AP® Spanish Language and Culture review sheet from Aim for Five (aimforfive.com/spanish/units/2)
Unit 2
Not weighted by unitLanguage and Culture
This unit is about how language and culture shape each other. You'll look at celebrations and traditions, where Spanish came from and how it keeps changing, and the many ways Spanish is spoken around the world, including in the United States.
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Big ideas
- Celebrations pass culture from one generation to the next
- Spanish grew out of Latin and borrowed words from Arabic, Indigenous languages and English
- There's no single correct accent: Spanish varies from place to place
- Language is a big part of personal and group identity
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Holidays and rites of passage across the Spanish-speaking world, such as Día de Muertos in Mexico, the Reyes Magos and las Fallas in Spain, quinceañeras and the Carnaval de Oruro in Bolivia. Many of them mix Indigenous and Catholic traditions.
Key terms
- el Día de Muertos
- la ofrenda
- los Reyes Magos
- la quinceañera
- el carnaval
- las Fallas
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How Spanish grew out of the Latin spoken in the Iberian Peninsula, took in thousands of words from Arabic and from Indigenous languages like Náhuatl, and keeps changing. You'll also learn what the Real Academia Española (RAE) does and why pronunciation varies, as with seseo (saying z and the soft c like s, as most Latin Americans and many people in southern Spain do).
Key terms
- el latín
- el castellano
- el préstamo lingüístico
- el náhuatl
- la Real Academia Española (RAE)
- el seseo
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Spanish has more than 600 million speakers and is an official language in about 20 countries, including Equatorial Guinea in Africa. The United States has one of the largest Spanish-speaking populations in the world, and many bilingual people mix the two languages (Spanglish).
Key terms
- el hispanohablante
- el bilingüismo
- el espanglish
- el acento
- las variedades del español
- el voseo
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