Best Ways to Learn Argentine Spanish in 2026

Argentina has about 46 million people, and Uruguay has about 3.5 million. Rioplatense Spanish is the Spanish of the Río de la Plata, around Buenos Aires and Montevideo. In both countries voseo is standard, so friends say vos sos where most Spanish speakers say tú eres. Rioplatense also pronounces y and ll with a sh sound, and its intonation was shaped by Italian immigrants. Buenos Aires slang, called lunfardo, adds words of its own. Most big Spanish apps teach Mexican, Latin American, or Spain Spanish, so this page gathers what we found made for Argentina.

For apps that cover Spanish as a whole, see our Spanish app comparison. Here are the apps, tutors, podcasts, and schools we found for Argentine Spanish, grouped by what they help you do. You can start with one and add another when you need it.

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What the Big Spanish Courses Teach

No big course app has a course made only for Argentine Spanish. Babbel teaches Mexican and European Spanish, Drops has Mexican and Castilian courses, Memrise has Spanish for Mexico and for Spain, and Pimsleur has a Latin American Spanish audio course. Mango has a Latin American Spanish course too. Duolingo has one Spanish course. Use them for shared Spanish grammar, and add the resources below for vos and Argentine words.

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Learn With People

A tutor can teach you and correct you while you speak. A language exchange gives you a practice partner, and you help with their language in return.

Podcasts, Newsletters, and Shows

• Argentalk is a podcast from Mariel Olivera with stories about Argentine culture and traditions, at an intermediate level. Its newsletter sends free PDF transcripts with a glossary of the hardest words.
• Easy Argentine Spanish is a podcast from Melany Di Leva with short episodes in Argentine Spanish, including voseo and lunfardo. The site adds transcripts and comprehension activities.
• Speak Spanish BA is a weekly newsletter from Cynthia Vilaplana about the Spanish of Buenos Aires, with a podcast and a conversation club.
• The Duolingo Spanish Podcast has episodes about Argentina, such as Costumbres: Asadoras in Argentina.
• Language Reactor shows two subtitles at once on Netflix and YouTube and lets you click any word for its meaning, so you can use it with Argentine series like Okupas and El marginal when they are on Netflix in your country.

Schools in Buenos Aires and a Dictionary

• Vamos Academy in Buenos Aires teaches the Rioplatense accent in small group classes from A1 to C1, in person and online.
• Academia Buenos Aires teaches Rioplatense Spanish with voseo, local pronunciation, and everyday expressions.
• The Diccionario del habla de los argentinos from the Argentine Academy of Letters explains words used in Argentina, including lunfardo, with real quotations as examples. It is written in Spanish, so it suits learners who can follow Spanish definitions.

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These counts cover menu-language choices, including script variants. Other apps’ counts and full lists come from their iPhone listings. Lesson explanations and other platforms may differ.

Other Apps We Looked At (8)

• Dreaming SpanishSpanish videos made so you can follow them, with a series on places to visit in Argentina and travel guides to Ushuaia and El Chaltén.
• LingopieStreaming shows with Spanish and English subtitles, including the Argentine shows Street Interviews and Maleta de Loco, whose hosts use Argentine slang.
• Qué OndaA Spanish vocabulary and phrase app with special lessons for Mexican, European, and Argentine Spanish, with pronunciation by native speakers and games to practice.
• ConjuGatoA Spanish verb app that includes Argentine voseo forms alongside its other conjugations.
• Porteño SpanishA phrasebook for Buenos Aires with a dictionary of lunfardo phrases, a study quiz, and audio.
• HelloTalkA language exchange app with a page of language partners in Argentina, so you can chat by text and voice with people who speak the Spanish you are learning.
• Easy SpanishStreet interviews on YouTube with Spanish and English subtitles, including Buenos Aires episodes like Exploring a Local Market in Buenos Aires.
• Expanish and ECELATwo more Spanish schools in Buenos Aires. Expanish offers evening and weekend classes.

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