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I have studied the language for years when I was younger and was conversational in it and had no such problem. Are you sure it's not the accent/pronunciation an

• lhorie 6y ago
  I spent a lot of time w/ latinos in college. Argentinian spanish does have some peculiarities that make it more difficult to understand than other countries' variants - most notoriously, 'y' sounds like throaty `j` (bordering on `sh`), and some vocabulary In my experience, latinos in school often end up congregating with other latinos and they're usually able to get past the linguistic differences fairly quickly (and the linguistic idiosyncrasies becomes a recurring topic of conversation), so I think the concern about difficulty to communicate doesn't apply as much for the native spanish speaker (since they can just switch to english to speak to a non-native-spanish speaker)
  • soldehierro 6y ago
    Rioplatense Spanish has a few different sounds, sure, and Argentine slang can be fairly diffuclt, but it's absolutely ludricrous to think that an Argentine would have difficulties communicating in Spanish with another Spanish speaker, native or not.
    • lhorie 6y ago
      Yeah, I wouldn't go as far as say that it impedes communication, but it's more common than one might expect for a random conversation to derail into a conversation about dialect differences.