US vs Spain vs Mexico English word differences!! (Spanish Differences) 

"computadora" from the verb "computar" was chosen by spanish speakers from América because they have more exposition to USA, the word "ordenador" in Spain from the verb "ordenar" in Spain was chosen by spanish speakers from Europe because the machine was introduced from France... "Ordenateur"

It was fun learning some more spanish word differences from Andrea from Spain and Andrea from Mexico! Hope you guys enjoyed the video! -Christina 🇺🇸

There're many differences not just between Mexico and Spain , but also in other countries like Uruguay , Argentina , Ecuador , Colombia or Peru , also differents accents , even though a lot of spanish spoken countries are in America Continent

Well Spain, France, Italia and Portugal share the same latin roots, so for instance for computer, in french it is Ordinateur and so it’s kind of close to European Spanish (Ordenador)

Welcome to World Friends , Andrea from Mexico 🇲🇽 and nice to see Leah aka Andrea from Spain back 🇪🇸

Yay Mexico. I got addicted to these videos. Hope to see more of Mexico!

Leah from Spain is so nice and pretty.... 🤗

Spanish is such an interesting language! Mexico and Spain - same language but different translations! Love it!

As an American I’m more use to Mexican Spanish.

Callie here! Andrea and Andrea were great teachers ❤️ I can now order shrimp and corn in any Mexican or Spanish restaurant confidently 😆

Elote is the corn ear and kernel together, the fruit formed of grains and the body they are attached to. But the cereal is called maíz in Mexico, the same as in Spain. "Elote" is a Nahuatl word.

The Spanish language is very bonito. I really like how does it sound 👍🏻😍

la palabra ordenador proviene de la palabra francesa "l'ordinateur" que es la que se utiliza para referirse a la computadora en frances. De todas formas si dices "computadora" en España todo el mundo te va a entender aunque se utilice la palabra ordenador , pasa lo mismo con la palabra "celular" o "movil" esta ultima es la que se utiliza en España para referirse a un telefono portatil.

6:50 In Mexico, "maiz" is used for the non cooked corn or the corn in the fields. "Elote" es corn prepared to eat and "esquite" es the corn grains prepared with lemon and mayo. But somethimes people exchange the words "maíz" and "elote" like the same. In Nuevo León, they says "elote en vaso" insted of "esquite" 7:55 In Mexico there are arround 200 different tpes of corn: white, blue, yellow, white, conic, sierra, chapalote, sweet, fat, etc.

I went to Spain back in 1991. I knew a little bit of Spanish because we have a lot of Spanish speaking people in our town, but they are from Mexico. I didn't realize that the Spanish so was different. I was at a restaurant and asked for "jugo" and the waiter was confused. It finally dawned on him that I wanted "zumo".

I already knew that Andrea was from northern Mexico, because of her perfect English. North of Mexico is very Americanized, being bordered with the US and many people speak English and Spanglish. I am from western Mexico and our English is eh lol well I can’t speak for everyone because I know a few who do speak English well, but it’s not the same level as northern Mexico

That girl from Mexico must be on a trip because you can totally understand people from Latin America and Spain in spite of the different vocabulary we all use. I'm mexican btw.

Differences many times are for interactions from native languages or nearby foreign languages, for example: Computadora (México)= Computer from contact with the U.S. Ordenador (España)= Ordinateur by French influence. There's a feedback between languages and get borrow expressions from each other.

Having lived and learnt Spanish in Mexico, and then moved to Madrid, Spain for a few years, this was really spot on. I speak with a more Mexican accent and some Spanish people didn’t understand me. Very helpful to point out the differences in words.

In spanish all words that end with "ote" or "ate" like elote 🌽 are indigenous words that come from náhuatl that's why they're only used in México 🇲🇽. Other examples are tomate (tomato) 🍅, aguacate (avocado) 🥑, and chocolate 🍫 which are products originally from México 🇲🇽.

