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submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by wendyz@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Hola,

I'm a native Spanish speaker from Spain (I live in the U.S., spoke English all my life with a native English speaking father and my English could be better than my Spanish). Since I am Spanish, we use vosotros. While I heard people in the U.S. learn "ustedes comen", I would say "vosotros coméis".

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[-] uuj8za@piefed.social 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Half of the US used to be Mexico, so US Spanish is mostly Mexican Spanish. We don't use vosotros. My high school Spanish teacher (yes, I took it because it was easy) would always skip conjugations of vosotros entirely.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone use vosotros here. We understand it, but it's very uncommon. Univisión, Telemundo, Estrella, TeleXitos all mostly use Mexican Spanish. Same goes for the radio.

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