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Argentine Spanish: A Learner's Guide

Argentine Spanish is one of the most distinctive varieties in the Spanish-speaking world — voseo, the sh-sound for ll and y, the Italian inheritance from a century of immigration, the legacy of Lunfardo, and a rich literary and musical tradition. A reference for learners who want to inhabit it.

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Bacán — A Word That Crossed Continents

Bacán began in nineteenth-century southern Italy, crossed the Atlantic with Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires, traveled north into Chile and Peru and Colombia, and picked up slightly different meanings in each country it reached.

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Che — The Word at the Heart of Argentine Spanish

Che runs through Argentine speech like a thread. It is not a noun, not a verb, not an adjective. It carries no grammatical weight. And yet it is the single word that most identifies an Argentine to other Spanish speakers — and one of them was named after it.

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Why Argentina Speaks Differently (And What Italians Have to Do With It)

Argentine Spanish carries a story most Spanish learners never hear — a story about six million Italians who arrived in Argentina between 1880 and 1930, and the linguistic inheritance they left in their grandchildren's mouths.

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Review: Spanish Voices 1 & 2

There is a moment in every Spanish learner's progress when the coursebook audio stops being useful — when the textbook voice, slow and clear, has given everything it can. Lingualism's two-volume Spanish Voices arrives for exactly that moment. On the books that take the next step seriously.

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Review: The DLI Spanish Phone Conversations

Three hundred unscripted recordings in six Latin American dialects, free, and one of the more honest listening resources on the open internet.