Amo estos vídeos porque comunmente los que aprenden inglés o no nativos de estados unidos, intentamos aprender todo de ellos, para hablar bien el idioma, pero cuando ponen a norteamericanas a aprender español es gracioso porque les cuesta un poco de trabajo comprender las palabras y sus significados, que 1 palabra podría tener 10 significados diferentes por ejemplo y todo depende en el "tono" en que las digas. En verdad me encanta esto, Christine, Callie y las Andreas son un cuarteto genial

I really enjoyed this video, you guys should make more like these. Something about the vibes was so good 😂

The Spanish girl talks and looks like a local girl who would talk & look the same way. Wow it's surprising how many doppelgangers are there in our world even in different continents & cultures.

I love when you guys invite spanish native speakers. However I'd like to see portuguese native from Portugal and Brazil or european french with canadian one. It would be interesting. I love this channel :)

I love those videos. Spite of nationalities, languages , etc, are friendly and nice! If only the world were like that! Greetings! PS. Everybody in this channel are cool and sympathetic, but my favorite one is Christina.

Spanish language is amazing to the highest level Greetings from Libya 👍👍👍👍

Necesito un video de comparación de palabras entre lenguas romances y otras lenguas germánicas. El Inglés ya no es algo tan interesante, ya que se volvió universal.

Missed you there for a minute Christina, glad you're back.

More spanish comparison videos please. I'm enjoying it so muchhh

They could also bring some people who speak Portuguese, both Portuguese from Portugal and Brazilian Portuguese. It would be really cool, after all Portuguese is also a European language! 🇵🇹🇧🇷

« Ordenador » from « ordinateur » in french 😉

Maíz is just the grain, Elote is the whole stuff (corn comb and grain) In (most part of) Latin America the Z,C and S are pronounced the same way, while in Spain each letter has a very distinct pronunciation But in some parts of Spain they have a very similar pronunciation for those letters like in LAT, most of it in Andalucía or Canarias. It's called "seseo" in Spanish, the condition why there's no difference between S and Z

Colombian here, it’s really cool that each country has like their own dialogue.

Como siempre las mujeres españolas dando ejemplo de belleza y sencillez

I completely loved and enjoyed the video! I am from Mexico and I love the fact that Spanish is my mother tongue because we have tons of differences not only between Spain and Mexico but between all the Spanish-speaking countries. Andrea represented Mexico very well in this video because she knew, said and clarified some very accurate things about Mexican Spanish. It's not true that we can't understand the other Spanish-speaking countries. We can perfectly understand each other like an American or a British English speaker, it's the same language but with different accents. Word differences: 1:35: Computadora 🇲🇽, Ordenador 🇪🇸. Some other countries use "computador", like Chile and Perú; computadora is not a translation from English, we just take the same concept and adapt it in order to understand it in our language. In Mexico we say "mouse" for the device 🖱️ and "ratón" for the animal 🐁. 2:57: Yes, there's a swear word here (2:47). That word is "ρυτα", which means "ɰʜσʀε" or "s˥υτ". 3:24: Camarón 🇲🇽, Gamba 🇪🇸. We'd never say "gamba", but we understand its meaning. 3:59-4:05: No, haha, our national dish do are tacos, Andrea was just being hilarious. 4:06-4:15, 4:33-4:44: Hahaha, they were just freaked out when Andrea spoke fast, but yes, we natives naturally speak that fast. 4:47: Jugo 🇲🇽, Zumo 🇪🇸. 5:04-5:15: we don't even say "zumo" but we will pronounce it "sumo", not "thumo". This 'cause in all of Latin America (not just Mexico) the "z" (and "c" before "e" or "i") sound the same as the "s". In Spain those letters sound like the "th" in English. And yes, we sometimes have trouble to pronounce that. The word "sumo" means the same in English and both Spain and Mexico (and Latin America). 6:12: Elote 🇲🇽, Maíz 🇪🇸. Okay, let's clarify something: in Mexico, "maíz" means "corn" and "elote" means "corn on the cob/corncob" (the Spanish word "mazorca" is the standard word for "corn on the cob", "elote" is just a Mexican word. In Argentina they say "choclo"). I think Andrea said "elote" because she saw corncobs, but here (Mexico) corn in general is "maíz", not "elote". 6:30-6:45: Yes, "elote" is also the name of a Mexican dish, like Callie mentioned, but that dish's full name is "elote preparado" (Mexican street corn), we just shorten the name to "elote". 6:45-6:57: Ok, there's another Mexican corn dish called "esquite" or "esquites" ("chemice" doesn't exist. Andrea just forgot the word), but that dish is very different and it consists of boiled corn kernels served in a cup with mayo, lime and other ingredients plus some spicy sauce and/or chilli powder. That dish is the one that's known differently depending on what part of Mexico you are. In some places they say "esquite" or "esquites" and in some other places they say "elote en vaso" (corn in a cup). Andrea was thinking of THIS dish when explaining to Callie, but Callie was thinking of the "elote preparado".

