ARGENTINIAN Spanish & What Makes it So DIFFERENT

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As an Italian, I started studying Spanish with a teacher from Madrid. Some years later I pursued my studies with a teacher from Argentina. At first Rioplatense Spanish sounded so familiar to my Italian ears that it was as if I was listening a native Italian speaking Spanish 😂

Rioplatense accent is perfect, it sounds splotless and unyelding, immaculate and vivacious. And people from Argentina are so nice and well-mannered, I really hope to have the chance to visit Argentina again. Saludos desde Palermo, Argentina

I first started learning Spanish on my own, I was looking for an online chat to practice and stumbled upon some group chat of La Plata, Argentina. So I was learning Rioplatense Spanish, but I didn't know that. Later I took a Spanish course at the university and I was baffled why the teacher couldn't understand me, how come she didn't know some of the words I was using and why did she pronounce llegar like "yegar" and not "shegar". :))) So I started speaking castellano in class, but the rioplatense has always been closest to my heart.

I'm German and I learned Spanish for a few months in a language school in Buenos Aires, Argentina some 15 years ago. I understand Rioplatense MUCH better than "mainland castellano", as it's being spoken in Spain. Also, I find the grammar easier to learn due to the "voseo": Here, second person singular is always the infinitive form with the -r replaced by an -s in the end of the word with the last syllable always stressed. Plus, in Rioplatense, you commonly use only one form of past tense: The pretérito indefinido. In my experience, there is no need to use the pretérito perfecto at all. The real crazy thing about Spanish are the regional dialects and most importantly: Words, which can have a completely different meaning, depending on your region. One prime example is the word "cojer", which means "to fetch" in regular Spanish, however, in Argentina it means "to f*ck". There are endless examples like that in the Spanish language.

Porteños can sometimes use expressions that take a while to understand to other Spanish speaking people. I'm from Mexico and I'll never forget an expression used by one of my Argentine colleagues when referring to the strong smell of gasoline coming out of an engine. He said "larga una baranda que voltea" meaning "it smells so bad it makes your head turn".

I love everything about Argentina, it's such a beautiful country and the people there are so nice and humble. Greetings from Argentina

Muy buen video! Me gustaría aclarar que si bien la palabra "boludo/a" puede tener varios significados y el expresado en el video es válido, el origen que le dio mas popularidad en su uso es bastante distinto. Tanto "boludo" como "pelotudo" tienen sus raíces en las guerras por la independencia de España. En la formación de combate, los gauchos se organizaban en tres filas. La primera estaba compuesta por los "pelotudos", quienes llevaban pelotas de piedra atadas con un lazo. La segunda fila la conformaban los "lanceros", armados con facones y lanzas, y la tercera fila estaba integrada por los "boludos", que utilizaban boleadoras o bolas. Estos gauchos se encontraban en desventaja, ya que los españoles tenían armas de fuego, artillería y corazas. En 1890, un diputado de la Nación utilizó el término "pelotudo" de manera despectiva para referirse a aquellos que se exponían al frente de batalla sin sentido. Con el tiempo, esta forma de utilizar el término se popularizó y "boludo" se convirtió en un sinónimo. Saludos

As a student of Spanish having studied in both Mexico and Peru I initially found Argentinian Spanish to be difficult to understand but lately, I have been exposed much more to Argentinian Spanish & I've gotten more used to it & am finding it isn't as difficult to understand as it once was. Of course, it depends on who's talking, how fast & the subject.

I'm brazilian, and due to my admiration for Argentina I decided to take "porteño" as my variant of Spanish. I speak it quite well, and it sounds so different that I can hide my non native speaker accent behind it: when I talk to Spanish native speakers they commonly think I come from Argentina or Uruguay. Except for people from these countries ... they identify me immediately as a non Spanish native speaker ... and sometimes they even have no doubt I'm brazilian!

Soy uruguayo, y por lejos es el video que mejor explica el español rioplatense. ¡Felicitaciones! Las personas que hablan español nativamente por lo general entienden mi acento, pero sí es verdad que muchas veces me piden que hable más lento; también muchas de las palabras o expresiones que utilizamos en el Río de la Plata son difíciles de entender, pero lejos de ser un problema para comunicarnos.

Que grande el guacho este! La rompe con lo que sabe la tiene atada. Abrazo chabon!

I'm an American who studied in Mexico during high school. However, when I first traveled to Argentina, it only took me a short time to become accustomed to the Argentine way.

I'm from Argentina and I really appreciate the effort. This is the only video I've ever seen that uses our slang in a way that doesn't sound weird

As an argentinian from buenos aires I haven't had trouble talking to people from other latin countries (Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Méjico if it counts) but i did notice and have been told that our way to speak is a bit faster and less articulated. You mentioning in the video replacing the S for an H sound before a consonant is a very good example of this.

To me as a Puerto Rican, I was exposed to Rioplatense Spanish through old television programs from Argentina, which by now are rather scarce in local television (of course, now there are live feeds from Argentinean media everywhere). To us, if was like a dialect of Italian, with a lot of roller coaster intonations, the peculiar verb conjugations that require some mental gymnastics to get used to, and the occasional slang, verres and lunfardo words thrown in for spice. With time, the strong yeismo from Buenos Aires and Montevideo have softened quite a bit, along with the dramatic neo-Italian swag… it is a bit less peculiar, and has become easier to understand to us who live far from that area.

I'm Indian, and I've been learning and speaking Spanish for about 10 years now. When this video popped up, I was so happy because the past 2 years I've been spending a month each year with a group of Argentinians here in Mumbai, and I looooooove the accent. They make fun of my using vosotros and its conjugations, but I've learned to sprinkle vos and ustedes here and there (as well as using gender neutral terms like amigues for example). I found it a little difficult in the beginning to understand, but with the amount of exposure I am pretty comfortable with it now. They've returned to their land at the moment, and I miss hearing all the 'boludo' and 'dale' and 're' before everything. I want to go to Buenos Aires so badly but it's so faaaaar 😭

Es super raro ver a alguien hablar del lenguaje de mi pais de una forma tan filtrada y objetiva, me encanta <3

One thing i love about Rioplatense is the phrase "Me voy a ir yendo" saying in 3 different ways the same thing to refer someone leaving somewhere. "Me voy" - "I'm leaving", by it's own, but here means, "i'm going" or instanciating that you are start to leave "a ir" - "go", but here working as a connector for the next phrase "yendo", - "going", "leaving"

argentinian here, this is the most accurate video about argentinian spanish languaje i've ever seen. good job chabón!