Spanish CLEP-- Castillian vs. Latin American?

[Johann]

¡No hay problema!

"You say 'español'
I say 'castellano'
Let's call the whole thing off." (With apologies to "tomato/tomato" authors George and Ira Gershwin)

I found an article that explains the usages, here: Names given to the Spanish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It shows which countries prefer each name and the history of the whole thing. I was interested to see that Colombia used the word "castellano" in its 1991 constitution. My granddaughter has a friend her age, (15) who came here from Colombia when she was about 11. She's perfectly familiar with either term, of course.

Here's an opening quote from an article on Colombian Spanish: El Castellano (Español) es la lengua oficial de la república de Colombia...

It's here: Lenguaje Colombia - Idioma en Colombia - Castellano, Dialectos, Lenguas Indigenas, Ingles

I've always been fascinated with all aspects of languages.

Johann

[Maniac Craniac]

The test is in Latin American Spanish- however, don't be too surprised if they throw in a question requiring conjugation of "vosotros".

The accents are not difficult to understand, but the audio quality is terrible. Looking back on it, it wasn't worth it for me to even attempt to practice for the audio portion since I could barely hear anything anyway. The written portion is easy AND is the bulk of the test, which is a huge boon. It's actually possible to pass the Spanish CLEP without getting a single question correct on the audio portion. Since you are statistically likely to get 1/5 of those questions correct anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about it, although getting some practice certainly won't hurt your score either.

[sanantone]

¡No hay problema!

"You say 'español'
I say 'castellano'
Let's call the whole thing off." (With apologies to "tomato/tomato" authors George and Ira Gershwin)

I found an article that explains the usages, here: Names given to the Spanish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It shows which countries prefer each name and the history of the whole thing. I was interested to see that Colombia used the word "castellano" in its 1991 constitution. My granddaughter has a friend her age, (15) who came here from Colombia when she was about 11. She's perfectly familiar with either term, of course.

Here's an opening quote from an article on Colombian Spanish: El Castellano (Español) es la lengua oficial de la república de Colombia...

It's here: Lenguaje Colombia - Idioma en Colombia - Castellano, Dialectos, Lenguas Indigenas, Ingles

I've always been fascinated with all aspects of languages.

Johann

That map makes sense of everything. Being that I'm from Texas, I pretty much only hear Mexican and Tex-Mex dialects.