Anyone here fluent in Spanish?

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Tengo una pregunta.

Can "todo el mundo" be used to refer to everyone in a small, but well-understood, reference group (as with the English terms "everyone" and "everybody")? Or does the "el mundo" have real teeth?

as a brown, I can tell you that "todo el mundo" is the most widely-used way to say "everyone" or "everybody"

[Sensei]

Je ne parle pas espanol! Mais je deteste français aussi!

Espagnol

[Sensei]

You would think I am but I am actually terrible with my Spanish.

you live in Idaho and you're half white. You've an excuse.

I'm nearly fully Hispanic, and I live in North Cuba. My spoken Spanish is hardly sufficient to have a conversation with my own grandmother. I don't have an excuse.