how to speak with an argentinan accent?

Question

i'm currently learing spanish and i've notice how different argentinans speak differetly than mexicans or other spanish speakers. my question is how and where can i gain this accent without making a trip to argentina

Answer 1

There are two noticeable features of Argentinian accents: the pronunciation of the sound represented by "ll" or "y" and the intonation.

Argentinians have a very noticeable "zh" pronunciation of the "ll" sound, different from the pronunciations of other Latin Americans. Hopefully you'll be able to listen to some materials pronounced in Argentinian Spanish; you'll pick up on this right away. This feature alone will help you to get recognized as a speaker of Argentinian Spanish.

The intonation is also different, supposedly influenced by Italian. I don't know if I can describe it here, but listen for it when you listen to Argentinian Spanish.

Also, you should know that Argentinians have a different pronoun system from many other speakers of Spanish. The informal second person pronoun, instead of tú, is "vos". Vos also has different verb conjugations that go along with it. For example, the vos command form of the verb venir is "vení". (The tú form would be "ven".) As far as I know, though, vos forms are always regular, so it's relatively easy to learn.

As the previous answerer has mentioned, there are actually different accents in different parts of Argentina. Buenos Aires is particularly known for having a "porteño" accent.

Answer 2

If you mean with an argentinian accent in Spanish:
Just pronounce all the y's and ll's with a "sh" sound. This will DEFINITELY at least get you much closer to an argentian accent. Also they have a very particular entonation, specially at the end of each sentence, and when asking questions but I think it's kind of impossible to explain it through writting (it is a little bit like the Italian entonation).

If you mean with an argentinian accent in English:
I can't help you there. For me it's impossible to immitate it, besides all argentinians will speak English differently anyway.

Answer 3

The accent of Buenos Ayres is tough of understanding even for other Spanish speaking people. It is more a dialect than an accent, a Sicilian/Spanish mixture because of many Italians immigrants from Sicily came there in early 1900's. I'm Brazilian and understand Spanish but Buenos Ayrean is awful

Answer 4

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how to speak with an argentinan accent?
i'm currently learing spanish and i've notice how different argentinans speak differetly than mexicans or other spanish speakers. my question is how and where can i gain this accent without making a trip to argentina

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Well, you most speak spanish first =P...

Now, there are a lot of differences in the way argentinian people talk... For exaple:
Tu = Vos (you)
Tienes = Tenés (you have)

That is called "voceo"... They have a diference pronunciation.

Another thing:
Most of the hispanic people tal like this:
Yo (I) = "io"
But argentian people talk like this:
Yo = "sho"

Answer 7

I live around many Argentinans and Mexicans and the one thing that is different is the way they pronounce their "y" sound (ll or y). Mexicans pronounce it like our y (as in yodel), but Argentinans make an interesting "sh" sound for their ll's and y's. For example, a Mexican might say, "yo llevo..." (pronounced yo yehvo), but the Argentinan might sound more like, "sho shehvo". Other than that, they basically pronounce everything else the same.

Answer 8

Voice chat online with people from Argentina, watch movies from Argentina or give it up y hable como un pinche bolillo.

Answer 9

Probably mingle around more with Argentinan then

Answer 10

The Arts'n'Crafts girl is right...and they also instead of say "tu" they use "vos".