MPR's Ambar Espinoza reports that for Spanish speakers, there are differences in accents, dialects and vocabulary, which can cause communication problems and confusion.

According to the 2000 Census, Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States after English. Listening to a group of native Spanish speakers, you might think their fast-paced conversation means easy communication with one another. But what people might not know is that within the Spanish-speaking population, there's a very clear divide, a linguistic "us" and "them."