I can understand Maíz and Elote as the same thing, but in my country it's called "Choclo".

I'm really happy to see you again in videos Cristina 🥰😘♥

Soy brasileño y para mí es una gran ventaja hacia entender español. Para extranjeros creo que el mexicano y colombiano son los más fáciles.

Que mal me ha caído la mexicana

Talking about the "z" sound in Latin America, that's sounds like an "s" there... I have a funny story about that: sand in Catalan is called "sorra", and it sounds exactly like "zorra" in Latin American, which literally means "female fox", but it also means b*tch 👉🏽👈🏽😅. Oh! And corn in Catalan is called "blat de moro" which literally translates into "moor's wheat". I don't know why but that's how this is called. Nice video! Best regards from Barcelona!

I'm an American who lived in Mexico for about two years and who speaks Spanish fluently with a Mexican accent. I have a ton of funny stories about speaking Spanish with other Latinos and Spaniards. Every Spanish-speaker must be careful while traveling because one word can have many different meanings and some are very vulgar. Soy estadounidense que vivó en México por casi dos años y que sabe hablar español con fluidez y con un acento mexicano. Tengo un montón de historias bien chistosas sobre cuando yo hablaba español con otros latinos y españoles. Cada hispanohablante debe tener mucho cuidado cuando anda de viaje porque cada palabra pueda tener muchos significados y unos son bien vulgares.

All very beautiful ladies! Andrea from Mexico is HILARIOUS too!🤣 Love these episode!

Love this show keep it up ...love from India

There are times I think I’m doing okay with my Spanish (English if my 1st language), but then I go to speak to a native Spanish speaker and I’m like, “Can you talk to me like I’m 5?” 😉When you don’t use it everyday it is easy to forget things.

I am from Chile and many words are used in Mexico we also use them we use more Mexican words than from Spain.

Christina's back finally😁😁 Great one.. But when are u getting India guys??

Omg, I so love this one .. yeay Christina! 😃 .. more than the "British and Commonwealth" series 😆 Sorry Lauren 😁

Hi Christina, Callie, Andrea, and Leah! Andreas facial expression was funny… Leah wants to learn Spanish bad words?! Yikes.. omg or in Spanish, adm, aka ay dios mio. I enjoy this channel. Spanglish woo hoo

Yo soy de México y sé hablar el Español de España y también sé pronunciar "Th" en Inglés y "Z" "C" en Español de España

In Germany Computer is Rechner (also Calculator) while in Sweden is Dator (like for Data). In Spanish, Calculator would be Calculadora, similar to the derivative Computer => Computadora (Latin American Spanish). Ordenador (Spanish) is (not surprisingly) similar to Ordinateur (French).

