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In the South, more that 90% of Spanish speakers are immigrants from Mexico. And Mexican Spanish is quite different from Spanish Spanish, so while yes it is an ignorant thing to say, I consider it not entirely incorrect, depending on dialect spoken

I work with lots of Mexican immigrants, and i can understand them when they talk in Spanish. I cannot understand other peoples who speak Spanish

Thats litteraly the opposite of me, I understand only spanish spanish. What other peoples speak is like almost a different language.

The difference between Mexican Spanish and Peninsular (as in from Spain) Spanish is kinda like that between Scottish English and Southern English. Kinda. You wouldn't call the language spoken in, say, Louisiana, Louisianan, because that'd just be wrong. And you wouldn't call Scottish English Scottish, because that'd be another language, Scottish Gaelic. In much the same way, saying you speak "Mexican" would be more accurate if you were referring to the language of the Aztecs, who called themselves the Mexica people.

But Spanish Spanish is harder for English speakers to pronounce than Latin American varieties xdd

I guess so. It's all a pretty strange language. It's like comparing Scottish English with southern English. I can't understand thick Scottish accents at all. But they also may not be able to understand my Southern draw

I do however like the sound of both "accents" but peninsular Spanish just sounds way smoother than Mexican, and ofcourse, because I have travelled through Spain many times and grew comfortable with it, perhaps.

mexico, the country with more spanish native speakers than spain