Survey says: Los Angeles area Spanish speakers proclaim they converse in the Golden State’s coolest version of the language.“Everyone associates the city’s Spanish with coolness,” graduate student Alejandra Rivas ‘24 said.  Rivas is among the Cal State Long Beach students contributing to “Perceptual Dialectology in California: Latinx Perspectives,” an ongoing study revealing what Spanish speakers living in the Golden State think about regional varieties of the language and its distinctive blend with English – Spanglish.