These women are so charming. Love how they are teaching pronunciations.

how to pronounce za - ce/ze - zi/ci - zo - zu, Spain's way: thank🇬🇧 - theft - think - thorn - tooth (last word backwards)

In Spain we use camarón as well. The difference is the size: small type is camarón, medium is gamba, Big is langostino and superbig is gambón. We even have a flamenco singer called Camarón. I dont know why the spanish Girl didnt say anything. And please, somebody can explain to Andrea that the sound z is more soft? She looks like a american trying to do the r sound, tooo much strong... It sound ugly because she is doing It badly on purpose. México has many words from their neighboroughs usa and the mexican natives, but Spain has many words from their neighboroughs France, and other languages as Italian, greek, árab and romaní. Thats the big difference.

I'm from guatemala 🇬🇹 and we pronounce very similar to Mexico we say elote..but we call maiz just to each grain .....and zumo I think it's crazy 🤪...but it's understandable

Actually computer used to be computadora in Spain too, at least in the last century, but on this century we started to say 'ordenador' which comes from the french word 'ordinateur'. In general in Spain we have more influence from the UK and France

6:23 In Germany we call it Mais 😂

Fellow Americans (& other non Spanish speakers), the Spanish speaking community would like to address the fact there’s a whole lot more to Spanish than what the stereotypical Mexico & Spain, that you have been accustomed to. For most of you, those are the main countries to come to mind whenever you think of the language. The same happens when it comes to English. Even though, there’s many english speaking countries, The U.S. & Britain (England) are the most commonly portrayed by media outlets. That being said, even though each and everyone share the same basic roots of their native language, doesn’t mean they’ll be identical. It all varies by regions/locations, social economic status, education, etc. Hope this helps your understanding of the broader world. 🌈 🌟

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I think "ordenador" comes from the French "ordinateur" xd. Also the "Z" sound is the exact same as "THing" so I'll never understand why they find it complicated to pronounce when they do it everyday

You should try finding Portugese speakers and do the same thing as today. I spent 18 months in the Azores (Ac'ores) My 9th grade spanish didn't help much. But I had a great time there with wonderful friends that I made.

and in andalucia although unfortunately for some reason many Spaniards themselves make fun of the andalusian accent and say that we do not know how to speak, at least here you can say both zumo and sumo to buy a juice, we can understand perfectly well.

That Mexican girl is stunning and has a lot of fun! Hope to see her more on the next vids!

Still waiting for someone from Chile 🇨🇱 I want the confusion that's going to bring jahskdjdh

Elote is the Nahuatl word elotl specifically for corn on the cob while maíz is corn in general. But once it's roasted in a pan, it's called esquite from the Nahuatl word izquitl. And Mexico has many many words for corn because corn comes from Mexico and became a pre-Columbian staple food for literally the entire western hemisphere via trade. Corn would travel south from the Mexica and potatoes (papas or patatas) would travel north from the Inca. And tobacco and turkeys would travel south from the Lakota and Apache and corn and chocolate would travel north.

Oh , Christina 🇺🇲 is back , nice to see her again

Love your Videos

I'm from Honduras🇭🇳 the Spanish I speak is a little bit different, for example to say YOU is tu as in tu mamá but YOU as I say to YOU is VOS

Mexico is a huge rich country and the educated Mexicans speak like the Spaniard’s but without the Spanish accent and it’s beautiful… remember this there’s 32 states and every state is different and they have their accents and lingo…

hey Ladies, it is so good watching you :) greetings from Hungary

english got so much latin influence we can connect with romance languages

Ordenador is similar to the French word Ordinateur, so I picked up on that immediately as someone who is more familiar with French. But Duolingo is teaching me Computadora. Interesting! 🖥

Nice video! I’m from Spain and I can understand Spanish speaking person with no problem unless it is super slang. In Spain we understand all Spanish accents but it depends on the person’s background who you are talking to. Also, I know this cuz I’m a language nerd, in Spain we have many accents and two major Spanish varieties: northern and Southern. In the north, we differentiate the sound S and Z, in the south some areas do, some don’t in general) and in the Canary Islands they don’t have the sound z. Also, in the south and Canary Islands, their vocabulary is way more similar to the Latin American Spanish, for example in the Canary Islands they say jugo not zumo, or guaga not bus.

