Alternancia de Código - Code Switching

Alternancia de Código - Code Switching

Author: Spanish and Go July 28, 2020 Duration: 28:04

When you hear people speaking Spanish, do you often hear them slip in any English words or words that sound just like something you’d say in English? Well, it’s probably code-switching you are hearing, which is the topic of the week!

In this episode, Jim and May compare code-switching to “Spanglish” in order to teach us the difference. They in fact are very similar, but not quite the same. 

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