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Differences in Spanish I am a gringita and just wanted to comment on my experience with the differences in Spanish. I have a beautiful 15 year old daughter from a long term relationship from a Colombian de Bogota. Because he had been here in the states for many years, I didn't learn Spanish from him. When I married a few years later, it was to a Mexican campesino. I learned by listening to him talking with his friends (mainly when they were drinking) and in 3 months understood everything they were saying. I am now remarried to another Colombian from Bogota, and the Spanish is very beautiful. Now I find that I get irritated when I hear Mexican Spanish and I can't help it. There are times when I speak and I know the Mexican accent comes out at times, like at dinner one night with my Colombian husband and his family, I called the straw a "popote" which is what I heard Mexicans calling it and my husbands family thought it was funny....His father then told me "Colombians speak the best Spanish" Now I am taking Salsa classes, but it is all P Ricans and the style of Salsa is different than Colombian style and I want to learn the Colombian Salsa, not the P R....(sigh)
Can any Colombian tell me the basic differences in Salsa styles?