Argentine Spanish: A Guide to Speaking Like an Argentine: The Complete Lessons

If you are planning a vacation to, going to study abroad or plan to live in Buenos Aires, this book is for you. You will learn not only Spanish, but all the Argentine variations that are different from the Spanish from Spain or Mexico.

This is a book that brings Argentine Spanish to you. In addition to learning Argentine Spanish, developing and growing your grammar and vocabulary you will be learning the way in which “Porteños” (people from Buenos Aires) speak.

It is well known that Argentines (and more specifically people from Buenos Aires) speak a kind of Spanish that includes many different variations: “What is VOS?”, “What does SOS mean?”, etc.

This is not a book about “slang” even though you can find some here, it is a book that will teach you proper “Spanish Rioplatense” (the name for the Spanish surrounding the Rio del Plata including Buenos Aires and some parts of Uruguay) putting focus on some very typical Argentine idioms and words.

You will find exercises after almost every lesson with the answers at the end.

The aim of this book is to keep everything as simple as possible. Concepts are presented as straightforward as they can be. It is designed for you to have an easy reference to any concept you are stuck on or in need of review. Everything written in Spanish is provided as well in English, so you understand why or how certain words are used.

This book is a collection of our Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced books. It contains 60 lessons that cover everything you need to know to start talking Argentine Spanish fast.
What is included?

Beginner

1THE PRONUNCIATION IN BUENOS AIRES
2Vos
3Greetings and Introductions
4Verbo Ser
5Artículos
6The verb “estar”
7The present tense
8The verb “Haber” – There is/There are
9The verb “Tener”- To have
10Preguntas
11The Future Tense
12Demonstrative Adjectives
13How to Define posetion
14The Verb “Gustar”: Do You Like?
15Irregular Verbs in The Present Tense
16Reflexive Verbs
17Common Expressions in Present Tense
18The Past Tense “Pretérito Indefinido”
19The Past Tense “Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto”
20Irregulars in the “Pretérito Indefinido” Past Tense
21Very Irregulars In the “Pretérito Indefinido” Past Tense
22Ya vs Todavía
23Time Expressions
24Basic Prepositions in Spanish

Intermediate

1The Verb “Soler”
2The Present Progressive
3Gustar, Caer Bien, Parecer
4Symtomps and Illness
5The Direct and Indirect Object
6How To Replace The Indirect and Direct Object In the Same Phrase
7The Imperfect Tense
8Using the Imperfect and Indefinite Past Tenses Together
9Connectors
10The Impersonal “SE”
11How to Identify
12Vocabulary Related to Home/Apartments
13Comparisons
14Por Vs. Para
15The Simple Future Tense
16The Simple Conditional Tense
17Giving Orders - The Imperative Tense
18The Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto – The Past Before The Past
19Reading Song Lyrics In Spanish
20Shopping in a Clothes Store – Vocabulary
21 The Verbs “Venir-ir” and “Traer-Llevar”

Advanced

1 Verbs of Change
2 Ser and Estar in the Past
3 The Subjunctive Mood in The Present
4 Subjunctive Mood – Opinions & Doubts
5Subjunctive With Emotions
6Subjunctive + Time Expressions
7Subjunctive + Para que
8Subjunctive + Recommendations
9Songs to Learn The Subjunctive
10Perfect Subjunctive
11Imperfect Subjunct
12Pluperfect Subjunctive
13“Should Have/Could Have Done…”
14Ojalá
15The Future Perfect
16Futuro con valor Probabilístico
17Relative Pronouns
18 Aunque
19Condicional Perifrástico
20Advanced Song Lyrics
21 Some Argentine Vocabulary