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A behind-the-scenes look at an education publisher written by editors from the English Language Arts, Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies departments.
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By: Flor, on 8/15/2011
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Do We Really Speak the Same Language?

I was talking to my friend Eva the other day, and I realized that sometimes it feels like we speak completely different languages although we both speak Spanish. E is from Barcelona and I am from Argentina. The interactions with my friend made me think of the differences between the Spanish spoken in Argentina and in Spain, and how distressing it could be for Spanish students visiting Argentina, for example if they learned Castilian Spanish, or the other way around. Below are a few distinctions that come to mind.
Grammar: Tú or Vos?
If you are an English native speaker, and you are planning to travel to Argentina, and to make use of your almost perfect Spanish, you will need to learn how to use the second informal pronoun vos instead of tú. Vos is more or less the equivalent to thee in English. Conjugating vos is actually simpler than tú since there are no irregular verbs to deal with other than ser, which changes to sos instead of eres. For instance:
Volver: tú vuelves –> vos volvés
Dormir: tú duermes –> vos dormís
Ser: tú eres –> vos sos
In Argentina, people utilize vos all across the country. It is perhaps the difference most noticeable to foreigners hearing it for the first time. Argentineans will not be surprised by your use of tú. If you really want to fit in though, you should practice using 0 Comments on as of 1/1/1900
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