One of the differences between Argentine Spanish and many other Spanish dialects (I’m not sure if all others) has to do with the use of a different group of adverbs to express location.
In Spanish we have three options which refer to the relative position of something according to who is near it: near me, near you and far from both of us and which can roughly be translated as here, there, over there respectively.
Here | Aquí | Acá |
There | Ahí | Ahí |
Over there | Allí | Allá |
Para hacerla corta, in Argentina, you’ll only hear the words in the last column.
Happy Spanish learning,
Until next time,
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