A kind thank you for everyone helping.
I truly appreciate all of the help that I am receiving to improve my Spanish. I do wonder, however, if some corrections might differ from others. In other words, might a person from Latin America make different corrections than a Spaniard? (i.e. hacer, tomar, and etc.) Thank you very much and I will continue helping others with English in return for the favors. Italki is the greatest community on the Internet!

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Hello Esteban, yes, some words or expressions are different. I'm Spanish and since last year I'm living in Chile and some words have different meaning, but the base is the same.

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I've noticed this after a while, too.  One time my Notebook was commented by a Spaniard and by a Latin American, and they make different corrections/suggestions on the same item.
I'm kinda thinking that they should alter the options on everything so that you can select "Spanish - Spain" or "Spanish - Latin America."  Same with English.

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Hi Esteban. You're right. Some of the words in Spain differ from the ones in South America. As it happens with English (lorry/truck- autum/fall....) 
In my opinion, you should know which variation you want to learn. You can learn both (Spain and South American), but then learn to distinguish when to use which word depending on the person you're speaking to.

in the case of English, I tend to speak the British one. 
:-)

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