It takes about two minutes after arriving in Argentina to notice that Argentine Spanish is distinct from Iberian Spanish and the U.S. ‘food truck Spanish’ of those who only took remedial Spanish in school. At first, it sounds like bastardized Italian and it differs considerably from the Spanish spoken in other countries of Latin America, […]
Argentine Spanish: The Use of ‘Vos’
Many times people say, “You’re crazy if you decide to take Spanish lessons in Buenos Aires! Porteños, i.e., people born in this city, speak a bizarre distorted type of Spanish impossible to understand for the rest of the people on the planet.” It’s true that the variety of Spanish spoken in the Río de la […]
