Yes, they're the remnants of the spoils of Spanish colonial conquest.
I got to use my rusty Spanish whilst I was there. I brushed up a bit with Duolingo a couple of weeks before I left, which paid off nicely - I could at least get a few sentences into a conversation before it broke down!
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Date: 2015-11-27 09:39 am (UTC)I got to use my rusty Spanish whilst I was there. I brushed up a bit with Duolingo a couple of weeks before I left, which paid off nicely - I could at least get a few sentences into a conversation before it broke down!