ARGENTINIAN Spanish & What Makes it So DIFFERENT

Special thanks to Gianluca Bisio for his Rioplatense audio samples and suggestions, and to Luis Solana Ureña for his Standard Spanish audio samples.

Video editing: Luis Solana Ureña (Acribus Studio)

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[julestof]

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 😂

[emilianofraga]

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.

[TheaDVK]

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

[agustinvisini]

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

[ercuesy]

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".

[agustinpapa]

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

[juana]

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.

[alejotassile]

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

[issoorestodomundomostra]

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!

[ema-idiomas-musica]

I can't believe you've made a video about the Argentinian accent, sir. I've been watching your videos for years. I can't explain how much I admire you and respect your work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world! Regards from Argentina 🙆🏽‍♂️❤️

[alidapc]

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.

[TheForeignersNetwork]

I studied abroad in Buenos Aires and I had a very hard time adjusting to the dialect at first. But now when I speak Spanish, I find it impossible to speak in any other way. This video feels like home to me, and in my opinion, Rioplatense Spanish is the most beautiful variety of Spanish

[Lucas-yout]

I'm a mexican-american native speaker of spanish. We had this argentinian exchange student at our school and it was really hard to follow him sometimes. Whenever he was in a hurry, or drunk, he used a lot of argentinian slang words which I couldn't understand. It was a very interesting experience.
The voseo also caught me off guard when he first used it.
The dialect is very beautiful in my opinion.

[julianbeltran]

I've been subscribed for the last 7 years, and finally you will upload the video I've always waited for. Yay.

[yuyeeto]

I once met an italian girl who was studying spanish in Chile and came to Uruguay as a tourist. Her spanish sounded like a porteño trying to imitate a chilean, due to her speaking chilean spanish with an italian accent and intonation. It was hilarious and she loved when people mentioned it 😂

[SimSimon]

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.

[elsoundgarden]

As an Uruguayan I must say I'm impressed with the detailed knowledge you're showing in this video.Cheers.

[lisetita]

I'm Argentinian and this video is quite accurate to the way we speak and express ourselves. Congratulations.

[alex-krycek]

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

[yoargentina.]

Es la primera vez que veo una descripciòn tan certera, sin exageraciones y bien documentado, felicitaciones, muy buen trabajo