Do you speak Colombian? WTF

Well, actually, ask Spanish speking people from Sout America and they will confirm that every South American country, although they seem to share one language, has its peculiarities and its idiosyncrasies.

Just recently, I met a translator who translated a German theater piece into Mexican Spanish. When a theater group from Argentinia showed interest in bringing this piece to the stage in Argentinia, the director got together with the Mexican translator to adapt the Mexican idiom into an Argentinian idiom. Interestingly, the problems and differences in this piece's language were connected to exactly the same linguistic field as in this film: the drug industry.

Had the director not done the adaptation, the piece wouldn't have worked for the Argentinian theater public, mostly due to colloquialisms that just don't exist in the other language.

This was new for me, as well.


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Vala Morghulis

maybe he was refering to castilian... there's a small difference between that and spanish.

I personally wouldn't, but it dpes sound like the type of dumb generalism a paisa gangaster would use.

No that's obviously a Hollywood move. Second, very few people would've spoken English, here it seems everyone does. Not even broken English or to be able to understand it. At that time there was not even Internet.
They wouldn't ask if someone speaks spanish either, it wasn't common to be in that situation, it's not like you are in Miami there.
There are a lot of white people especially in Medellin, the movie made it look as if everyone was Mexican, who are 99% indians. So a white guy wouldnt stand out there until he starts speaking, then you would ask if you are a gringo, which just means pretty much a foreigner from anywhere in the world and is not an insult for Colombians.
It's just a movie.

It's ColOmbia, not 'Columbia'.

And no one in Colombia would say they speak 'ColOmbian'. If they do, it's also
probably from "arrogance and patriotism".

They would say they speak 'Español'.

But Australians always admit that we speak our own version of English, sometimes referred to as Aussie lingo or Strayan, however it depends what part of the country you're from, we also identify that New Zealanders speak Kiwi English which has many different peculiarities to how we pronounce things. Argentinian Spanish (along with its sister Uruguayan) is the most far removed from other versions of Spanish, its true that other Spanish speaking countries like Colombia and Mexico have many words, terms and pronunciations that are native to their countries, they generally are not part of their official Spanish and would not be used by the upper class be wealthy, unlike Argentina where the Spanish spoken there with its usage of Vo instead of Tu and many other French and Italian words are actually part of the official language and used by everyone from the Pope, to the President, to the farmers in the field and even Michael Bubles wife