In Parisian French, computer is "ordinateur", so I'm guessing that the Castilian Spanish word comes from a similar root

We also call corn as Maiz here in the Philippines. You should also try Mais Conyelo its very tasty :D

I’m so glad they showed that just because we speak Spanish it doesn’t mean we use the same words

Buen video, interesante el contenido. 👍

OMG the Mexican girl reminded me of Emily from the UK!! 😂😱

Nice class ! 👍

This was fun. Are there any Dominicans over there? Would be really cool (and comical) to have a Dominican present our version of Spanish. LOL.

For those who don't know... _ordenador_ is from the Latin _ordo_ literally "command, arrange, file, class, row, tier"...it share the same root as _order._ So a _computer_ in Latin is not just something that counts but arranges things in order, files them, commands, and arranges in rows and columns...not too far from the concept of the military. Also _computadora_ is simply a variant form of _computer_ and neither are English words but, are derived from the Latin _computare_ literally _com-_ "together" + _putare_ "to reckon". It's important to know that modern English is a hybrid language with many Latin and Greek loan words, mixed with a bit of French, Hebrew, Hindu, etc. The actual English words are closer to Germanic and Norse languages.

Spanish is one of the most charming language in the world with other latin languages like italian romanian etc

1:54 You say ordenador because a "computer" is a machine that follows so called instructions, which are orders. Same word is used in French. Here in Sweden, a "computer" is a _dator,_ which kind of means "data-motor". And "computer science" is therefore _datalogi_ (emphasis on the last syllable).

Chris and callie, do a vídeo when you learning french words with ladies from Martinica, Canada and France. Let's go ladies.

As an American I'm laughing in confusion why the USA girls are acting like we don't have the Spanish "lisp" sound in our language - it is used all the time as "th" e.g. the, thought, thumb, that, etc. it is a very common sound in our language.

just to add a little bit to de chat... we say "elote" while still on the cob or the grain still soft, "maiz" when its all dried and off the cob, also we called mazorca while still on the cob in one piece.

Mazorca, o elote es cuando esta en la planta y conserva el nombre despues de la cosecha, mientras esta completo. Maiz es solamente el grano Y al ser desgranado, al resto se le llama olote ( no es error olote, con "o" )

También en España decimos Camarones, pero son un poco más grandes que las gambas.

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CORN in Mexico we say ELOTE, because the indigenous natives called it that way, but MAIZ is also used as in the other Spanish-speaking countries

Oh andrea's team kill me.... , they are so funny, upload more about them

Prácticamente todos los hispanohablantes sabemos que es maiz pero en cada pais se lo dice de manera diferente para referirse de manera diferente al maiz

1:55 En México, Computadora. Del inglés: to compute. En español: Computar Mas el sufijo "dora" En Latinoamérica decimos computadora porque es la traduccion del ingles "Computer" En España, Ordenador Del francés: ordinateur

i would call it elote preparado aka Prepared Corn, maíz i would use to describe corn products like corn meal, but the food itself, elote

In Spanish from Spain, "camarón" is a kind of "gamba" (shrimp) and "zumo" (juice) is only used when the natural "jugo" (juice) is obtained by squeezing or liquefying ... so they also exist in Spain . Remember: Spaniards, we are the originals Spanish speakers ... And though it seems that there are many differences between the different accents of Spanish, in the end, in practice all Spanish speakers understand each other ...

I love these squads.

In Mexico: Maiz: raw corn / Elote: cooked corn (can be the one with mayo, or with butter, etc.) / Esquite: is almost the same thing than Elote but crumblend and served with broth in a styrofoam glass

Camarones al mojo de ajo and al ajillo are different 😭 And also, some people in Mexico say “ratón” instead of mouse… I sometimes feel you can get more accurate Mexicans guests hehe

I actually use ratón for mouse in Spanish as a Mexican 🤣it was really fun watching this

Yay Callie!

There's only one Spanish speaking country in Africa continent which is Equatorial Guinea.. true fact