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Learn Guatemalan Spanish in Guatemala City

Chapín Spanish uses vos with friends and usted with almost everyone else. Something great is chilero, a kid is a patojo, and money is pisto.

In Solvelingua you move to Guatemala City (Ciudad de Guatemala), find a home in Centro Histórico, and learn Guatemalan Spanish the way people there speak it: by talking with the baker, your landlord, your boss and your friends, by voice or by typing. Everyone remembers you, and gentle feedback after each conversation shows what to say next time.

What you'll hear in Guatemala City

Answering the phone

¿Aló?

Polite and friendly “you”

usted with strangers, vos with friends

Courtesies

con permiso, con mucho gusto, a la orden and que le vaya bien

Money

Guatemalan quetzales

Local words and slang

va pues
¿qué onda, vos?
fijate
cabal
simón
chilero
patojo
pisto
chamba
chucho
shuco
a la gran
¡qué clavo!

Where you'll live

Centro Histórico: Zona 1, the old centre: the Parque Central, the Cathedral and the Palacio Nacional, the Mercado Central under the square, the Sexta Avenida for walking and the Parque Concordia.

You can play in English and Portuguese: menus, feedback, lessons and translations come in the language you pick.

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