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Learn Salvadoran Spanish in San Salvador

Salvadoran Spanish uses vos with friends and usted with elders and strangers. Something great is chivo, a friend is a chero, and kids are cipotes.

In Solvelingua you move to San Salvador, find a home in Centro Histórico, and learn Salvadoran 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 San Salvador

Answering the phone

¿Aló?

Polite and friendly “you”

usted with strangers, vos with friends

Courtesies

con permiso, con mucho gusto, a la orden, que le vaya bien and que Dios me lo bendiga

Money

US dollars

Local words and slang

vaya pues
¿qué onda, vos?
fijate
cabal
simón
chivo
cipote
chero
pisto
chamba
chunche
¡puchica!
hablar paja

Where you'll live

Centro Histórico: The old centre, rebuilt and repainted: the Plaza Libertad, the Cathedral and the Palacio Nacional, the Teatro Nacional, the new Biblioteca Nacional and the markets of the Calle Delgado.

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

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