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idioma and lengua both mean language but idioma is a noun and lengua is an adj. right??
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Both are nouns, and so is lenguaje, which also means language. Two of these words are masculine.
the Spanish language
= el idioma español
= el lenguaje español
= la lengua española
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idioma and lengua both mean language but idioma is a noun and lengua is an adj. right??
I'm not totally sure but I believe idioma means language, but lengua means tongue
(as in the body part, as well as "the tongue of a people/the language of a people"
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Yes, lengua also means tongue.
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idioma and lengua both mean language but idioma is a noun and lengua is an adj. right??
In my opinion about it.

Language is Lenguaje.

Lengua meaning tongue.


They together are very different.
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I'm not totally sure but I believe idioma means language, but lengua means tongue
(as in the body part, as well as "the tongue of a people/the language of a people"
Just like in English, your mother tongue.
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hmm I see because we learned "language lab" as el laboratorio de las lenguas and "foreign languages" as las lenguas extranjeras. I didn't know if you could use idioma to replace lenguas.
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idiomas = lenguas

Yes, they're interchangeable. Just remember that one is feminine and the other is masculine, so the respective articles and adjectives need to be switched.
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oh ok thanks
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