Rocket Spanish Community

Hello. I live in Arizona and have wanted to learn Spanish for 40 years. There are lots of people to speak and practice with. My question is, being that there are many idioms in Spanish, how will a native speaker from Mexico respond when I start speaking in an idiom that is peculiar to Chile (as is taught in this course)? Is it similar to when an American and a Brit have a conversation? Different words, but we still understand each other.

Frankly, though Mauricio is from Chile, I think the Spanish taught in Rocket Spanish is mostly pretty standard and can be understood almost anywhere. Yes, there are a few expressions that are specific to a particular region, but I think you're right in likening this to the difference between American and British English (or, perhaps less drastically, English from different regions of the U.S.). By and large, we understand each other.

I wouldn't worry about that, ¡Suelta la lengua!

If someone isn't familiar with a particular idiom, they'll ask you what it means. The real challenge will then be explaining it! Besides, once you tell them what it means, they may tell you the corresponding idiom from their country, which means you're learning even more Spanish! In fact, that just happened to me this morning.