If you are Dominican, or learned your Spanish in the DR, what do you do when you go to another Spanish speaking country? If you learned your Spanish elsewhere or are a native of another Spanish speaking country, what do you do? To what extent do you modify grammar and vocabulary (pronunciation even) in order to fit in?
I have always tended to follow the chamaleonic model and try to adapt, Zelig-like, to the local Spanish in most places. My husband, OTOH, stuck to Dominican Spanish when he lived in Central America, and never adopted the local grammatical quirks like 'vos' (as mentioned by MaineGirl in a separate thread). He did assimilate some regional slang though.
Chiri
I have always tended to follow the chamaleonic model and try to adapt, Zelig-like, to the local Spanish in most places. My husband, OTOH, stuck to Dominican Spanish when he lived in Central America, and never adopted the local grammatical quirks like 'vos' (as mentioned by MaineGirl in a separate thread). He did assimilate some regional slang though.
Chiri