A person from Spain is a Spaniard.
If you are American and you think that "Spanish" refers to someone from South America, you are IGNORANT.
People from Central America are Central Americans (or whichever nationality - and, many of them don't speak Spanish, you know). People from South America are South Americans - and many of THEM don't speak Spanish, also. People from Mexico and Guatemala are NORTH Americans, or Mexicans and Guatemalans. And people from any country in the Americas who speak Spanish or have hispanic culture are LATIN AMERICANS (shortened to Latins/latinos/latinas).
Hispanic means that the language and or culture is of Spanish origin.
And if you refer to any of that as "Spanish" then you are insulting someone, if not 400 million people.
The word Spaniard refers only to people from Spain (Europe). Many Americans wrongly think Spain is in Latin-America because they have no education and a complete lack of interest in the rest of the world.
They're erm Spanish. What about the Spanish from Spain or Spanish Spanish.
The people are Spanish and their language is also Spanish. You might therefore be better referring to them as Spanish people or Spaniards.
call them Spanish.
Why would anybody listen to an American on such matters when so few of them understand the language that they themselves call English ?
They are Spaniards...............my husband is a spaniard.............but I often say when asked, my husband is spanish.................its not really an insult, unless it is actual said in an insulting fashion.
Expats!
In Poland Spanish refers to people from Spain. In America when you say Spanish, people automatically think South American. If I want to say Spanish as in from Spain, and not South/Central American, what do I say?
