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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What state are you from? In California, we learned Mexican Spanish. My teachers very briefly mentioned vos/vosotros, but we never spent any time on those conjugations and were never tested on them.

Although... now that you mention it... maybe the textbook was for Iberian Spanish... I definitely remember the teacher going over vocabulary, getting to the word "coger", and then 90% of the class busting up laughing, while the other 10% was confused! 😂

Maybe we did have Iberian Spanish textbooks, but since most people in my town were Mexican, we learned Mexican Spanish from the teacher using an Iberian Spanish textbook?...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'll be honest, I never hear anyone say vos in Spain, except an Argentinian who said it all the time and it sounded really odd

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    They think that saying vosotros instead of ustedes is somehow a signal for us saying vos instead of usted. Fuck no we say tu-vosotros, the colloquial form of usted ustedes.

    Argentinians use vos if I recall correctly the even more formal form of usted.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I grew up in California and had the opposite experience. I had friends who grew up speaking Mexican-Spanish at home, and would take the Spanish classes to get an easy A.

    The teachers never understood what the Mexican-Spanish students were saying, and kept telling the native speakers that they were doing it wrong.

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