They love to speak in voz, which is another way to say you. Typically in Spanish people say tú, but in Argentina, especially Buenos Aires, it's vos. So if you ever hear vos, they're saying you. And just recognize that, recognize their accent. They love to speak with, they call their Spanish castellano, and they love to speak with the sh sound for their y's and their double l's. So como se llama, and things like that, la sherba. So just be prepared.
I'm from Argentina. I had to come to the United States and learn Eurasian language in the worst possible way. I went to school. I went to movies a lot. I listened to radio. Spanish is very complex but at the same time easy because if you memorize the verbs and expressions and if you get used to the rhythm it's like music. So it's not like English. In Spanish it's you write and you read and if you do those two things and you memorize the verbs you'll be ahead of it.
I recommend just being mindful of where the sound is being made in your mouth. So, like, while you're speaking, just pay attention to your mouth. Because in English, we speak, like, more in the back of our throats. There's a couple of sounds in English that don't exist in Spanish. Like, uh, for example. They call a schwa, it's an uh. It makes an uh sound. In Spanish, they don't have that. They go, a, e, i, o, u. And it's only those five vowel sounds. And they're all made further forward. As well as all of the consonants that are really common. P, T, S, K. They're all consonants that happen when you're doing some sort of thing with your tongue and your teeth. Tip of the tongue on the back of the teeth. Yeah, say that five times fast. And those are the. So you speak more forward than you normally would.
Their Spanish is called Castellano. Instead of saying ya, you'd say sho and po sho. They speak in a form called vos, so you've probably heard of tu and vosotros and nosotros. This, however, it's kind of its own thing. So there's a few different words that you'll use that you might not have heard before. For example, a bus is called a colectivo. Also, to say wow, you'd say fa. To say very, so like very awesome or very cold, you say re, so re frio, re genial, whatever. To say that something's like cool or like to call someone a stud, you'd say capo or que copado. And a taxi is called a remis. Avocados are popped up. Dude is che. And to say goodbye, you'd say ciao.
They've got a lot of sha and they roll that they don't roll their Rs the same they go Ha and like Petro instead of Pedro and they do a bunch of kind of weird dialect things So one of the best tips that I got from my first companion my trainer who was happened to be from Ecuador He said if you really want to learn Spanish, and if you want to be good at it Stop having English be your crutch take the time to learn Spanish and And Read read as much as you can in Spanish way We get good at English is we read and we listen and we talk the same goes for Spanish We've got to read listen and talk and then make a ton of mistakes. Don't be afraid to screw up and say something It's okay your companion if they're good will help you and help translate any, you know, weird issues So practice practice practice
The Spanish they speak down there is actually pretty different from the Spanish that they speak in Spain or Mexico, and they even have a different name for it. They call it Castellano instead of Español, and there's a lot of different vocabulary words, but one of the main differences you'll notice is the pronunciation of certain letters. So for example, if you wanted to say my name is Ethan, in Mexican Spanish you'd say yo me llamo Ethan, but in Argentina, in Cordoba, you'd say yo me llamo Ethan. So it just kind of has a little bit more of a funky sound, it takes a little bit to get used to it.
Well, one of the things that I was really confused was the word coger, which for me, because I'm Peruvian, I speak Spanish, for me it means to take, but for them it doesn't mean to take. For them it means something that it has to be like, I don't know how to say, it's like sexually entitled, I don't know, but yeah, don't say that word coger in front of them, they're gonna laugh, yeah.
If you've taken Spanish before in high school or college, most likely you learned Spanish from Spain or Mexico. I'm sorry to say that is not the same Spanish as what you're going to learn in Argentina. Fundamentally it's the same, but the accent is completely different. And if you haven't already heard, like the Y is pronounced with a SH or the double L, when normally it's just a YA. So that takes some getting used to. It definitely sounds weird at first. I had taken three years of Spanish in high school. When I got there, I like didn't understand anything. But embrace it, I guess is the worst thing I could say.
Learning Spanish is not easy. It takes a lot of time, and you're gonna make a ton of mistakes, and that's okay. That's how you learn. So I would say keep practicing, speak it as much as you can, whenever you can, and then when you do learn it, don't stop trying to expand your knowledge. Don't get discouraged. Always practice, and then continue to use it after you learn it.