🇨🇺 What Language Do They Speak in Cuba?
The short answer
Cuba speaks Spanish — Caribbean Spanish, famous for dropping final consonants and swallowing the letter s: 'más o menos' becomes 'má o meno'. It's fast, musical and one of the trickier accents for learners, but standard Spanish serves you perfectly everywhere on the island.
Worth knowing
- ●Cuban Spanish shares its sound system with Puerto Rican and Dominican Spanish — the Caribbean dialect family
- ●'¿Qué bolá?' is the classic Cuban 'what's up?'
- ●Decades of limited migration kept Cuban slang wonderfully distinct — asere (mate) is pure Cuba
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