When you learn about language it is generally a good plan to understand the background of this language. It can provide exciting facts that can make studying process much more interesting. Your experience of learning Spanish words and phrases will be more exciting after you understand where they are applied and why there are variations in use in various areas of the world.

Spanish language was born in South America with the earliest Europeans at the end of the 15th century. At that point the spanish language was already strongly estabilished in the Iberian peninsula. In America however, Spanish had yet to be put in place.

In the course of this period, the south of the American region was a web of 100s of different languages. In addition, the ethnics that the Europeans experienced were radically separate from the Spanish one. On that basis talking was really hard in the very first phases, and it was done by using signs and eventually through locals who served as interpreters.

The Church had significant task in the spreading of the spanish language across South America. Missionaries organized academic institutions where they educated and transfered into Catholicism most small children and young adults. Obviously, this was all done using Spanish, and consequently it started to penetrate slowly and gradually in the daily lives of many native groups.

Nevertheless, there was a constant circulation of ethnical and linguistic impact between the Spanish explorers and the colonized. This occurred since the European exlporers always were a very small community in the South American continent. Thus, there was a endless interaction among different languages and a ongoing merging amongst the numerous populations. This helped the increase of areas belonging to the pre-Columbian cultures into what would eventually come to be American Spanish.

Currently, the Spanish of South and Central America is an exilerating local adaptation of the language of Spanish peninsula with a small number of Spanish words and phrases orginating from the native dialects of the area. You'll find also some slight discrepancies in the use of sentence structure.