Spanish: English Dialect Dictionary

By Sean L. Young

The Spanish language is spoken by 480 million people in about 20 countries. It is also spoken as a second language by an additional 75 million people, putting it in the top five most spoken languages in the world. Because of this, Spanish will pick up and use words from indigenous languages or borrow from other languages encountered creating some variations of words used in conversation.

Designed for students of the Spanish language at all levels of learning, this dictionary will cover as many dialect variations of the Spanish language as possible, including slang and colloquial language to help you understand or be understood when you visit various Spanish speaking countries.

Updates to this publication will be made every month, so be sure to return and download to have the latest copy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sean L. Young
• Release date: Jun 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463883242

Sean L. Young

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Contents

Country Abbreviations

Grammar Abbreviations

Spanish - English Dialect Dictionary

A - B - C - D - E - F

G - H - I - J - K - L

M - N - O - P - Q - R

S - T - U - V - W - X

Y - Z

Helping You Talk to the World

Introduction

Don't Believe the Hype

Keeping it Real

Do You Have the Time to Learn?

Appendix A: Expand Your Learning

Country Abbreviations

Arg. - Argentina

Bol. - Bolivia

Carib. - Caribbean

Cen. Am. - Central America

Ch. - Chile

Col. - Colombia

Cst. Ric. - Costa Rica

Cu. - Cuba

Dom. Rep. - Dominican Republic

Ecu. - Ecuador

El. Sal. - El Salvador

Gua. - Guatemala

Hon. - Honduras

La. Am. - Latin America

Mex. - Mexico

Nic. - Nicaragua

P.R. - Puerto Rico

Pan. Panama

Par. - Paraguay

R. dl P. - Rio del Plata

Sp. - Spain

Urg. - Uruguay

Ven. - Venezuela

E. - East

N. - North

NW - Northwest

S. - South

Grammar Abbreviations

3rd per. - third person conjugation

acc. - accusative

adj. - adjective

adv. - adverb

aux. v. - auxiliary verb

b.v. - boot verb

coll. - colloquial

conj. - conjunction

def. art. - definite article

dem. - demonstrative

dir. obj. - direct object

fem. - feminine

idm.. - idiom

indef. art. - indefinite article

indir. obj. - indirect object

interr. - interrogative

irreg. - irregular

masc - masculine

n. - noun

neg. - negative

neut. - neutral; neuter gender

off. - offensive

pl. - plural

poss. - possessive

prep. - preposition

pron. - pronoun

refl. - reflexive verb

sing. - singular

sl.. - slang

sup. - superlative

v. - verb 

vul. - vulgar

Spanish - English Dialect Dictionary

-- A --

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a - to, towards

abril masc. n. - April

actor masc. n. - actor

actores - pl.

acá adv.

1) here

2) as of, up to

  de un año acá - as of a year ago

actriz fem. n. - actress, actor

actrices - fem. pl.

adonde adv. v. - to where, whither, whereto

  Adonde voy tú no puedes ir. - You can't go where I'm going.

adulto n.