Paseo nocturno por Granada y vuelta a Londres
A2 Spanish listening practice · Spanish from Spain · Curated for beginners
Why does Spain say “fijaos” while Latin America says “fíjense”?
Spain keeps a second-person plural pronoun, vosotros, that Latin America has dropped almost everywhere. The verb forms split too: when a Spaniard wants to tell a group to “look, all of you,” they say fijaos (the vosotros imperative of the reflexive verb fijarse). Latin Americans use fíjense (the ustedes form) for the same idea. The -aos ending is a clear Castilian marker; you almost never hear it in Mexico, Argentina, or Colombia. Other examples: callaos (“be quiet, all of you”), sentaos (“sit down, all of you”).
In this clip, a Spaniard from Granada tells viewers “aquí se está muy bien, fijaos” (“it’s really nice here, look”).
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Spanish listening practice listening practice?
General Spanish frequency
Spoken Spanish frequency
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
- ▸In Spanish TV news and morning shows (TVE, Antena 3)
- ▸In Spanish sitcoms set in Spain (La Casa de Papel, Aída, Cuéntame)
- ▸In Spanish parent-and-child conversations across Spain
- ▸In Spanish travel YouTube and tour-guide content
- ▸In Spanish-language schools and language-school textbooks