Are larousse spanish dictionaries good for learning castilian (spain's) spanish?

i'm going to spain in a few weeks and i need a good dictionary that is more based on castilian spanish rather than latin american spanish. i was wondering if the larousse mini dictionary is geared more towards castilian or latin american.|||A good dictionary, and I think Larousse is a very good dictionary, has definitions for the most used words in the standard language (the standard language in Spain and Latin America is almost the same). Also, a good dictionary presents words indicating the different meanings of a word, and the best ones also indicate where those meanings are more prevalent (if a word has two different meanings, one in LatAm and one in Spain, the dictionary would show both meanings).


Slang words are not usually present in dictionaries.|||The Spanish spoken in Latin America is Castilian. There's no such thing as Castilian Spanish. Castilian or Castellano and what we can "espa帽ol" is the same language, they're two words that refer to the same thing. There are other totally different languages spoken in Spain, like Catalan, Galician, Basque, etc.





Anyway, Latin American and European Spanish, uses the same grammar and spelling. It's just the accent and word usages that you'll find different. Actually, any good dictionary should work. That being said, you will notice that they use the "vosotros," instead of the "usted," that Latin Americans use. Other minor differences like that will be encountered by you. Otherwise, I would just by a good resource book that deals specifically with Spain, like a travel guidebook. That should help you with gaining familiarity with the culture and providing you with things to do and things to say as well.|||yes i know what Castilian is, there's no other Spanish it's the same in Latin America and Spain lol if you find the word in spanish that's my last name xD ok you didn't need to know that :)


All spanish dictionaries are supposed to contain EVERY word in Spanish that is not slang so assuming that you have the dictionary you should be okay with all the words. mini dictionaries are always a problem though


as a native speaker i found myself using a mini english dictionary when i didn't speak english and now that i am fluent i am free to say that "i know more words than the ones on the mini dictionary i used"


if you want something just to hep you out then they should do but if you want to learn spanish i would use other methods.|||any spanish dictionary will do


some words my differ but honesly spaniards understand all other latin americans who speak spanish and vice cersa


but if u want the best spanish dictionary,get the Real Academia de la Lengua Espa帽ola dictionary (kinda like the Oxford English Dcitionary, but in Spanish)