in colloquial) is widely practiced free word order, such as semantic selection, ease of pronunciation, and so on. N.

Dominated by autochthonous Mediterranean languages origin (the ancient Basque language), in coastal areas of language of first colonists to penetrate from the outside (Celtic languages of Galicia, Phoenician Carthage, ancient Greek coastal colonies). All of them subsequently become the substrate Castilian language.

During the 1900s, reaching Castilian is also Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara. It is a used language in Andorra and Belize, but inse countries are not official status. It is spoken by much of population in Gibraltar, but belonging to United Kingdom and therefore have English as their official language.

V in n. E. - VII in n. E .: the final decline of empire and decentralization lead to divergent development Vulgar Latin in former empire in general and in particular on the peninsula. German adverb seized power Visigoths has an impact on the local idioms of Romanesque period. There is a gap between the norms of classical Latin and live spoken language. VIII century. - XII in strengthening .: dialectal fragmentation in Romanesque linguistic divides the peninsula at parallel propagation of Arabic, Muslim conquerors. Strong Arab influence in Castilian will remain until the present day.

According to experts, is currently the nation's Castilian-speaking people one less able to understand spoken language other nation. As stated by King Juan Carlos, "in Castilian - is a single, but a polyphonic voice. This is a single voice, consisting of a plurality of votes, which in varying degrees left from the original configuration. "

Congress has also become a place of fierce debate about the consequences of globalization for the Castilian language. Most of speakers believe that globalization and the development of Internet lead to oversimplification of Castilian and plugging it anglicisms.

Real Academia Espanola) advocates that the term Spanish is used for the language, the term Castilian reserved for the variety that arose in historic Kingdom of Castile and which today is spoken in region of Castile.




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